The Dean of the Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad, Professor Dr. Kareem Hassan Alwan, along with the Head of the Human Rights Unit, Assistant Professor Dr. Inas Dhia Hadi, received a delegation from the Independent High Commission for Human Rights to discuss prospects for cooperation between the two parties.

The Dean provided a detailed explanation of the Center and its scientific approach, which has recently focused on climate change and sustainability to keep pace with global efforts to protect the environment and human rights. He emphasized that sustainability and human rights are deeply intertwined; sustainable development cannot be achieved without respecting and protecting human rights. The United Nations 2030 Agenda seeks to integrate human rights into all its goals to ensure that no one is left behind, focusing on the right to development, equality, non-discrimination, participation, and transparency. This places human beings at the center and at the heart of sustainable development, which encompasses social, economic, and environmental aspects that work together to achieve the well-being of current and future generations.

The Dean also provided an overview of the Center’s work, highlighting the importance of human rights and their deep connection to sustainable development. The Commission’s delegation presented an overview of its operational mechanisms, including the preparation of annual national reports on human rights within government institutions. These reports are submitted to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the Supreme Judicial Council, and subsequently to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Respect for human rights has become a cornerstone in understanding the role of businesses in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring that national plans for implementing these goals align with national action plans for implementing the guiding principles.

Both sides agreed to organize workshops, seminars, and conferences focused on strengthening human rights principles, conducting research and studies on the subject, and disseminating a culture of human rights training to all government institutions and agencies through the Commission’s publications and education departments, as well as through international trainers in this field.

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