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The Environmental Research Center at the University of Technology, as part of the center’s women’s empowerment activities, held a symposium entitled “The Role of Community Institutions in Reducing the Phenomenon of Violence Against Women”

She gave the lecture at the University of Baghdad, College of Veterinary Medicine, in which she explained what violence is, as it is used all over the world as a tool to influence others. It is also considered one of the matters of interest to law and culture, as they both seek to suppress the phenomenon of violence and prevent its spread. She touched on the history of violence and domestic violence and that it takes many forms and manifestations. Violence against women and its forms is considered a dangerous scourge that threatens the entity of the family and society and has serious repercussions on the health and safety of moral and cultural societies and the building of generations and causes economic, moral, health and sometimes human losses if it is carried out too far. Therefore, institutions should Governmental and non-governmental communities contribute to limiting the spread of this phenomenon by all legal and cultural means.
The symposium concluded with the director of the center, Professor Dr. Zainab Bahaa Muhammad, awarding a certificate of appreciation to the lecturer in appreciation of her efforts.

Under the patronage of the President of the University of Technology, Prof. Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Hassan Al-Ghabban, the Office of the Assistant President of the University for Scientific Affairs / Department of Chemical, Biological and Radiological Safety and Security, in cooperation with the Environmental Research Center, the Center for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, the Women’s Empowerment Unit, the Center for Continuing Education, and the Primary Health Care Sector / Rusafa Health Center at the University of Technology, coinciding with the celebrations of the Day of International Women's Day, March 8.

On Sunday, 3/10, in the Al-Salam Hall at the Center for Continuing Education, a workshop was held entitled “Early Detection of Breast Cancer.” The workshop aimed to spread awareness to reduce the risks of breast cancer through an explanatory presentation of the symptoms of the disease and treatment, and the most important screening centers in Baghdad on the Rusafa and Karkh sides. During a session chaired by Asst Prof. Dr. Azhar Mahmoud Halim, and Dr. Naqaa Muhammad Hassan, a gynecologist and obstetrician from the university’s health center, gave an awareness lecture in which she urged the necessity of conducting periodic examinations for women for early detection of the disease and the most important risk factors that can be avoided to help reduce the risk of infection. The supervising committee from our center distributed cards bearing the slogan of the Breast Cancer Campaign, or what is known as the pink ribbon symbol, and a supportive sentence written on them that helps motivate periodic examination and increase women’s health education regarding the fight against breast cancer, which is part of a series of social support concerned with women’s health.

The lecturer, Dr. Mohammed Muayad Taha, was awarded the title of Human Rights Ambassador for the year 2020 by Al-Araqah Foundation, the German Board for Training and Consulting, the General Syndicate of Iraqi Trainers, and the Arab African Training Forum, in appreciation of his presentation in upholding human rights and supporting the working class with food and therapeutic supplies in the urban roaming stage to prevent the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the attached certificate.