Haider Kareem
Haider Kareem: I am a human rights officer in the Human Rights Office of the United Nations Assistance
Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). I have been working with UNAMI for more than 16 years.
I worked on several human rights issues such as the protection of civilians in armed conflicts, minority
rights, freedom of expressions, freedom of peaceful assembly freedom of journalism in Iraq. worked on
documenting and reporting the violations against journalists, bloggers, activists and HRDs specially in
and after the October 2019 mass anti-government demonstrations.
I also work on the promotion of human rights via several campaigns, advocacies and projects to
disseminate the culture of human rights. those activities aimed at integrating and disseminating human
rights through art work, short film festivals and street murals. The last was working on the project of
digital security and digital rights project for HRDs and activists. After finalizing the first phase of the
project successfully although, most it was online due to COVID, we started to implement the second
phase of the project by holding in-person training workshops in several governorates in Iraq. In our
project, in its two phases, we tried to raise the awareness and knowledge of the activists and HRDs of
their rights online which are and should be equal to their rights offline.
