Definition:
Definition of the Center: A governmental center belong to the University of Duhok, non-profit works to study gender issues in the Kurdish society in an objective form to reveal the dilemmas of issues that prevent equality and social justice between social class and categories through its activities in all fields and work to prepare a specialized staffs in gender that can work in the field with gender issues.
Center's objectives:
Activity axes with the mechanism of work or implementation:
A- Study and review the curriculum and programs at all stages and work on the subjects that ensure understanding of equality and non-violence between students
B- Intensive training courses for all faculty in all educational institutions on the social type
To ensure that students are not discriminated against on the basis ofgender, age, race or religion as well as to ensure that the groups of traditional culture that fuel discrimination and violence are not repeated
Training health workers in the anti-discrimination service on the basis of gender
B- Working with health personnel to spread health awareness between males and females about health, reproductive health, mental health of both sexes and how to maintain them and enjoy good health to be the measure (longevity + amount of disease)
C- Collaborative studies between the center and the health services on health issues and how to address them by scientific means
Working with local and international institutions and organizations to conduct training courses for women to enter the economic community as an effective contribution of women to engage in the development of the country as well as as a means of reducing women's poverty and helping them enjoy economic independence, which is an important means of reducing economic violence against women and reducing women's policies by society.
B- Review economic policies with economic experts from economists at the university with the aim of improving them which support women to access resources.
Spreading political awareness among women through activities and activities to build competencies and leadership abilities
(b) Working with women's organizations through training their staffs in leadership, decision making, mediation and negotiation and how to bring about change through empowerment programs.
C- Conducting studies on the reality of Kurdish women and their struggle in all the times of the Kurdish struggle in achieving their national goals because women were and still are an integral part of the Kurdish struggle.
Launching programs that protect the family from family decay and family disintegration
b- Working with the courts to prepare young people who are coming to marry through training courses organized by both parties
C- cooperation and coordination with the Directorate of combating violence against women through conducting studies and evaluating performance and empowering those working in such centers
D- Empowering married couples to prevent social dilemmas in accordance with programs organized by the Center, the courts of conditions and other institutions concerned to spread awareness about the healthy and peaceful family and to be the focus from which the proper establishment begins
e- Working with organizations and concerned authorities to provide social and psychological support to women victims of sexual violence as well as to males who have lost family members and suffered from war.
f- Caring for women, whether in the countryside or in urban areas, as housewives, workers or people with special needs in a cooperation with Social affairs Directorate.
Ms. DILEEN SARDAR ZUHDI AL-NOORI
Director of Gender Studies Center
