Under the supervision of the Dean of the College of Pharmacy, Associate Professor Dr. Sarmed H. Kathum Alkhateeb, the Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance Unit, and in cooperation with the Ibn-Sina E-Learning Unit, held an electronic educational workshop on the Zoom platform entitled (Domestic Violence and Human Rights, presented by Assistant Professor Dr. Farrah Rasool Jaafar, a faculty member at the College of Medicine/Al-Nahrain University, and lecturer Dr. Muthanna Saadi Farhan, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the College of Pharmacy/University of Baghdad. The workshop aimed to increase awareness about domestic violence, which is considered one of the social phenomena that has received the attention of many researchers to conduct research about its causes and impact on the individual and society. There are many harms of violence inflicted on children, including learning failure, running away from home, suicide, and sometimes mental trauma. Additionally, the violence may be against the wife, parents, or any member of society.The workshop also dealt with an introductory overview of the concepts of violence and human rights. The workshop summarized the reasons behind using violence against others, such as the weakness of religious and moral conscience, misunderstanding, and upbringing and growing up in a violent environment. It also presented the types of domestic violence, including the husband’s violence towards his wife, the wife’s violence towards her husband, and the parent’s violence towards their children, and vice versa. It also includes physical, sexual, and verbal violence through threats, as well as social and intellectual violence.The workshop also addressed the definition of human rights, the basic standards for them, and national and international strategies for protecting these rights. The workshop showed that there is no importance for rights without a human being and no value for a human being without rights. Humans and rights are inseparable and interconnected, and the basic condition for protecting human rights is to eliminate the contradiction between reality and legislation. The workshop recommended the necessity of activating the protection of human rights and the importance of cooperation between educational institutions and government institutions in disseminating a culture of human rights.