Under the sponsorship of Assistant Professor Dr. Majid Asghar Muhammad Al-Nawab, Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Basra, and in cooperation with the Women’s Empowerment Unit at the College of Nursing at the University of Basra and under the supervision of the Nursing Basics Branch at the college, our college hosted a cultural celebration on the occasion of International Women’s Day, which falls on (March 8), in which the teacher, Dr. Afkar Fadel Karim, lectured. Head of the Community Health Branch and teacher, Dr. Fatima Jassim Muhammad. The symposium targeted fourth-year female students to empower and urge them on how to deal with the challenges and difficulties that women will face after graduation and how students can rely on themselves.
On the other hand, Dr. Fatima Jassim Muhammad said, we find that women play a prominent and positive role in dealing with these situations, far from violence, in building peace. They maintain the social order and follow flexible methods in their humanitarian work with all skill and love for work.
For her part, the teacher, Dr. Afkar Fadel Karim, explained that celebrating International Women’s Day is not only to thank women for what they do, but also to demand more of their rights that are still deprived of them in some societies, and to call for the need to stop the violence practiced against women in all its forms. This is the true honor for women in all societies.
