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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 23h

Many congratulations to Navi Pillay on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a fitting recognition of a lifetime devoted to human rights and justice around the world.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Attacks on hard-fought and hard-won gender rights gains are painful. But remember: Nobody organizes against a movement that isn't a threat to the old order.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Namibia’s first woman president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, is a trailblazer for Namibia and for women across Africa. Under her leadership, women make up 57 percent of Namibia’s Cabinet—a significant reflection of her commitment to women’s participation and leadership in decision-making.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m grateful to the governments of Norway and Kenya for convening a timely and important discussion on the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea. One of the things that strikes me about the current moment is how difficult it has become to separate crises that were once discussed independently.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Multilateralism among states is under enormous strain. But beneath the surface, something else is happening: cooperation is now moving faster between cities than between countries.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This week, @open-society.bsky.social hosted a conversation centered around the importance of local collaboration in building peace and safety.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At @nrginstitute.bsky.social’s 20th anniversary in New York, I spoke about the choices we are all making right now about critical minerals and the energy transition.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I gathered with local leaders and peace builders from Kenya, the Netherlands, Mexico, Colombia, and Spain to talk about local multilateralism for peace and safety.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Twenty years ago in the @open-society.bsky.social offices, a small group of people began asking a question that many in power found uncomfortable: If a country’s oil, gas, and minerals belong to its people, why were so many of those people living in poverty right beside it?

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What changes in governments around the world when women hold political power? The policies they pursue—on development, on participation, on human rights protections. When women lead, everyone’s outcomes improve.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The task before those fighting for universal human dignity is not the restoration of a vanished order, but the patient work of making a better one. We are the authors of our own stories.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The human rights movement has long defined itself in the negative: no to torture, no to censorship, no to detention without trial. These refusals are necessary, but they are not enough. In Vienna, for CEU’s 35th anniversary lecture, I spoke about the new world we must dare to build.

"We have too rarely dared to affirm a positive vision—one in which human rights are not only about the violations that can be stopped, but the kind of world that can be built. One where everyone has the right not merely to survive, but to thrive."

Binaifer Nowrojee, President
Open Society Foundations

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It’s time for the world to step up and pursue justice for Afghan girls and women. Five years after the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, I joined @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social to discuss the growing push for international justice:

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Since taking over Afghanistan five years ago, the Taliban has imposed a brutal and misogynistic regime. As I wrote in the @financialtimes.com today, international courts are their only avenue for justice. But at the same time, international justice is under attack.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The crises we face today are real. But we know in the communities closest to the harm is where we’ll find solutions. It’s heartening to be surrounded by leaders and community builders from every region of the world at UCLG World Congress. @open-society.bsky.social is proud to be your partner.

Open Society Foundations President Binaifer Nowrojee speaks at a session at UCLG World Congress Tangier.

Open Society Foundations President Binaifer Nowrojee interacts with event attendees at UCLG World Congress Tangier.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Universality was never meant to be uniformity. It does not require that the world speak with one voice. It is precisely the meeting of many traditions—cultural and legal, new and old, on every continent—that gives human dignity its true universality.

Open Society Foundations President Binaifer Nowrojee delivers remarks at CEU.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Nearly a decade ago, an authoritarian leader forced CEU out of Budapest. You did not watch the closing of a society from a distance. You lived it, and you persevered. That leader is now gone. Your commitment to open societies continues.

Open Society Foundations President Binaifer Nowrojee participates in a Presidential Lecture Series at CEU.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Today’s advocates of dignity and justice understand that the law alone will not save us. I say this as a lawyer who knows that the first international convictions for rape as an instrument of genocide came because the survivors I worked with refused to let prosecutors look away.

OSF President Binaifer Nowrojee delivers remarks at Chatham House.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

To honor the freedoms we were once most proud of, we must defend democratic institutions, protect everyone’s dignity, and resist the lie that rights are zero-sum. One standard—for Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine—because a standard applied selectively is no standard at all.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A multilateral system’s future depends on welcoming, not managing, a wider coalition—looking at who sits at the table, who sets the agenda. The same test falls on philanthropy: Support frontlines. Transfer power. Stand as allies, not saviors.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate have flared across the west, with each rising to record levels. But, as I write in the @theguardian.com, these two hatreds have rarely been seen as related dangers—let alone confronted as a common threat to societies.

Screenshot of a Guardian article with the headline, "Anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises. We must confront them together" by Binaifer Nowrojee.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As I discussed on the @womensagenda.bsky.social podcast, we have to both defend women’s rights and advance them. Having women in leadership positions isn’t a trade-off—it’s win for everyone.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Behind each social justice movement lies decades of organizing––women, LGBTQ+ communities, Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, care workers, and informal workers building power from the ground up, often at great personal cost. @womendeliver.bsky.social

Binaifer Nowrojee speaks during a plenary session at Women Deliver 2026.

A large audience is seated in a modern auditorium, attentively watching a presentation at Women Deliver 2026.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

At Women Deliver 2026, I’ve been inspired by courageous feminists on the frontlines of the fight for gender justice, often in the most difficult situations. From grassroots movements to feminist approaches to tech, thousands of women leaders are moving power where it belongs. #WD2026

Four women participate in a panel conversation at Women Deliver 2026.

A large crowd of conference attendees gathers at Women Deliver 2026.

A cultural performance takes place during Women Deliver 2026.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The children were learning in their classrooms when multiple U.S. Tomahawk missiles struck them in close succession, killing them and 26 teachers. Some children’s bodies were so badly burned that their remains could barely be identified. There are no traces of Makan’s body.

Mourners at the grave of a boy killed in an airstrike on an elementary school in Minab, Iran, on March 30, 2026. © Hamid Vakili/Anadolu/Getty

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Today, I’m thinking of Makan Nasiri, the only child whose remains have still not been found two months after the horrific massacre that killed more than 165 students at the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran on February 28.

A woman walks through memorial in Tehran for the children killed in a US airstrike in Minab, Iran, on April 22, 2026.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today, we mark South African Freedom Day and pay tribute to the countless South Africans who made immense sacrifices fighting for their own liberation, inside the country and outside it.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We hope the ceasefire holds, but can't ignore that conflict continues in Lebanon. @open-society.bsky.social stands with this coalition in affirming our calls for the laws of war to be upheld, especially the protection of civilians, and accountability for those who violate international law.

Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations and Experts Call for an End to Trump's Threats of War Crimes and Commit to Pursuing Accountability

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I was honored to join the Faith and Politics Institute’s Congressional Pilgrimage to South Carolina to visit historic sites from slavery and the Civil Rights movement. We explored lessons from America’s past—particularly the unfinished struggle for freedom and equal opportunity.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

On this International Women’s Day, I feel it's important to recognize that the anti-gender and anti-rights movement should, in some ways, be understood as a reaction to progress:

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Rights are not just given. They are always fought for. In this moment, we’re being called on to fight for them.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

More women now are graduating from university than men, and ever more women are taking up leadership roles in many spaces. As the role of women in society, we’ve seen attempts to push women back into “traditional” roles, as I said in at a @munsecconf.bsky.social event.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

We owe our fundamental freedoms to human rights defenders. I recently spoke @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social about the important work of protecting them, and standing by them as they don’t just defend rights but also advance them.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Next week I am headed to #COP30, where @open-society.bsky.social will continue conversations from UNGA and NY Climate Week. Ten years since the historic Paris Climate Agreement, the world is on track to exceed the 1.5°C limit. Just when multilateral cooperation is needed most, it is fraying.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

At #UNGA80, I joined the side event “From Ezulwini to an Equitable World Order.” 80 years since the UN’s founding, Africa still has no permanent seat on the Security Council.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Women’s leadership can deliver meaningful change. Women are at the heart of many liberation movements, as I emphasized in my recent lecture in Mexico City: osf.to/4n7sZA2

“When women are in positions of political leadership, they are more likely to pursue policies that advance sustainable development – from access to safe water to providing affordable healthcare.”
Binaifer Nowrojee, Open Society President

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

We at @open-society.bsky.social have always invested in young people in Africa. Our roots go back 45 years to the height of apartheid in South Africa, when our founder, George Soros, undertook his first major act of philanthropy by funding scholarships at the University of Cape Town.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I’m back from Mexico City where I had the pleasure meeting with a wide range of civil society partners, government officials, policymakers, grantees, and @open-society.bsky.social staff.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We just concluded a great visit to Ghana and Senegal, where we had the privilege of meeting with Presidents John Dramani Mahama and Bassirou Diomaye Faye, alongside civil society leaders, youth organizers and entrepreneurs, and changemakers.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We need a new, just, and equitable international order that creates possibilities for all countries to meet their potential. I was delighted André Corrêa do Lago, Shari Spiegel, and Thani Mohamed-Soilihi joined me to discuss this and more at @glblctzn.bsky.social NOW in Sevilla, Spain before #FfD4.

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

An unequal planet is an endangered planet and shows how the challenges the world faces are interlinked. These demand new ways of thinking and acting to tackle, as I outlined in a recent speech about the state of the world and how @open-society.bsky.social is helping: osf.to/43zpRGm

“The ravages of inequality are inextricably linked to the ravages of climate change. The same system that allows a tiny elite to amass unimaginable wealth also fuels environmental destruction, as corporations prioritize short-term profits over the long-term health of our planet.”

Binaifer Nowrojee, Open Society President

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Binaifer Nowrojee @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I’m delighted to have spent a week in South Africa delivering a series of lectures on the state of the world. Our world is changing fast, and the fight for human rights, equity, and justice has become more difficult – but even more necessary.

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