The Human Rights Unit is one of the units of the College of Science/University of Baghdad, in light of the organizational structure of the colleges affiliated with the University of Baghdad/Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and its affiliation is with the Assistant Dean for Scientific Affairs.
One of the unit’s tasks is to teach the subjects Human Rights and Democracy, in accordance with the Ministry’s recent instructions to limit the teaching of the two subjects to the first stage only, so the subject of Human Rights will be taught for the first course, and the subject of Democracy for the second course, starting from the academic year 2011/2012.
One of the duties of the Human Rights Unit is to enhance the culture of human rights among the students. In the first course, lectures were provided that were limited to this period after it was a full year, in which the student studies the concept of human rights, including definitions, descriptions, types, and categories, and the historical development of human rights in the ancient civilizations of Iraq, and ancient civilizations. The other, and human rights in divine laws, the focus was on the Islamic conception of human rights, as well as the study of human rights in modern societies, and the statement of the legal sources of these rights, and also the International Bill of Human Rights, and in international charters and organizations, and intellectual, social, economic and cultural freedoms, and the study of non-governmental organizations. .
As for the subject of democracy, the unit’s tasks are to teach the concept of freedom and its general forms, the historical development of democracies and public freedoms in their three stages, ancient, middle, and modern, focus on the Islamic era, explain the basic guarantees for the success of public freedoms, and study the concept of democracy in terms of definition, principles, components, elements, means of practice, and general conditions. For the success of democratic systems, elections, their conditions, means and methods for conducting them, and the study of pressure groups, in addition to the instructions issued by the Ministry in teaching the subject of integrity and administrative corruption.
Human rights subject, freedom and democracy subject
M. Ansam Faiq Abdel Razzaq
M. Human Rights Unit