Noura Ghazi

• Developed the organization's strategy based on my personal and professional experience, the expertise of the team, the needs and demands of the grassroots, especially women and other sexual identities, the field work, the trustful and respectful relation with beneficiaries.

• Created effective plans to achieve the organization's short- and long-term goals, informed by the needs of families of the missing and their roles as rights-holders.

• Planned the annual budget and ensured compliance with donor regulations.

• Led a team spread across five countries (Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, France, Canada).

• Established and maintained connections with local civil society and international organizations such as Caesar Famlies' Association, Lawyers and Doctors for Human Rights, ICRC, ICMP, Diakonia, IIMP, OHCHR, COI,etc.

• Supervising the legal work of representing and defending prisoners, in addition to cases related to personal and civil status, HLP rights, and other paper work.

• Represented the organization to external audiences such as at UNSC, Brussels conference, Rightscon, international forum by ICRS, etc.

• Represented NoPhotoZone , detainees and families of missing and disappeared on media, such as CNN, BBC, THEGUARDIANS, NEW York times, NBC, FRANCE24, Syria TV, etc.4

• Participated in many documentaries on the issue of enforced disappearance, both as a main character and as an advisor, such as Ayouni, Simple as water.

•Through my career as a lawyer from 2004 until 2018, I have defended and resolved more than 1000 cases before deferent courts in Syria, and since I founded NoPhotoZone in 2018, my team and I have supported more than 3000 families of victims in Syria, Lebanon and Turkey.

After more than 25 years of activism in many field of human rights, basically in the field of supporting victims of torture, ill_treatment, unlawful detention, forcibly disappearance and domestic violence, beside my expertise on protection during conflict and peace building during and post conflict, i feel grateful to my suffering from the mentioned violations, that caused for me beside a high level of PTSD and STSD, a very impactful influence and inspiration to other victims and young human rights activists.

At this stage of age and experience, I believe in my role in change making toward peace.

I have developed my work experience as a human rights lawyer since 2004, specifically focusing on justice and accountability for Syria. I founded NoPhotoZone Orgnization in 2018 to transmit the memory of my lare husband Bassel Khartabil Safadi, a prominent Palestinian Syrian activist and global programmer who was detained by the Syrian regime in 2012 and executed in 2015. Before and through NoPhotoZone, I have documented cases of arbitrary detention, torture, death penalty, sexual violations and, missing persons and enforced disappearance, which informed the reports of international organizations and international actors on these issues. I have also provided legal assistance and conducted legal empowerment sessions for women-led families of detainees and forcibly disappeared. As rights-holders, these sessions have enabled families to better understand their rights, better represent their own stories, and reduced their risk of exploitation by fixers. Through legal assistance, I provided families with safe channels to inquire about their loved ones. In collaboration with other Syrian lawyers.

• Conducted more than 500 legal empowerment and consultation sessions with families of the missing, informing them of the issue of disappearance and of their rights which reduced their risk of exploitation by fixers and motivated them to play an active role in the issue of disappearance.

• Documented cases of disappearance to be used by international NGOs and provided families with safe channels for them to inquire about their missing relatives.

• Supported the development of digital material (press releases, social media posts and advocacy videos) for the International Day of the Disappeared and the International Day for Women Human Rights Defenders.

• Established a family association made up of 100 Syrian women refugees in Lebanon who were previous detainees and family members of disappeared and missing to be the representatives of the victims and families in local and international forums.

• Established Qarar band which is a musical band of 8 youth, boys and girls, Syrian refugees in Lebanon, sons and daughters of detainees.

• Produced a book called “Syrian Law, However…” which is about the legal framework of detention according to domestic laws, Manual for trainers who deal directly with the families of missing and disappeared, Waiting which is a pros poetry book about love in prison, some researches and articles.

• Co_founder of Voix Des Prisoniers 2023.