Kurdistan, Erbil: Two non-governmental organisations have accepted to do their joint projects in the media and journalism fields.
On 27 May 2018, Dr Shwan Adam Aivas, the founder and chair of the Kurdish Media Watchdog (CHMK), and Professor Dlawer Ala’Aldeen, the founding president of the Middle East Research Institute (MERI), discussed non-governmental organisation challenges in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In the same meeting, they have accepted to do joint projects on media and journalism, as well as the different practical mechanisms that have been debated in order to easily start upcoming projects.
Kurdish Media Watchdog (CHMK) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental, and independent media aid organisation. It was also founded by several Kurdish academicians in November 2017. This organisation aims to be the watchdog, monitoring, evaluating, reporting and studying weaknesses and invasion cases of professional standards in convergent media content and Kurdish journalism practices. In the beginning, it is focusing on enhancing media professionalism and raising awareness of the human rights and democratisation process of the Iraqi Kurdish society and its residents who have had their human rights ignored or unprofessionally violated by Kurdish media organisations and their workers in private lives and other civil rights.
Middle East Research Institute (MERI) is a newly established, independent, not-for-profit organisation focused on policy issues relating to the people, the land and the system of governance in the Middle East in general and Kurdistan and Iraq in particular. It is based in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
