Under the patronage of Prof. Ghada Farouk, Acting President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Amira Youssef, Dean of the Faculty of Girls, Ain Shams University, and Prof. Hanan Al-Shaer, Vice Dean of the Faculty for Postgraduate Studies and Research, opened the opening session of the first forum of the International Journal of Women’s and Children’s Studies at the Faculty of Girls, with the participation of the Arab Women’s Organization and the National Council for Women, entitled “Childhood and the Future... Education and Care between Family and Society,” in the presence of Prof. Azza Khalil, rapporteur of the forum and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Women and Child Studies, and Prof. Radwa Ramadan, Director of the Scientific Publishing Unit at the Faculty, includes a number of faculty staff, the teaching assistants, members of the National Council for Women, and faculty vice deans.

The forum addresses several topics online via the Zoom, including a topic on education. The session chair is Prof. Amal Khalaf and Prof. Naila Hassan Fayek, and the literary and cultural axis, chair of the session: Prof. Samah Zahran and the final topic on care and community policies. Session Chairman Prof. Nahla Nofal.

The forum aims to increase awareness about practices harmful to children, as well as introducing the Children’s Law, and what the Child Helpline provides as a mechanism for receiving complaints related to violations of children’s rights, as well as their right to learn about the educational, health, social, legal, and judicial services to which the state is committed in accordance with the Constitution.

The danger of early marriage (marriage of children before the age of 18 years), the penalty for circumcision, and the law’s criminalization of it, were also discussed, given the resulting health or psychological damage.