The United State' Position on the Human Rights Situation in Qatar between 2011-2021

Abstract

Objectives: The study aimed to demonstrate the United States' position on the human rights situation in Qatar for the years 2011-2021.

Method: The study used the decision-making approach to track the American position towards the human rights situation in Qatar, and it also used  the systems analysis approach to demonstrate the nature of the Qatari political system in terms of inputs and outputs, and reflect on  the position of human rights and its effects on the internal and external environment of the system.

Results: The study results showed that the State of Qatar had immunized and integrated human rights in Qatar's Constitution, legislation and laws. In practice, however, civil liberties, freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of the press and publishing houses have been restricted. State laws establishe the right to form political organizations, political action and guaratantees the safety of practitioners of political action.

With regard to the United States' position on human rights in the State of Qatar, the study concluded that American reports were primarily based on individual cases of human rights violations pertinent to  freedom of expression, prisoners of conscience, arbitrary detention, the right to peaceful demonstration and obstacles to the activities of civil society organizations, This is beyond attention to cases of gross violations of human rights related to aggression, occupation, financing of terrorism, the use of mercenaries and all violations of public and humanitarian international law.

Conclusion: The study recommends that  reports of violations of religious freedoms  were linked to and based on  secular American-Western standards (separation of religion and the State). This enatils  spreading Western values and  and posing a threat to  Arab-Islamic culture.  The study also highlights the notion that the United States is constantly trying to politically use human rights issues on the international scene to intervene in other countries and transform it into an instrument of blackmail and pressure on some countries   to justify the notion of humanitarian intervention, Its strengths and influence are harnessed to influence the United Nations Organization to serve its agenda and to adapt its decisions to its interests and those of its Western allies.