Lawyer, Consulting and Project Manager@NoPhotoZone
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Noura Ghazi is an International Human Rights lawyer. She has helped over 1,000 detainees and their families in Syria. She is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Nophotozone, the global NGO providing legal assistance, empowerment, and advocacy for detainees and their families and families of those forcibly disappeared in Syria.
With the start of the Syrian revolution in 2011, she dedicated her time to fight for defending and supporting political detainees and families of disappeared and missing. She began to study and get many diplomas on international and domestic laws related to detention, forcible disappearance, missing persons, torture, death penalty, advocacy and campaigning. She also gathered countless testimonies, dealing with trauma, rehabilitation, community organizing, identification of bodies and remains. She also became an expert at protecting mass graves, international human rights law, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law.
In 2015, Noura authored the book “Waiting…”. In 2020, she co-authored the book Syrian law. She is the writer of many articles and studies.
She has received many international recognitions, such as being one of “8 Kick-ass women in the world” by Amnesty International – 2018. She is “one of the most prominent 14 women human rights defenders in the world”, said Amnesty International in 2019, And, in 2021, she was in the first group of Marianne Initiative Laureates awarded by French President Macron.
Through the Syrian Revolution, she received many titles such as the “Bride of the Syrian Revolution”, and “100 faces of the Syrian revolution”.
There are countless articles about her in major international media in addition to movies and books including her life and work.More...