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Al-Maleki was born in 1989 to a working class rural family (3 older brothers, 1 baby brother and one younger sister) who initially and temporarily lived in Basra before they immigrated to the United States in the early 90s (likely to escape the Saddam Hussein regime and the Gulf War) when she was 4 years old.

Noor was fluent in both Arabic and English. Growing up, she was expected to "perfectly" complete domestic servitude tasks including cooking all dishes and cleaning the house, otherwise, according to her friends, she would get beaten up if her tasks were not perfect enough. Her parents never loved let alone cared for her.

Noor wanted to be a teacher and had adopted Western lifestyles and dress (this used to be socially accepted in Iraq for women like Noor in the 70s and early 80s before she was born). Much like with other teenagers (atleast back then), she enjoyed shopping in groups, go to parties, watch cinemas and do birthdays; she also had an Iraqi boyfriend, however, her parents were very cross with her lifestyle.

Further disputes climbed with her parents physically and verbally abusing her which resulted in becoming independant and filing a restraining order against her parents while living with her Iraqi boyfriend. However, the order was never signed and she had to return to the family home in 2009.

Repeatedly until 2008 (during the Iraq War), her father, Faleh Hassan Al-Maleki flew her to Iraq for an arranged marriage, but it was unknown if the marriage actually took place.

As punishment, her father ran her and her boyfriend's mother, Kamal, in late October 2009. Both suffered from serious injuries, but Kamal survived and recovered, unfortunately in the start of November that year, brain injury worsened for Noor and lost her life. During her time in hospital, institutional forces guarded Noor just in case her mother would finish her off.

In the trial in 2011, phone call audio showed her mother, Sahem Al-Maleki, enabling the attack: she bragged on the audio stating how she is happy and said "that's what she needs", while the dispatch responded and called her a "sick individual".

Faleh cried in court stating that he deserved to die and not her after being jailed in April. In November 2024, her father died and his body was cremated.

She follows a list of prominent Iraqi victims of Honour Killing, other victims include Banaz Mahmood and Tiba Al-Ali.

In July 2001, Bolkovac filed a lawsuit in Great Britain against DynCorp for unfair dismissal after a protected disclosure (whistleblowing).They had claimed she was fired for falsifying time sheets. On August 2, 2002, the tribunal unanimously ruled in her favour. She reported that fellow DynCorp officers were paying for prostitutes, raping underage girls and participating in sex trafficking. While locals were prosecuted, any UN contractors involved had immunity from prosecution in Bosnia, although a number of these officers were forced to resign and leave the country, under suspicion of illegal activity. Madeleine Rees, Head of Office in the region for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, testified in her support. In November 2002, an employment tribunal ordered DynCorp to pay Bolkovac £110,221 in damages. She stated that the case settlement “didn't really even cover expenses”. The US Government continued their contract with DynCorp.

In 2015, Bolkovac graduated with a degree in political science from University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Also in that year, she was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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On 2 November 2009, Noor Faleh Al-Maleki was ran over by a motor vehicle driven by her father in an Honour Killing as punishment for repeatedly refusing an arranged marriage and for adopting a more modern mindset. In February 2011, father was convicted and was jailed for more than 30 years in April

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