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Noor


Age	37
Gender	Female
Role	Researcher
Skills	Simultaneously records evidence/documents information while also developing, maintaining, and growing a database where these records and information are stored and potentially analyzed.
Base Location	Baghdad


	Noor is a researcher at an anonymous human rights organization.
	Noor works from an office in Baghdad and also from the field.
	Noor uses a Samsung phone.
	Noor receives media directly from sources as well as from documenters collecting OSINT (scraping media from social media and other public sites) and on the ground footage.
	Noor typically uses WiFi when she is based in Baghdad and then switches to cellular data when traveling.

Noor's Case Summary

Tasks

Monitoring and documenting human rights violations first-hand
Preserving and archiving witness testimony
Conducting OSINT research on related issues
Drafting reports and briefs for the organization’s legal team.

Goals and Motivations

Investigating and making public the human rights abuses taking place
Identify those accountable, so that legal experts can protect and advocate for those experiencing human rights violations.
Preserve information and multimedia content that researchers use in their investigations.

Environment

Baghdad region
Working out of an office space
Regular travel to other parts of Iraq to document events and human rights violations

Needs

Updated technology to boost the speed of documenting and preserving evidence
Legal protections , especially in time-sensitive cases.
Increased data packages to access mobile internet

Pain points

For OSINT-related work, content is often deleted before it can be verified and preserved.
A lack of legal protections make Noor’s research dangerous and she has been a target of attack and arrest previously.
Outdated technology slows workflows
Limited data plans make it difficult to upload, download, and share multimedia files while on the road.

Solutions

Funding for updated technology
Funding for mobile internet
Supporting organizational advocacy to support efforts for greater protection.

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