On February 17, 2025, the Head of the Department, Prof. Dr. Sadiq Hussein Bakhi, received a delegation from the Human Rights Commission, which included Prof. Dr. Ahmed Thabet Abdulkarim and legal advisor Mohammed Qasim Rashid. This meeting comes within the framework of enhancing cooperation between the two sides in the fields of training and development, which contributes to spreading the culture of human rights and enhancing community awareness in academic and administrative institutions.

During the meeting, the prospects of joint cooperation were discussed, including ways to organize specialized training workshops targeting professors and employees from various academic and administrative disciplines, with the aim of enhancing knowledge of human rights values and ways to apply them in daily life. The meeting also discussed the establishment of workshops and qualification programs aimed at training employees on the concepts of justice and equality, in addition to enhancing the ability to deal with human rights issues in a professional and objective manner.

In this context, Prof. Dr. Sadiq Hussein Bakhi stressed the importance of this cooperation in consolidating the culture of human rights within academic institutions, pointing to the need to promote this culture through various training programs that reach all categories of university staff. He praised the role of the OHCHR in spreading community awareness and providing effective support for the implementation of human rights principles, expressing his aspiration to expand the scope of cooperation between the two sides in the future.

For their part, members of the OHCHR delegation expressed their full readiness to provide the necessary support for the success of this initiative, by providing the necessary expertise and resources to implement joint training programs, in addition to facilitating the establishment of specialized courses that meet the needs of all categories of beneficiaries. They also pointed out the importance of sustainable cooperation between academic institutions and the OHCHR in preparing awareness programs aimed at improving society's understanding of human rights.

This initiative comes within the framework of the department's continuous efforts to keep pace with the directives of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the University Presidency, and to apply strategies that contribute to consolidating sustainable partnerships with relevant institutions. These steps are also part of the department's vision to enhance awareness of human rights issues, in order to achieve the common goals of building an academic and administrative community with a deep understanding of its rights and duties, which contributes to creating a more interactive and cooperative academic and administrative environment in facing contemporary challenges related to human rights and their protection, thus building a society that is more aware and appreciative of its own rights and the rights of others.