The Coordination Unit of Women’s Empowerment and the Department of Biology at the College of Science, in cooperation with the Center for Women’s Studies at the University of Baghdad, have organized a panel discussion on the occasion of the campaign to combat violence against women on the International Human Rights Day, in the presence of a number of students, professors and those concerned with this subject. The workshop aimed to introduce the forms, effects and manifestations of violence against women and to develop measures to eliminate all forms of gender-based violence in order to achieve equality and respect for human dignity, by adopting a comprehensive approach based on addressing its various forms through prevention, tracking and punishing perpetrators, and protecting and caring for victims.
The first lecturer was delivered by the lecturer Sinan Salah Rashid entitled (The Role of the University in Combating Violence against Women) and Assist. Lecturer Bayda Abdullah gave a lecturer entitled (Resist for Life) that included a review of the forms of domestic violence and the most important initiatives to reduce this phenomenon, including the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and other international instruments related to this subject, indicating the need to organize awareness programs on the seriousness of this phenomenon and reduce it, and the formulation of national plans and strategies to eliminate this phenomenon.
