Informational determinants of access
Description
The study began with identifying HR NGOs working on the human rights situation in Iran. A list of HR NGOs that only work on Iran's human rights was prepared to generate a sample related to the research. After checking the organisation's website and registration, only the organisations registered in the EU or have an office in the EU to follow their affairs included in the sample. Therefore, the organisations that are not active in the EU were removed from this list. A list of international HR NGOs was then prepared to identify if they have any activity in the EP regarding Iran's human rights situation. By checking the websites and activities of these international HR NGOs, it was found that some of them because their priorities are issuing whose implementation depends on a direct presence in that country, and due to the impossibility of the presence of these organisations in Iran, they have no activities on human rights issues in Iran. A list of 157 HR NGOs was generated by putting these two lists. To start collecting data in Jun 2020, the researcher first sent emails to the organisations in the sample, explained his project, invited them to fill out the questionnaire, and then asked them to participate in an interview related to his project. Based on the phone numbers that the researcher collected on the NGOs' website while generating his sample, the researcher also called these organisations to ask them for the possibility of participation in an interview and convince them to fill out the questionnaire. Based on the situation related to the Corona virus's pandemic, many of them were working remotely, and the researcher left a message for them and explained the project and asked them for an interview and filling the questionnaire. After the questionnaires were first sent to HR NGOs by email, the questionnaires were sent to organisations three more times, each time at two-week intervals. In all three emails sent to the HR NGOs, the researcher shortly explained the project and asked them if they are not yet filled out the questionnaire to participate in his survey to help him collect the relevant data. However, three weeks after the last reminder to the HR NGOs, the researcher stopped collecting data regarding the quantitative part of the study. At the end of the data collection process, the researcher downloaded the data gathered from the survey at Google Forms to an Excel spreadsheet file. At this point, the data was controlled and organized to correlate to the research questions.