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Noor is a global feminist & movement-driven think & do tank, devoted to building the power of gender justice & progressive movements. wearenoor.org

"Opposition to a particular law, technology or corporation will, on its own, never be sufficient.”
“The digital harvest sought by the police is in fact one of fruits that ripen, but are never quite ready.”
Jerry Richardson - Jerry Richardson Is a researcher at the Institute for Journalism and Social Change (IJSC), where her work has been predominantly focused on cross-border follow-the-money investigations. She has a Master’s degree in Investigative Reporting from Birkbeck, University of London and previously worked on investigations at Truth Defence, a non-profit focused on state-disinformation and lawfare.
VIRTUAL GLOBAL LAUNCH - BIG TECH CASH FOR THE BACKLASH: Corporate Funding Flows Sowing Hate - 16 July 2026 1 PM UTC / 9 AM New York / 4 PM Beirut. Available in English, Spanish and French. Registration required.
July 2026 1 PM UTC / 9 AM New York / 4 PM Beirut. Available in English, Spanish and French. Registration required.
On Caribbean traditions of resistance “This is the region of the Haitian Revolution, the first successful slave revolt to build a free Black republic. It is the region of Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, Claudia Jones, Walter Rodney, Frantz Fanon, M. Jacqui Alexander. Caribbean feminist, Black, queer, Indigenous and working-class movements have been teaching the world how to resist for centuries.”
Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - Consequences in the Region
On how anti-rights movements operate “Anti-gender and anti-rights movements move across all of these roots, frequently connecting actors, sharing strategies, and targeting the most marginalized.”
Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - How Anti-Rights Power Operates
Roots of Hate: Fascist and Fundamentalist Narratives and Actors in the Caribbean - A Transnational Field of Power
Noor Popular Education School on Countering the Far Right. Know Your Enemy 2026. Applications open.
"Noor's report on SVCF is a must reading. It makes transparent how philanthropic institutions, in the name of neutral financial operations, shamefully channel funds to ultraconservative organizations, whose activities goes openly against their formally declared principles." Sonia Corrêa, Sexuality Policy Watch
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"We as donors have to be advocates within our own institutions to make sure that we are not falling prey to false flags” - Heather Benjamin, Nebula Fund
Noor x IJSC at CSW70 - holding progressive donors to account: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FUNDERS AND ACTIVISTS
“Authorities are increasingly using vague accusations such as money laundering to silence human rights defenders.”
“Human rights defenders are being harassed, investigated, and detained simply for carrying out their legitimate work.”
Against Securitization - “Securitization is not only achieved through speech that is emotion-stirring, dramatic and heavily draws on nationalistic imagery and ideology. Specific governance, bureaucratic and legal processes like the technologies used to police migrants at borders, classify persons as citizens or ‘aliens’, and surveil movements of criminalized communities, are all forms of securitization.”
"To grasp the political power of tech corporations, one must examine their philanthropy."
"Every political project is enforced through an economic one."
Noor at RightsCon 2026. The Tactics Cookbook: Setting Plans for Justice and Freedom. Friday, May 8 at 12:45 PM
Solidarity in action – bridging divides for collective resistance.29 April 2026 at 9:30 AM. Room 204 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC)
Solidarity in action – bridging divides for collective resistance. 29 April 2026 at 9:30 AM. Room 204 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC).
UNMAKING A REVOLUTION: FASCIST LOGICS AND THE NEW AUTHORITARIAN ORDER IN TUNISIA by Mira Iskis
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“The shameless parading of these images showed the lack of women and minorities as clear as day.”
“Visibility is a key characteristic of what enables representation and access to ‘publicness’.”
Normalised Invisibility - Path Towards Exclusion by Tasaffy Hossain
We're staying anyway... A political act of visibility, resistance, and memory for QHRDs. Coming soon in 2026...
Find Noor at Reconference (8-10 Dec). In Kathmandu Nepal
Call for researcher. Roots of Hate, Souther Africa. Application deadline: 15 Jan 2026.
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.
MEET THE FELLOWS. Feminist Journalist Fellowship
Diálogo intermovimientos en línea sobre ecofascismos. 26 de noviembre, 2025 13:00 UTC Habrá interpretación en español e inglés. Escanea para registrarte
Online Cross-Movement Dialogue - Resisting Ecofascisms. November 26th, 2025 At 1pm UTC Interpretation available in Spanish & English. Scan 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.
MEET THE MENTORS. Feminist Journalist Fellowship.
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.
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
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
Noor & Just Futures Collaborative. CLIMaTE WEEK DIALOGUE. Cross-Movement Strategies to Counter Ecofascisms
Zine: Hacking prejudice. Facade of harmlessness. Camouflage, spirituality...
Photograph of Hilal Tekmen and Aarushi Mahajan
Zine: "All we have left is fear"
Noor at the Global Gathering 2025
Global Architecture of Funding Funds from the Global North to the Global South are often presented as aid or cultural cooperation, but they can serve other strategic or ideological purposes. Right-wing governments redirect public resources to conservative institutions. Anti-gender funding blocks progressive laws and criminalizes sexual diversity. Mapping key organizations and channels is critical to understanding influence.
Noor Popular Education School on Countering the Far Right - KNOW YOUR ENEMY. Session 4 Political Economy: Investigating the undercurrents of illicit funding, political party financing, and the rise of crowdfunding as key players in today’s political landscape
“Every meal cooked in a blockade, every testimony archived, and every digital story shared is a refusal to be erased.”
“Women’s erasure in Sudan is not incidental; it is systematic, deliberate, and ideological.”
What Members Gain: Joint Campaigns & Working Groups - lead or join collective actions, solidarity campaigns, and member-led working groups. Shared Resources - access reports, toolkits, case studies, and regular updates on analysis, events, and opportunities. Holistic Security - specialized support on digital and holistic security. Connections Across Movements - build ties with organizers, journalists, artivists, scholar-activists, and Noor’s fellows. Learning & Capacity Building - workshops, peer learning circles, and political education spaces.