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Official blog from the Law Library of Congress
Find the Law Library on:
Constitution
- Constitutional Authorities (external link) (Qatar. Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- WIPO Lex: Constitution of Qatar (external link) (World Intellectual Property Organization)
- International Constitutional Law: Qatar Index (external link) (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) offers English translation and Background Note
Executive
- Monarchy; Prime Minister; Council of Ministers; see Amiri Diwan (external link) official government portal
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (external link)
Judicial
- COURTS: Courts of First Instance, Appeal, and Cassation; Administrative Court and Constitutional Court; see The Judiciary (external link) (Qatar. Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Legislative
- PARLIAMENT: Majlis al-Shura [Advisory Council]
- Al Meezan (external link) (Qatar Ministry of Justice) legal portal containing laws and regulations from 1961 to present
- GLIN Archive: Qatar [2002-2010] (Law Library of Congress) includes summaries; full text is accessible from a Reading Room
- FAOLEX: Qatar (external link) (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) database of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture, and renewable natural resources.
- NATLEX: Qatar (external link) (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security, and related human rights
- PARLINE: Qatar (external link) (Inter-Parliamentary Union)
- RefWorld Legal Information: Qatar (external link) (UNHCR)
- WIPO Lex: Qatar (external link) (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Legal Guides
- Global Legal Information Catalog: Qatar (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
- Global Legal Monitor: Qatar (Law Library of Congress)
- Law Library of Congress Search: Qatar (Library of Congress)
- Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
- Foreign Official Gazette Database: Qatar (external link) (Center for Research Libraries)
- Update: Qatar’s Legal System Governance and Business (external link) (GlobaLex)
- World Legal Information Institute: Qatar (external link) (WorldLII)
- World Legal Materials from Middle East: Qatar (external link) (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
General Sources
- Country Studies: Persian Gulf States (Library of Congress) January 1993; includes Qatar
- Maps: Qatar (Library of Congress)
- World Digital Library: Qatar (Library of Congress/UNESCO)
- BBC News: Qatar Country Profile (external link)
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Qatar (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- Consular Information Sheet: Qatar (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Information: Qatar (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Qatar (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Fact Sheet: U.S. Relations With Qatar (U.S. Dept. of State)
- FAO Country Profiles: Qatar (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
- A Guide to Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations: Qatar (U.S. Dept. of State. Office of the Historian)
- Human Rights in Qatar (external link) (Amnesty International)
- International Religious Freedom Reports: Qatar (U.S. Dept. of State)
- Middle East Studies: Qatar (external link) (Columbia University)
- NATIONAL LIBRARY: Qatar National Library (external link)
- NEWS: Al Jazira (external link)
- U.S. Embassy, Doha (U.S. Dept. of State)
- World Factbook: Qatar (external link) (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
- World Health Organization: Qatar (external link)
For more information on Qatar, see:
Last Updated: 10/13/2017
