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Division of Women's Affairs

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Women's Affairs Division at our university can be depicted metaphorically as a fountain from which women are watered allowing them to strengthen their sense of ability and to determine their strategic aims and potential achievements in their lives. It could also be portrayed as the place where a comprehensive process of change occurs with a view to raising the societal status of women through state and society assistance and back up. Furthermore, the politics and teamwork are underscored to enable women to set their own agenda and goals, and expand their abilities to control their lives inside and outside the home. The Division also endeavors to enhance women's sense of values and their right to access resources and to offer them beneficial opportunities through the identification of priorities in our work tasks, the most important of which is what falls within the national strategic plan launched by the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, where they are introduced to their legal rights and obtain community support that would permit them to exercise those rights, through awareness campaigns about their rights, and societal mobilization of support, and the effective implementation of legal rights, and on a large scale encourages legal qualification. The enactment of laws that reinforce women's rights through their proper definition, correction of any right violation via use of the judicial system, in addition to providing women non-traditional training opportunities, supporting women participation in the labor market of working age, and maintaining the social fabric and cohesion through role integration between men and women for the purpose of setting up a strong society.

Vision

Women preparation for sustainable development achievement in a country that guarantees their constitutional rights in their entirety in addition to enabling them to deal with challenges and enhance their role in all fields in order to achieve full protection and provide economic and social opportunities that enable them to upgrade their capabilities to raise the status of the country, provided that they do not break away from the values of the Islamic religion, customs and traditions. Women preparation for sustainable development achievement in a country that guarantees their constitutional rights in their entirety in addition to enabling them to deal with challenges and enhance their role in all fields in order to achieve full protection and provide economic and social opportunities that enable them to upgrade their capabilities to raise the status of the country, provided that they do not break away from the values of the Islamic religion, customs and traditions.

Message

Women's acquisition and development of skills and knowledge to participate effectively in decision-making and their impact on its strategic formulation and activation to fulfill the requirements of the country at the current and a future stage.

Goals

1/ Deploying efforts to increase the percentage of women leaders by shedding light on women's competencies and achievements. 2/ Developing the scientific capabilities of women in higher education by working to facilitate and support their participation in local and international conferences. 3/ Expanding women's participation in economic development through project promotion. 4/Securing the necessary back-up from the international community and local and international organizations for the purpose of contribution to the implementation of United Nations resolutions on women. 5/ Raising community awareness of the status of women and their rights to combat violence by organizing more courses and conducting research with specialized centers. 6/ Improving women image in all media visual, audio and read its forms. 7/ Honoring creative and prominent Iraqi women in their field of specialization through creative awards or making documentary films about their achievements. 8/ Backing-up young female researchers who carry out sound and reliable research at an early age in the study phase through specialized committees that select distinguished works to buttress them.

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