{"id":20379,"date":"2025-08-19T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/?p=20379"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:41:17","slug":"the-womens-affairs-unit-at-the-college-is-holding-a-panel-discussion-as-part-of-qualitative-and-educational-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/?p=20379&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Women\u2019s Affairs Unit at the college is holding a panel discussion as part of qualitative and educational programs."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Under the patronage of the Dean of the Administrative Technical College\/Kufa, Assistant Professor Dr. Dhurgham Abdul Al-Abdali, the Women\u2019s Affairs Unit at the college organized a panel discussion as part of qualitative and educational programs aimed at raising women\u2019s awareness about the importance and necessity of participation in elections and voting, in order to create a future generation of female voters. The event was titled \u201cThe Impact of Contemporary Political Issues on Women\u2019s Role and Electoral Rights\u201d, and was delivered by Assistant Professor Ahmed Raad Mohammed, a lecturer in the Department of Business Administration Technologies, on August 18, 2025.\n\nThe session addressed the importance of women\u2019s political participation as one of the main pillars in building fair democratic societies, where their electoral rights represent a key means to voice their opinions and contribute to shaping public policies. However, contemporary political issues\u2014with their internal and external challenges and crises\u2014cast shadows on women\u2019s status in political life and directly or indirectly affect the exercise of their electoral rights.\n\nThe discussion also touched on major contemporary political issues impacting women, including: internal conflicts and wars, democratic transitions and political reforms, the rise of extremist ideological and political movements, as well as globalization and the influence of international organizations.\n\nThe session highlighted mechanisms to enhance women\u2019s roles and electoral rights in light of these political issues, such as:\n\nDeveloping laws and legislation.\n\nElectoral education and awareness through media campaigns and training programs targeting women.\n\nEmpowering women economically and socially.\n\nIn conclusion, the lecturer emphasized that the impact of contemporary political issues on women\u2019s role and electoral rights is twofold: it may either present an opportunity for their advancement and empowerment or become an obstacle to exercising their rights. Hence, building sustainable political awareness, coupled with legislative and institutional reforms, is the best way to ensure an active role for women in political life and to consolidate their participation in decision-making. <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Under the patronage of the Dean of the Administrative Technical College\/Kufa, Assistant Professor Dr. Dhurgham Abdul Al-Abdali, the Women\u2019s Affairs Unit at the college organized a panel discussion as part of qualitative and educational programs aimed at raising women\u2019s awareness about the importance and necessity of participation in elections and voting, in order to create … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,102,106,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-102","category-106","category--en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20384,"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions\/20384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cku.atu.edu.iq\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}