Reema Omer Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In 2020, Reema along with other female journalists appeared before the National Assembly’s standing committee on human rights and requested its Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and the members to address the incidents of sexual harassment that female journalists and analysts have to face on Twitter. Having heard the accounts, the Federal Minister for Human Rights, Shireen Mazari condemned the harassment of female journalists and promised to take action against the persons involved in online harassment.

In 2019, Twitter sent a notice to Reema Omer that her tweets questioning the procedures of military courts, were in violation of the Constitution of Pakistan. However, then Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry denied the government’s involvement in submitting an official correspondence to Twitter against Reema’s in tweets.

Since 2011, she has been serving as a consultant for South Asia and an international legal adviser for Pakistan to the International Commission of Jurists, an INGO, composed of 60 eminent judges and lawyers from all regions of the world, that engage in promotion and protection of human rights through the Rule of Law, by using its unique legal expertise to develop and strengthen national and international justice systems.

She was awarded the Commonwealth Pegasus scholarship in 2010 where she worked in barristers’ chambers in London on human rights cases.

Omer, one of two children, was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She was educated at Lahore Grammar School, where she completed her O’ Level in 2002 and got a world distinction in A’ Level law in 2004. She did her BA-LL.B from Lahore University of Management Sciences in 2009, where she was awarded a gold medal for the best student. Later, she did an LLM specializing in public international law in 2010 from the University of Cambridge, UK. Omer is married to Dr. Ali Jan and has a daughter, Roohi.

Reema Omer (born 3 June 1986) is a Pakistani lawyer and human rights professional from Lahore. She is working as a legal adviser for the International Commission of Jurists. She regularly writes her opinion on the legal landscape and human rights issues in Pakistan, and contributes her legal and political analysis in current affairs shows on different news channels.