✨ 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
Call for researcher. Roots of Hate, Souther Africa. Application deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
📢 Noor is hiring!
We are seeking researchers for our #RootsOfHate mapping in #SouthernAfrica — analysing authoritarian resurgence, anti-gender campaigns, extractivism & racial capitalism - amplifying feminist alternatives.
Scan the QR for more details.
Nicole Froio - Brazil Nicole Froio is a Brazilian-Colombian journalist and feminist cultural critic based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her work has been featured in international outlets including The Guardian, Xtra Magazine, The Verge, Bitch Media, Prism Reports, Dame Magazine and Yes! Magazine, among others. She writes on the intersections of gender, politics, and culture, with particular focus on the weaponization of womanhood by far-right parties, trans moral panics, and abortion misinformation. Froio is the co-founder of The Flytrap, a feminist, worker-owned, and non-hierarchical newsletter. Outside of her professional work, she enjoys dancing, sewing, crochet, and reading feminist theory.
Alifya Sohail - Pakistan Alifya Sohail reports on the machinery of power in Pakistan and those crushed beneath it. Her work traces disappearances as governance, and the women who refuse to be governed by it. She has documented the rise and persecution of the BYC from Karachi’s streets to the 74-day sit-in in Islamabad, mapping routine violence against the families left behind. Her fellowship project interrogates the patriotism in disappearance; how obfuscation has become Pakistan’s native tongue. It also follows the women who reject that syntax: building archives from wreckage and keeping a record most deny or distort.
Enas Kamal - Egypt Enas Kamal is a freelance journalist and podcaster with a strong focus on gender, civil rights, LGBTQ+ issues, digital rights, and women’s empowerment. In 2020, she won First Place in a competition organized by the Ministry of Social Solidarity in collaboration with Plan International, recognizing the best journalistic story highlighting young women’s issues. Her work and commitment have been further recognized through fellowships, including the KAICIID Fellowship in 2023 and a 2024 fellowship from ARIJ addressing digital violence against women. Additionally, she is the only Egyptian member of WIN Allies, contributing to supporting and reporting on the LGBTQ+ community.
(2/2): With guidance, training & transnational feminist networks, our fellows are ready to produce bold, rigorous journalism that challenges harmful narratives and sparks real change.
#InvestigativeJournalism #GlobalSouthStories #FeministFellowship #NarrativePower
MEET THE FELLOWS. Feminist Journalist Fellowship
(1/2): ✨ Meet the inaugural cohort of our Feminist Journalist Fellowship!
These incredible feminist journalists are exposing anti-gender propaganda, investigating FFs, and amplifying voices often unheard across the Global South.
#FeministJournalism #NoorFJF #AmplifyVoices
Diálogo intermovimientos en línea sobre ecofascismos. 26 de noviembre, 2025 13:00 UTC Habrá interpretación en español e inglés. Escanea para registrarte
🌱 Diálogo en línea sobre Ecofascismo
Tras nuestro encuentro en COP30 Belém sobre Resistiendo el Ecofascismo, únete a un diálogo en línea que reúne movimientos feministas, queer, climáticos y de justicia ecológica frente a narrativas fascistas.
Regístrate: us06web.zoom.us/.../reg.../Q...
Online Cross-Movement Dialogue - Resisting Ecofascisms. November 26th, 2025 At 1pm UTC Interpretation available in Spanish & English. Scan to register.
🌱 Online Cross-Movement Dialogue on #Ecofascism
Building on our #COP30 Belém session on Resisting Ecofascisms, join Noor & collaborators for an online dialogue uniting feminist, queer, climate & ecological justice movements against fascist narratives driving ecocide.
Scan the QR code to register.
Fernanda Canofre - Global Voices. Fernanda Canofre is a reporter based in Southern Brazil. She is currently the Southern Cone Regional Editor and Lusophone sub-editor at Global Voices, and works as a freelancer with stories published in national and international news outlets such as Valor Econômico, Folha de S. Paulo, O Globo, Agência Pública and The Guardian. She covered developments from tragedies such as the recent floodings in the South of Brazil, dam bursts in Minas Gerais and the fire at the Kiss nightclub in Rio Grande do Sul, stories on the recent past of the military dictatorship and many others focusing on human rights. Canofre graduated in Social Communications - Journalism (2009) and has a M.A. in History -- Thoughts and Cultures, from the University of Coimbra (2012). She was born in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul.
Hadia Akhtar - Jamhoor Media Hadia is an economic and feminist anthropologist of rural Pakistan. Her research is on migration, the family and agrarian change in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. She is part of the editorial collective at Jamhoor. She is also currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.
Walid El Houri - Untold Mag Walid El Houri is a researcher, journalist and media specialist from Lebanon. He is Co-founder & Editor in Chief of UntoldMag.org, West Asia & North Africa Editor at Global Voices, and Senior Media & Communications Specialist at the Centre for Lebanese Studies. He holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Amsterdam and works at the intersection of academia, media, and advocacy, with a focus on social and political movements, and the geographies of war and violence.
(2/2): Grounded in feminist political education & transnational solidarity, our mentors bring expertise & networks to help fellows produce impactful journalism.
Together, they’re shaping the next generation of feminist journalists challenging harmful narratives.
#GlobalSouthStories
MEET THE MENTORS. Feminist Journalist Fellowship.
(1/2): ✨ Meet the mentors of #FeministJournalistFellowship: Journalism as Resistance!
These incredible storytellers driving change will guide our fellows as they investigate fascist & fundamentalist movements, counter #antigender propaganda & amplify frontline voices across the #GlobalSouth.
Resistiendo los ecofascismos: Un diálogo intermovimientos presencial en los márgenes de la COP30 en Belém do Pará, Brasil. 1 de noviembre de 2025 De 9:00 a.m. a 4:30 p.m.
(3/3): ¡Noor estará en Belém, Brasil, el 11 de noviembre para un Diálogo Intermovimientos sobre la Resistencia a los Ecofascismos, en los márgenes de la #COP30 🌿
Activistas se unirán para resistir agendas ecocidas y de extrema derecha. ¡DM si vas a estar allí! 💬
Resistindo aos Ecofascismos: Um diálogo intermovimentos presencial às margens da COP30 em Belém do Pará, Brasil. 11 de novembro 2025 9:00 am até às 16:30hs Beira Rio Hotel, Belém, Pará
(2/3): A Noor estará em Belém, Brasil, no dia 11 de novembro para um Diálogo Intermovimentos sobre Resistir aos Ecofascismos, às margens da #COP30 🌿
Ativistas se reunirão para enfrentar agendas de extrema direita e ecocidas. Mande uma DM se estiver por lá 💬
Resisting Ecofascisms: An in-person cross-movement dialogue on the margins of COP 30 in Belém do Pará, Brazil. 11 November, 2025 9:00am to 4:30pm At Beira Rio Hotel, Belém, Brazil
(1/3): Noor will be in Belém, Brazil on Nov 11 for a Cross-Movement Dialogue on Resisting Ecofascisms, on the margins of #COP30 🌿
Activists from diverse movements will gather to resist far-right & ecocidal agendas and build solidarity. DM if you’ll be there 💬
Narrow economic models justify dehumanization. This tactic is used to then gain control of land and natural resources. Ecofascism is scale orientated.
In India, Rohingya refugee women work in green waste segregation. Those often stigmatized as “carrying diseases” are, in fact, the ones most exposed to toxic waste hazards.
(3/3): Amid the urgency, there was hope — a collective practice of imagining feminist, decolonial resistance to ecofascism. Across Pakistan, Nairobi, Seattle & Kampala, we began to map common enemies and nurture solidarity.
#FeministFutures #DecolonialClimateJustice #COP30
80% of anti-trans fundraising comes from fossil fuels or billionaires to distract from climate crises, we can no longer focus on single group and expertise.
The floods in Pakistan tripled sexual violence this year. Women gave birth amid collapsing healthcare, while young women shoulder survival in a male-dominated system.
(2/3): We unpacked how the language of sustainability is being weaponized to advance fascist agendas — defining who is “pure” enough to belong, and who must be erased in the name of progress. From borders to prisons, these struggles are deeply intertwined.
#CounterEcofascisms #Ecofeminism
