Noor Azizah is an award-winning Rohingya human rights advocate, academic, and educator with over a decade of experience working across refugee-led initiatives, community advocacy, and international policy spaces. Born in Myanmar’s Arakan State, Noor is a survivor of the ongoing Rohingya genocide. As a child, she and her family were forcibly displaced and endured statelessness, homelessness, hunger, and repeated displacement while fleeing military violence. At the age of eight and a half, she resettled in Sydney, Australia. Noor is the Co-Executive Director of the Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network (RMCN), a Rohingya-led, Indigenous-led, women-led, and refugee-led organisation working across human rights, sexual and gender-based violence, education, narrative change, and translocal solidarity. Her work places particular emphasis on supporting Rohingya women who have survived genocide, trafficking, and systemic violence, and on ensuring that refugee-led leadership informs decision-making at local, national, and international levels. Noor’s leadership has been recognised through several national awards, including being named Marie Claire Women of the Year – Voice of Now (2025).
