He has also been Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland, 1974 – 1975; UNESCO Senior Expert in Social Sciences in charge of Research and Human Resource Development Program, CAFRAD,[3] in Tangier, Morocco, from 1971 to 1973; and Vice Chancellor of Omdurman Islamic University from 1988 to 1991 where he established faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Agriculture.
[4] He was also founding member and Secretary General of the Sudanese National Committee for Human Rights which was established in Khartoum in 1967 – evidently the first of its kind in the Muslim world.
[6][7] Abdel-Rahim's publications include Excerpts from reviews of some of the above-mentioned books: "... Dr. Abdel-Rahim is eminently suited for presenting this subject, given his first hand knowledge of both East and West and his previous diplomatic career at the UN in New York and UNESCO in Paris as well as Scandinavia... Usually Muslim publications on human rights simply claim that Islam has invented the whole category and that there is no deficit in practicing these rights.
Ducking all the issues, this prototypical apologetic literature in point is utterly useless and even harmful.
I found chapter 3, which is devoted to the Interplay of Theory and Practice: Questions of Gender and Minorities, most impressive ..."[10] In addition, he has also published a number of articles in learned journals in Arabic and English.