Nour Haidar
Nour is a lawyer working across litigation, policy, and public advocacy at Privacy International. Nour’s work focuses on resisting surveillance, ensuring social protection and protecting civic spaces.
Nour has a particular interest in policy and human rights in the Middle East/SWANA region. Prior to joining PI, Nour was a Columbia Law School Fellow working in Beirut, and trained as a lawyer at a corporate law firm in London. She was admitted as a lawyer in England and Wales in September 2018. Nour holds a BA in Law and Politics from SOAS, University of London and an LLM from Columbia University in New York.
Session
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Discussion around strategies being deployed by EU-based journalists and NGOs to tackle surveillance exports from the EU. The technology being exported and/or financed may be (and in some cases, has been) used by authoritarian regimes and security forces to perpetuate serious harms and abuses against individuals and human rights defenders.
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Enable advocates, researchers and activists to undertake advanced research into EU-based financing and/or export of highly intrusive surveillance technologies.
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Develop a shared perspective on the most effective safeguards (human rights risk assessments vs. data protection stipulations vs. conditional funding vs. monitoring mechanisms)