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
![[Nathasha] was charged under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act and the Penal Code, for hate speech and what can be paraphrased as wounding and outraging Buddhist religious feelings. Initially denied bail, she was released on bail in June 2023 and it was exactly one year later that all charges against her were dropped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gfru3ieijqptxyndkqfvv5eu/bafkreicbxpjagfj7r5zoyoscgilc2zyhtz2lkywasjnqrx6hpbnv6kmfmq)
