To promote respect for the rights of women and the protection of minorities
Hammurabi Human Rights Organization held a scientific workshop at Al-Iraqia University- College of Arts
In order to promote respect and to ensure the rights of women and ways to confront violence and discrimination against them and its impact on society, development and stability in Iraq, as well as to ensure the legal protection of minority rights and their prospects for participation in public and political life in Iraq and their role in achieving progress and stability,
Hammurabi Human Rights Organization held a scientific workshop on February 26th, 2025, on campus and in one of the halls of the College of Arts.
The workshop addressed two themes, one of which was about the rights of women and ways to confront violence.
In his lecture Dr. Mohammad Turki Al-Obaidi of the Ministry of Justice focused on the definition and sorts of violence against women and its impact according to ages.
Dr. Turki explained the international legal basis for confronting this violence providing an explanation on the development of international standards to guarantee human and women’s rights.
The second theme dealt with the rights of Iraqi religious minorities between aspiration to live together and the reality of the societal threat.
Professor Hasson Abboud Muhybis of the College of Arts at the Al-Iraqia University, presented an analytical vision of the reality of minorities in Iraq and the rights and constitutional violations towards them, reviewing the political, economic and social reality of minorities after the year 2003.
Participants in the mentioned scientific workshop received information, facts and analyses about the reality of Iraqi women and ways to empower them in the face of violence, marginalization and discrimination.
They also received an introduction to Iraqi minorities, their reality and conditions, challenges they face, ways to protect and the importance of respecting religious, ethnic and cultural diversity and its impact on the stability and development of Iraq.
The workshop, which was attended by more than eighty male and female students, witnessed a wide response to the presented topics.
An interactive discussion was held between the attendees and the students, opening an intellectual area for discussion on ways to confront violence against women, enhance the concepts of empowering capabilities and qualifying them for political and societal participation, enhance awareness and ways to defend their rights and activate laws limiting the practice of violence against them, and the importance of setting policies and establishing institutions that enhance their pioneering role in building and stabilizing the country.
The students demonstrated their responsiveness and interest in the importance of protecting Iraqi minorities and preserving religious and ethnic diversity in Iraq through promoting national identity and respecting other specificities, stressing the need to focus on building national identity and to improve legislation and policies that guarantee the rights of all Iraqis equally, without discrimination, to prevent the migration of minorities, which today represents a serious challenge that undermines their existence and threatens to end demographic diversity in Iraq.
It is to be mentioned that the workshop is part of the project to create a culture of human rights in Iraq, implemented by Hammurabi Human Rights Organization in partnership with John Paul II Foundation and funded by the Italian Foundation for Development.
