The Human Rights Office within the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) was established in 2004 with the mandate to ensure the promotion and protection of human rights as foreseen in Security Council Resolution 1546 of June 2004. Freedom of movement of UN staff continues to be severely restricted because of security conditions in all regions, except governorates under the authority of the Kurdistan Regional Government. As of this writing, despite the difficult security situation, the Office had monitored and reported on the human rights situation and had implemented capacity-building activities focusing on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of state and civil society institutions.
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