The computer engineering department academic staff member (Latifa A. Dawood) participated in the conference on Iraqi Women’s Vision on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030, in Baghdad, 16 September 2019 held Under the patronage of His Excellency the Prime Minister Mr. Adel Abdul Mahdi, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in Cooperation with The Ministry of Planning (MoP).

The conference discussed the possible entry points to strengthen women empowerment and highlighted current issues including achieving gender equality, discrimination and violence against women and girls, unpaid care-work and domestic violence, assuring the participation of Iraqi women in all various life aspects such as education, political participation, health, social protection, decision-making. The above could be aquired by following scientific methodology to promote the gender equality and push up process of measuring the progress in the situation of Iraqi women.