Diversity, equity, inclusion, and human rights on campus are the responsibility of everyone on campus. Aswan University launched a Social Solidarity Unit. This unit was established according to a decision of the Supreme Council of Universities in its session held on August 15, 2020, in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Solidarity. This unit provides consultations, programs, training courses and awareness seminars related to diversity, equality, inclusion, and human rights.
One of the most important activities carried out by the Social Solidarity Unit at Aswan University, which calls for equal inclusion, is the “People Like Us“ initiative to integrate students with disabilities into the university community.
For more details about its achievements 2022 /2023 click here
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Aswan University has also a special unit “Anti-women violence” for protecting women’s rights and combating violence against them.
The unit carried out many activities that its role is to raise awareness of women’s rights and their role and impact on society.
Among these activities:
- Implementation of an educational-religious awareness day in the hall of Prof. Ahmed Fawzy, Faculty of Education, and this day included the following:-
- A lecture on the role of women in the Divine religions, it addressed the issues of female circumcision and early marriage.
- A lecture on the role of music in elevating the role of the Egyptian women and the ability to solve violence problems inflicted on them.
- Symposium on plastic art and its relationship to the breadwinner woman.
- A lecture entitled: pottery and handicrafts and their relationship to women’s economic development.
- Implementing an art exhibition that included a group of paintings that reflect the types of violence that women can be faced in various ways.
- Representing the Anti-Violence Against Women Unit at the International Conference on Empowering Egyptian Women, at Tolip Hotel_ Cairo.
- Attending the conference of government universities units to combat violence against women, under patronage of the National Council for Women in Hurghada.
