On October 15 and 16, 2025, at the Coral Palace Hotel in Al-Jadriya, and at the special invitation of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Mrs. Pascale Warda, President of the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, Ambassador of Peace, International Advisor to the International Group of Women for Peace, and former Minister of Migration and Displacement, lectured at a women's empowerment workshop titled "A Platform for Dialogue, Exchange of Experiences, and Reflection on the Essential Role of Women in Promoting Unity, Social Cohesion, and Sustainable Peace." She presented her topic: "The Role of Women in Promoting Unity, Social Cohesion, and Sustainable Peace."
Mrs. Pascale began by thanking the United Nations Development Program for the importance of the topic and delving into the reality of Iraqi women and the repercussions of the attacks suffered by women and girls, in light of the clear codification of hatred against women, with discrimination based on gender being a blatant violation that has even affected a woman's right to motherhood. Meanwhile, the recent "amendments" to Personal Status Law No. 188 of 1959 should be called sabotage, not amendment, as they abolish all acquired rights in favor of women, such as ownership and decision-making. And her opinion on divorce and even the abolition of her right to motherhood over her children until they reach puberty, which is essentially a natural right that no law in the world can infringe upon, as a natural right of the mother, in whose body and psyche men and women form their biological existence, including their nervous and psychological aspects.
Anthropology cannot provide a better environment for the development of the human person than the "factory" of the mother's womb, which is equipped with everything required to form the individual's humanity over the required period. Then, by raising her, he begins to crystallize his being as a person, continuing to develop this through general education, which is of utmost importance to him, to emphasize the importance of preserving his inalienable human dignity and
indivisible human rights, before anything else, and not to deny them and undermine them, as we see in our present Iraqi state, immersed in the chaos of "politicians" who are far removed from any real political action and do not distinguish between times of peace and war. Rather, they create conflicts at all costs, and the minds of their fanatics are never without obstacles in the way of any attempt at progress. Please read the lecture in the section Articles at the bottom of the page:
The UN staff and the audience praised the depth of the lecture, its content, and its importance to women in particular and society in general.