News published on December 21, 2024
On December 18, 2024, the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization held a scientific workshop in the College of Education’s History Department at Mustansiriyah University. The workshop was held in the conference hall under the patronage of Dr. Tariq Hashim Abboud, Dean of Mustansiriyah University’s College of Education, under the slogan “Human Rights: The Goal and Equality,” and dealt with two main axes. The first included women’s rights, violence against them and its impact on society, addressed by Dr. In‘am Hussein Ahmed, while the second included children’s rights, their content and guarantees, presented by Dr. Muhammad Turki Al-Ubaidi. The workshop was managed and the dialogue organized by Dr. Fahd Amsallam Zaghir, Head of the College of Education’s History Department.
This workshop was attended by approximately 100 male and female students, along with a number of professors from the College of Education. In it, the researchers explained women’s role in development, stability and community building, and that the escalation of violence against them carries with it great challenges and risks for the entire society and for the peace-building and reconciliation process, as well as creating a peaceful generation free of complexes. The same applies to the issue of respecting children’s rights, and creating an environment and atmosphere of reassurance in developing their talents and guiding their behavior, while involving children in armed conflicts opens the door to depriving them of their rights to education, health and exercising their rights to care, rehabilitation and a stable life. The workshop concluded that a lack of interest in women and children will have negative effects on the future of Iraqi socially, economically and scientifically. The workshop’s organization was supervised by Dr. Sayf Adnan, Coordinator of the Human Rights Awareness Project, which is being implemented in partnership with the John Paul II Foundation, as well as Engineer Mohammed Essam, the project’s financial director, both from the Hammurabi Organization.