William Warda (Syriac: ܘܠܝܡ ܚܡܘ ܘܪܕܐ) is an Iraqi Assyrian journalist and human rights campaigner.
He is a former leading member of Iraq's Assyrian Democratic Movement and former general manager of Ashur TV before co-founding the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization with his wife, Pascal Esho Warda, who was a former Minister of Immigration and Refugees in the Iraqi Interim Government.
[3] Since 2015, Warda has served as chairman[4] of the Alliance of Iraqi Minorities, a coalition of civil society groups working to forge better cooperation among Iraq's disparate, and often divided,[5] minority communities—including Assyrian Christians, Shabaks, Mandaeans, Yarsanis (Kaka'is), Baha'is, Faili Kurds and Yazidis.
[7] Warda has continuously focused on amplifying the voices of Iraq's minority communities, particularly its Christian groups, where he estimated that as much as half of them fled the country as a result of the U.S.
Warda is also fluent in 4 different languages, namely his native Assyrian, alongside Arabic, English, and Kurdish.