Prof. Dr. Nidhal Hanash Shabar, a lecturer at the college of education for humanities (Ibn Rushd) chaired a workshop on job violence against women attended by a number of postgraduate students and faculty members. The workshop aimed to raise the awareness of the community about the rights of working women in Iraq and to highlight some cases of job violence confronted by women in order to find the appropriate solutions and remedies. The workshop included the introduction of women’s rights in communities with different religions, sects and patterns directed against working women, as well as a presentation of international laws and regulations and those related to Islamic law on the rights of women in general and female employees in particular, and included a series of topics, including the definition of violence and its types, with a reference of the holy verses of Qur’an and the prophetic hadiths.
The lecturer presented a number of recommendations, the most prominent of which were the need for religious, legal and professional culture of women’s rights and their protection from domestic and functional violence by enacting local and international laws and conventions supporting human rights, as well as the activation of the role played by civil society organizations at the local and international level also that of media and satellite channels to make programs addressing job bullying against women.
