Informational determinants of access

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.

本研究首先识别出致力于伊朗人权状况的人权非政府组织（Human Rights NGOs）。随后编制了一份仅聚焦伊朗人权议题的人权非政府组织名录，作为本研究的样本来源。在核查相关机构的官方网站与注册信息后，仅将在欧盟注册或在欧盟设有办事处以跟进相关事务的机构纳入样本，未在欧盟开展活动的机构则从名录中剔除。此后，又编制了一份国际人权非政府组织名录，用于排查其是否在欧洲议会（European Parliament，EP）范围内开展与伊朗人权状况相关的活动。通过核查这些国际人权非政府组织的官网与业务活动，发现部分机构的工作优先级在于推动相关议题落地，而这类工作需以在目标国的直接驻场为前提；鉴于这些机构无法在伊朗设立驻场机构，因此未开展任何针对伊朗人权议题的相关活动。将上述两份名录整合后，最终得到包含157家人权非政府组织的样本名录。

2020年6月正式启动数据收集工作。研究人员首先向样本中的机构发送电子邮件，说明研究项目详情，邀请其填写调查问卷，并邀约参与项目相关访谈。研究人员在构建样本时，曾从各非政府组织官网收集到其联系电话，借此也致电相关机构，询问其参与访谈的可能性，并动员其填写调查问卷。鉴于当时新冠疫情的大流行形势，多数机构均采用远程办公模式，研究人员遂为其留言说明项目详情，邀约访谈并邀请填写问卷。在首次通过邮件向人权非政府组织发送调查问卷后，研究人员又以每两周为间隔，先后三次发送跟进邮件。在这三轮跟进邮件中，研究人员均简要说明项目背景，并提醒尚未填写问卷的机构参与本次调研，以助力其完成相关数据收集工作。在最后一轮跟进邮件发出三周后，研究人员停止了本研究定量部分的数据收集工作。

数据收集流程结束后，研究人员将通过谷歌表单（Google Forms）收集到的调研数据导出至Excel电子表格文件中。随后对数据进行核查与整理，使其与研究问题形成对应关联。