mission and vISION
Our Mission
Noor is a feminist think-and-do tank devoted to building the power of gender justice and progressive movements to obstruct far right agendas and advance our transformative visions. We coordinate a transnational network, expose and oppose the resurgent right and build narrative power, and facilitate strategic alignment and strategy development.
Our Vision
Noor envisions a world of equality, justice, and deep feminist and multiracial democracy, that prioritizes the care of people and the planet, and where feminist transformative visions thrive.
OUR VALUES AND TAcTICS
Across regions, the far right – including fascisms, authoritarianism, and fundamentalisms – have significantly entrenched their power in recent years. The crises facing us are global in nature, requiring greater and deeper transnational cooperation. Despite their anti-globalist and ultra-nationalist rhetoric, the far right coordinate, share strategies and organize across regions. Feminist and progressive activists face an increasingly repressive environment and escalating attacks on their legitimacy and safety.
Yet while under coordinated attack, feminist movements are the key to combating the global rise of the right, and to building deep democracy. For some time, feminist movements across regions have been at the forefront in identifying and analysing ‘warning signs’ of the resurgent right – these are rooted in patriarchy and heteronormativity, with gender and sexuality central to their ideologies. Likewise, along with other progressive movements, feminists have been at the leading edge of developing and growing transformative systemic alternatives and forms of organizing.
In this time of multiplying global crises, we have an important opportunity to come together to block these rising forces and to deeply reimagine our world.
Our values
- We are feminist.
- We are anti-imperialist.
- We are anti-capitalist.
- We are anti-racist.
- We are committed to social justice, equality and human rights.
- We are committed to deep democracy.
- We are committed to structural transformation.
Our principles
- Solidarity, accompaniment and mutual struggle
- Led by the most affected
- Collective care
- Accountability
- Translocalism
- Cross-movement collaboration
- Share representation, engagement and perspectives from the global South & global North
- Work across issues and across all regions and religious contexts
Our tactics
- Network coordination
- Political and popular education
- Strategic convenings
- Actionable and accessible research and analysis
- Collective strategy development
- Joint campaigns and actions
What’s in a name?
Noor: together we are the light breaking through the darkness.
Noor is a word and name used across numerous countries, including in SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa), South Asia, West Africa, Central Asia, & South-East Asia regions. Derived from Arabic, Noor means light or illumination.
political declaration
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supporters
We appreciate the funding support provided to us by the Tides Foundation, the Oak Foundation, the Nebula Fund, Open Society Foundations, and the Foundation for a Just Society.
We appreciate the administrative support of our fiscal sponsor, the Transnational Institute.