Within the framework of the government program to implement the sustainable development goals and in accordance with the specificity of Iraqi society, the Media and Government Communication Division, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit at the College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, sponsored by the Deanship of the College, organized the symposium entitled “Gender and Qualitative Justice.” The symposium, which was held in the college’s Al-Kindi Hall on Thursday, the twenty-second of this month, was attended by the college’s assistant dean for scientific affairs, assistant professor Dr. Muhammad Basil Ismail, and was presented by the college’s teaching assistant, Roa’a Bdewi Hamza. The symposium aimed to raise awareness of the concept of gender and social roles in an effort to achieve a development society in which men and women play different roles in a balanced manner that applies the standards of gender justice and the psychological nature of each gender, and to include women by empowering them on several levels to perform leadership roles that enable them to truly integrate into society. The symposium included a number of topics, including the concept of gender, types of social roles, and an introduction to gender justice and the tools for achieving it at the societal and political levels, by calling for the empowerment of women by eliminating forms of discrimination and violence practiced against them. The symposium concluded with recommendations calling for the need to adopt legal legislation that guarantees the provision of protection and qualitative justice for women, and to increase their representation in decision-making positions and membership in parties, unions, and civil society organizations, in accordance with political empowerment tools.
