virtual dialogue. No Going Back on Gender Justice: Organizing Against Anti-Gender Rights Backlash. As attacks on gender justice escalate, how can movements push back and protect hard-won gains? Noor and JASS (Just Associates) invite you to our virtual session that dives into the forces behind the backlash and how we can build collective strategies to block their agendas. March 17, 2025 8am EST / 12PM UTC. Meet our speakers...

Moderator | Sabika Abbas, Noor Speakers: Tabitha Griffith Advocate, academic and activist who believes in pre-emptively and proactively disrupting, de- funding, de-platforming and de-fanging fundamentalist ideologies in Africa. With over thirteen years’ experience navigating policy, human rights, health and governance spaces in East Africa, Tabitha has implemented multiple projects addressing unsafe abortion, sexual violence, HIV, forced sterilization, LGBTQ rights and teen pregnancies. Commencing in private practice, Tabitha’s legal career weaves through several award winning entities including the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network, (KELIN) and consulting for UNDP. Ms Saoyo is currently a faculty trainer for Akina Mama wa Afrika (Uganda), Afya na Haki (Uganda) and a member of the Amnesty International Kenya Board. Phumi Mtetwa JASS Southern Africa Regional Director, PHUMI is an activist dedicated to understanding and organising for liberation and freedom; linking economic history, violence, discrimination and exclusion as an important part of reimagination. With extensive experience working in international and regional contexts, particularly in Southern Africa and Latin America, Phumi has been part of many change processes. Her journey began in 1985, organising rent boycotts to resist apartheid.

Sonia Correa Sonia Corrêa is a research associate at the Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS (ABIA), in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2002, she has been a co-chair of Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), a global forum comprised of researchers and activists engaged in the analyses of global trends in sexuality related policy and politics. Recently, she has edited two collections of studies on "Anti-gender Politics in Latin America". She has taught at academic institutions such as the Colegio de México and the London School of Economics’ Department of Gender Studies. She has a degree in architecture, with a postgraduate degree in anthropology. Hina Baloch Researcher, Writer, and Political Organizer [Karachi-London]. Hina is politically active and organizing in Shia, Baloch, and Transgender communities since 2010, she has worked in left-leaning and feminist activist spaces in the past such as Aurat March Karachi, Women Democratic Front, Karachi Bachao Tehreek, which are an evolving & growing movements of working class people and gender minorities. She is co-founder of Pakistan's first political transgender pride Sindh Moorat March, She is a Chevening Scholar and a SOAS University of London alumnus in Gender Studies and she is also authoring a book on post-partition evolution of Khawajasira Culture in Pakistan.

✊ Fighting Back Against Backlash

Join JASS & Noor for a virtual session on the forces driving the #GenderJustice backlash — & how we build collective strategies to block their agendas.

📅 March 17 | 12PM UTC
🔗 Register: justassociates-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#FeministResistance #NOORatCSW69

Amazing session at #CSW69 today! Explored how #BigTech profits from #HateSpeech, fueling #FarRight & #AntiRights actors,threatening feminists movements & our rights. Big thanks to speakers, moderator, partners @ijsc.bsky.social & those who joined. More events coming up-check our profile #NOORatCSW69

🌍✨ Noor at CSW69!

We’re co-organizing, facilitating and participating in discussions on gender justice, anti-feminist backlash, the criminalization of gender-diverse individuals, and corporate funding for hate at #CSW69.

Watch this space for more...

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Bhumika Muchhala, Third World Network - Bhumika Muchhala is a senior advisor at the Third World Network, a policy research and advocacy organization addressing global trade, climate and economic governance, and Lecturer in International Political Economy at The New School. Her policy work, in collaboration with diverse actors such as international civil society, policymakers, multilateral institutions and social movements, addresses structural transformation of the international financial system and equity in global economic governance. She has advised global South governments in the context of international negotiations, led advocacy coalitions and serves as a thought leader for international advocates. Her transdisciplinary research and scholarship includes international political economy, feminist political economy, political ecology, policy discourses, and critical theories such as dependency, colonialism, postcolonialism and decoloniality. She has published journal articles in Feminist Economics, World Development and Nature, among others, as well as book chapters and over 50 policy reports. Bhumika holds a PhD in International Political Economy from the New School and an MSc in Development Theory, History and Policy from the London School of Economics.

Sofía Scasserra, Transnational Institute - Sofia Scasserra is a research associate at the Transnational Institute (TNI) specializing in digital economy, employment and development. She is a researcher at the Institute of the World of Work at the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) in Argentina. She also advises the international trade union movement, among other public policy-making actors in Argentina.

Naureen Shameem, Noor - Naureen Shameem is a feminist activist and human rights lawyer with roots in Pakistan, with a focus on investigating and challenging the global far right, and transnational organizing. She is the executive director of Noor, alongside an amazing group of co-conspirators. Naureen is also a director of the transnational grassroots solidarity network Women Living Under Muslim Laws. She previously led the Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Initiative at AWID, and coordinated the Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs), a collaborative project countering fundamentalisms and fascisms. Naureen has acted as an advocate for gender, migrant and social justice with a number of groups; and has served in an advisory capacity with the Nebula Fund and Amnesty International. She was a Women and Justice Fellow at Cornell Law School, and studied women's human rights, international law, critical legal theory, and religion at Harvard Law School.

Maher Sattar, The Fuller Project - Maher Sattar is an award-winning journalist and senior editor at The Fuller Project. Maher's career has spanned broadcast, print, and digital reporting, with a decade covering South and Southeast Asia for outlets such as The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and The Washington Post. He has reported extensively on the climate crisis, migration and refugees, politics, and the international labor movement, with a particular focus on how women - such as Bangladeshi garment workers - organize for their rights in these arenas.

(2/2): Hear them uncover the hidden financial flows fueling fascist and fundamentalist forces - and how we can fight back.

🗓 11th March 2025
⏰ 4:30PM - 6:00PM
📍 CCUN - 11th Floor

#FollowTheMoney #EndHateForProfit #NoorXIJSC #NOORatCSW69 #FightingFascism

Financing Fascism & Fundamentalism - Corporate Funding Flows Sowing Hate. Co organized by Noor & The Institute for Journalism and Social Change (IJSC). 11th March 2025 4:30pm - 6:00pm (1.5hrs) CCUN - 11th Floor. The power of fascist and fundamentalist actors is on the rise, gravely threatening feminist movements, our capacity to organize, and a wide range of rights - including rights related to gender and sexuality. Fueling this process, anti-rights and anti-democratic actors are engaged in an ongoing process of capital accumulation. As joint research this year from Noor and IJSC is examining, corporations - particularly Big Tech - are benefitting from hate speech online and helping to finance the far right and anti-rights actors. Join us in an important discussion on the ways in which the far right monetizes hatred online, turning divisive rhetoric into a source of income and power, and its impact on our movements.

#Fascist & #fundamentalist actors are gaining power threatening fundamental rights but who is funding this rise? 🤔💰

Noor & @ijsc.bsky.social will present initial thoughts from joint research on how #BigTech profits from #HateSpeech - fueling the #farright and #antirights movements.

#NOORatCSW69

Noor at CSW69 11/03 4:30 PM Financing Fascism & Fundamentalism - Corporate Funding Flows Sowing Hate Noor & IJSC 17/03 8 AM No Going Back on Gender Justice: Organizing against Anti-Gender Rights Backlash Noor & JASS 18/03 8:30 AM Seeking just futures: Reflecting on criminalization and the gender justice agenda at Beijing+30 Noor, JFC, APC & INTERSEX ASIA. More details coming soon

✨ Save the Dates! ✨

Noor is thrilled to be co-organizing three events at #CSW69!

📍 Two in-person events
💻 One virtual event

Join us as we dive into critical conversations on #Fascism & #Fundamentalism, #AntiGender rights, criminalization & #GenderJustice. More details coming soon🔥

#NoorAtCSW69