(2/2): Our upcoming toolkit brings together feminist & queer organising tactics from workshops across 2024-25 — contexts, wins, challenges, lessons.
Join us to preview the toolkit & share one of your tactics, successes, or insights.
🔗 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Noor at RightsCon 2026. The Tactics Cookbook: Setting Plans for Justice and Freedom. Friday, May 8 at 12:45 PM
(1/2): Heading to #RightsCon2026 in Zambia?
Noor is hosting a private, limited-capacity session (20 spots only) & you’re invited.
✨ The Tactics Cookbook: Setting Plans for Justice and Freedom
🗓 May 8 | ⏰ 12:45-1:45 PM
📍 A114 | 🗣 English
#RightsConZambia #FeministFutures #DigitalRights
🚨 New release: Against Securitisation (Noor × The Polis Project) is out now!
It looks at how “security” is woven into everyday life from borders to surveillance shaping rights, movement & solidarity, 7 often normalising authoritarian agendas.
Read: wearenoor.org/against-secu...
Solidarity in action – bridging divides for collective resistance.29 April 2026 at 9:30 AM. Room 204 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
Anti-rights actors strategically exploit divisions across our movements to roll-back hard-won rights. Strengthening cross-movement solidarity is imperative. How do we engage constructively across differences and centre our commonalities? Grounded in lived experience, this session helps start a dialogue towards a collective vision of solidarity. In line with human rights commitments, we’ll explore approaches to navigate tensions, identify shared goals, and strengthen collaboration within a framework that seeks to ensure everyone’s dignity, self-determination and legitimacy.
Noor is heading to #WD2026!
We are co-hosting “Solidarity in Action – Bridging Divides for Collective Resistance” with an incredible bunch of collaborators.
A space to build shared values, engage across differences & strengthen feminist solidarity amid backlash.
At WD? DM us.
Solidarity in action – bridging divides for collective resistance. 29 April 2026 at 9:30 AM. Room 204 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC).
Noor is heading to #WD2026!
We are co-hosting “Solidarity in Action – Bridging Divides for Collective Resistance” with some incredible co-collaborators.
A space to build shared values, engage across differences & strengthen feminist solidarity amid backlash.
At WD? DM us.
#NoorNetwork
New from the #FeministJournalistFellowship by Enas Kamal, in collab with @untoldmag.org!
LGBTQI+ ppl in #Egypt face escalating abuse as online harassment, state complicity & social hostility intersect turning #DigitalAttacks into real-world threats with no protection.
wearenoor.org/for-lgbtq-pe...
🚨 It’s here!
Big Tech Cash for Backlash, Noor x @ijsc.bsky.social new investigation, traces how #SiliconValley philanthropy fuels anti-rights agendas worldwide - while also funding rights-based work.
Read now: wearenoor.org/4347-2-big-t...
#BigTechCashForBacklash #FollowTheMoney #TechPhilanthropy
Far-right actors are trying to roll back women’s rights inside the UN — but feminists cannot give up.
Read why participation at the UN @ngocswny.bsky.social is more important than ever: www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/un-c...
@ijsc.bsky.social
Watch this space...
#NOORxIJSC #BigTech #FollowTheMoney
#TechPhilanthropy #PhilanthropyWatch #NewReport @ijsc.bsky.social
📣 Dispatch 12 of #VoicesOfResistance is here!
#Tunisia ’s 2011 revolution is being dismantled. Queer, feminist, anti-racist voices face arrests, online attacks & NGO shutdowns. Yet resistance persists, adapting inside the country & from the diaspora.
🔗 Read more: wearenoor.org/unmaking-a-r...
UNMAKING A REVOLUTION: FASCIST LOGICS AND THE NEW AUTHORITARIAN ORDER IN TUNISIA by Mira Iskis
🔥 #VoicesOfResistance continues — #12 drops this Wed!
In #Tunisia, the revolution that promised hope is being undone. Power is concentrated, dissent criminalised & feminist, Black, queer & anti-racist activists are pushed to the margins.
Yet they refuse to disappear...
NOOR AT CSW70 March 13 - Attacking Our Movements: Far Right Securitization Regimes Threatening Access to Justice. Co-organized by The Polis Project & Noor Moderated by: Tanya Tandon Speakers: Tina Al-khersan, Mizue Aizeki, Berfu Şeker, Subha Wijesiriwardena & Naureen Shameem Salvation Army - Lower Level, NYC 8:30 am - 10:00 am. ---------------------------------------------- March 16 - Holding progressive donors to account: A dialogue between funders and activists Co-organized by IJSC & Noor Moderated by: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Speakers: Diakhoumba Gassama, Heather Benjamin & Ana Ines Abelenda CCUN, Drew Room, 777 United Nations Plz, NY 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join Noor at #CSW70!
Register to attend our events: linktr.ee/NoorNetwork
✨ New from the Feminist Journalist Fellowship:
By Nicole Froio in collab with @globalvoices.org.
Political misinfo & legislative blocks are putting girls’ legal rights at risk in #Brazil. A must-read on the fight for #ReproductiveJustice.
🔗 wearenoor.org/how-far-righ...
#FeministJournalism
(3/3):
📅 16 March | 🕣 4:30–6:00 PM
📍 CCUN, Drew Room
777 United Nations Plaza, NY
We’ll unpack the findings, trace the money flows, and discuss accountability and resistance.
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/holding-pr...
#FeministJustice #NOORatCSW70
Moderator - Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is a communications strategist, facilitator, and writer with over 20 years of experience working with global feminist organisations and social movements. She is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Institute of Journalism and Social Change and leads MAKEDA PR, a feminist communications agency. She is also the author of The Sex Lives of African Women and Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Rites, Rituals and Sankofa in the Bedroom.
Speaker - Diakhoumba Gassama is a Senegalese-Belgian Pan-African feminist and human rights advocate with over 20 years of global experience advancing gender justice, migration rights, and inclusive governance. She has held leadership roles with Amnesty International and the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), and currently works with a U.S.-based philanthropic foundation.
Speaker - Heather Benjamin is the inaugural Director of the Nebula Fund, with a background spanning philanthropy, global policy advocacy, and grassroots activism. She previously spent a decade with the Open Society Foundations’ Public Health Program, where she worked on global HIV financing and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her work has focused on supporting activists responding to transnational anti-gender movements and advancing funding and policies for SRHR, sex worker rights, and LGBTQI+ justice.
Speaker - Ana Ines Abelenda is a Latinx feminist from Brazil and Uruguay with over 20 years of experience advancing social and economic justice and supporting feminist movements across the Global South. Before joining Noor as Organizing Lead, she spent more than a decade at the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) working on feminist economic justice, care economies, and labor rights. Her work focuses on building collective strategies to resist authoritarianism and advance systemic change.
(2/3): Join us for the launch of a new report exposing how #BigTech-linked philanthropy has quietly funded #antirights and #antigender movements worldwide. Our speakers will unpack how these funding networks strengthen #farright influence and what this means for our movements. #CSW70
Holding Progressive Donors to Account: A Dialogue Between Funders and Activists. Monday, 16 March, 2026 at 4:30 PM. CCUN, Drew Room, 777 United Nations Plz, New York.
(1/3): Funding shapes our movements — but who is holding progressive donors accountable? At #CSW70, Noor and @ijsc.bsky.social are bringing funders and activists together to confront this question. #FollowTheMoney
(3/3): Join us as we imagine feminist futures rooted in care, safety, and resistance.
📅 13 March | 🕣 8:30–10 AM
📍 Salvation Army ISJC, 221 E 52nd St, NY
Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/attacking-...
#NOORatCSW70 #FeministJustice #ResistSecuritization #DigitalRights #FeministFutures
Speaker: Tina Al-khersan is a Staff Attorney at Project South, with experience supporting asylum seekers in Greece and advancing justice efforts with the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre. She has published in leading journals including the Harvard Law & Policy Review and Yale Journal of International Law.
Speaker: Mizue Aizeki is the Executive Director of the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, where she leads research and advocacy on criminalization, borders, and migration control. She previously directed advocacy at the Immigrant Defense Project and is co-editor of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence. Her photography is featured in Dying to Live and Policing the Planet.
Speaker: Berfu Şeker is a feminist activist from Türkiye with extensive experience in civil society, organizing, and advocacy for gender justice. Over 15 years, she has led national and international efforts to counter anti-gender movements and strengthen rights-based approaches across the region. Alongside consulting for various NGOs, Berfu works as a Policy Expert at Kaos GL and serves as a Board Member of the 17 May Association.
Speaker: Subha Wijesiriwardena is a South Asian feminist researcher and activist based in New York, working across gender justice, human rights, and democratic freedoms. She brings deep experience in coalition-building, collective advocacy, and advancing feminist, anti-criminalization approaches in areas ranging from sexual and reproductive rights to digital rights. Her qualitative research targets longstanding epistemological gaps.
(2/3): These regimes don’t keep us safe — they criminalize, silence, and erode access to justice. Our speakers will unpack how security narratives spread transnationally, how Big Tech and colonial legacies fuel them, and the tactics used to block and delegitimize organizing.
Attacking Our Movements: Far Right Securitization Regimes Threatening Access to Justice. Friday, 13 March at 8:30 am Salvation Army - Lower Level, NYC Moderated by The Polis Project Opening comments by Noor.
Moderator: Tanya Tandon is a NYC-based feminist researcher, digital investigator, and organizer working on state violence, surveillance, digital rights, and immigrant justice. Her recent fieldwork in India explored how citizenship and state-making shape reproductive justice and health. She has advised on content moderation and data privacy at PwC, trained in open-source intelligence at Berkeley Human Rights Center, and currently works at the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Opening Comments: Naureen Shameem is a feminist activist and human rights lawyer, focused on challenging the global far right and transnational organizing. She is executive director and co-founder of Noor and a director of Women Living Under Muslim Laws. She has led initiatives at AWID and coordinated projects countering fundamentalisms and fascisms, and has advised groups including the Nebula Fund and Amnesty International.
(1/3): At @ngocswny.bsky.social 2026, Noor and @thepolisproject.bsky.social are naming what’s happening to our movements — and how we fight back. Far-right securitization is tightening its grip worldwide: policing borders, reshaping digital spaces, and pushing feminist + queer movements out.
(3/3): Join us as we imagine feminist futures rooted in care, safety, and resistance.
📅 13 March | 🕣 8:30–10 AM
📍 Salvation Army ISJC, 221 E 52nd St, NY
Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/attacking-...
#NOORatCSW70 #FeministJustice #ResistSecuritization #DigitalRights #FeministFutures
Tina Al-khersan is a Staff Attorney at Project South, with experience supporting asylum seekers in Greece and advancing justice efforts with the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre. She has published in leading journals including the Harvard Law & Policy Review and Yale Journal of International Law.
Mizue Aizeki is the Executive Director of the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, where she leads research and advocacy on criminalization, borders, and migration control. She previously directed advocacy at the Immigrant Defense Project and is co-editor of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence. Her photography is featured in Dying to Live and Policing the Planet.
Berfu Şeker is a feminist activist from Türkiye with extensive experience in civil society, organizing, and advocacy for gender justice. Over 15 years, she has led national and international efforts to counter anti-gender movements and strengthen rights-based approaches across the region. Alongside consulting for various NGOs, Berfu works as a Policy Expert at Kaos GL and serves as a Board Member of the 17 May Association.
Subha Wijesiriwardena is a South Asian feminist researcher and activist based in New York, working across gender justice, human rights, and democratic freedoms. She brings deep experience in coalition-building, collective advocacy, and advancing feminist, anti-criminalization approaches in areas ranging from sexual and reproductive rights to digital rights. Her qualitative research targets longstanding epistemological gaps.
(2/3): These regimes don’t keep us safe — they criminalize, silence, and erode access to justice. Our speakers will unpack how security narratives spread transnationally, how Big Tech and colonial legacies fuel them, and the tactics used to block and delegitimize organizing.
Noor at CSW70. March 12 - Strategy lab, Co-organized by Akãhatã, RESURJ & Noor. Invite only. March 13 - Attacking Our Movements: Far Right Securitization Regimes Threatening Access to Justice, Co-organized by The Polis Project & Noor 8:30 am - 10:00 am. March 16 - Holding progressive donors to account: A dialogue between funders and activists, Co-organized by IJSC & Noor 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM.
Noor is coming to #CSW70!
We are excited to be co-organising three events with our wonderful collaborators at this year's NGO CSW in New York.
More details coming soon… Save the dates!
#NOORatCSW70
“The shameless parading of these images showed the lack of women and minorities as clear as day.”
“When I count women in a marketplace, I am immediately able to assess the role of women in economic activities in that locality, their mobility and sense of agency.”
“When we are demanding the need for representation, not as a token, but noticeable numbers and diversity, the real demand is to ensure that the space will be safe and open to listen to my voice.”
(2/2): From bazaars without women to male-dominated reform tables, right-wing narratives & political gatekeeping turn exclusion into culture and “protection.” Each empty street and missing voice shows how silence — esp men’s silence — enables erasure.
Read here: wearenoor.org/normalised-i...
“Visibility is a key characteristic of what enables representation and access to ‘publicness’.”
“The true tragedy of this story is that if you ask most people in Bangladesh about this, especially men, they will tell you they have not noticed or considered this as something to take note of.”
“Men still largely view women in public, economic, political, and service roles as an add-on, not a basic right or earned position.”
(1/2): In “Normalised Invisibility – The Path Towards Exclusion,” Tasaffy Hossain shows how women’s absence in #Bangladesh public spaces isn’t incidental — it’s manufactured, normalised, and quietly upheld.
#SouthAsia #RootsOfHate #FeministResistance #WomenRising #ResistanceMatters #HerStory
📣 Dispatch 11 of #VoicesOfResistance is here!
In #Bangladesh, women’s absence from public life is treated as “normal”—a silence that hides a growing right-wing backlash before the election.
Tasaffy Hossain shows how invisibility becomes exclusion & how men’s silence drives anti-democratic futures.
✨ 1st article from our Feminist Journalist Fellowship is out now!
By Enas Kamal, in collab with @untoldmag.org
A powerful look at how queer Egyptians navigate connection, surveillance & digital risks.
#FeministJournalism #LGBTQ #Egypt #DigitalSafety #QueerVoices #SWANA
Normalised Invisibility - Path Towards Exclusion by Tasaffy Hossain
🔥 #VoicesOfResistance is back for 2026 – #11 drops this Wed!
In #Bangladesh, women are disappearing from streets, markets & politics but this silence is not natural. Men in power normalize their absence.
Women refuse to disappear. Visibility is resistance. Resistance is survival.
Noor is proud to support the @tninstitute.bsky.social’s State of Power 2026 report on the rise of fascism & the far-right.
The report highlights the economic, social & political forces driving far-right movements and offers insights on how we can respond.
Read here: www.tni.org/en/publicati...
This #HumanRightsDay, Noor and WHRD MENA honour Queer HRDs across the Global South — too often erased, yet still fighting, building, imagining freedom.
Our queer stories are political.
Coming soon…
#QueerHRDs #GlobalSouthQueer #LGBTQRights #QueerJustice
Find Noor at Reconference (8-10 Dec). In Kathmandu Nepal
Noor will be in Kathmandu from Dec 8–10 for CREA’s #ReConference2025!
We’ll be engaging on disability justice, anti-carceral futures, digital rights, climate justice & movement solidarity.
Keen to connect with network members & allies — DM us 💬
#NoorAtReCon
