Noor Azizah is an award-winning Rohingya human rights advocate, academic, educator, and refugee leader with more than a decade of experience shaping international policy conversations, leading community-driven responses, and speaking on global stages.
 

A survivor of the ongoing Rohingya genocide, Noor was forcibly displaced from Myanmar’s Arakan State as a child. She endured statelessness, homelessness, hunger, and life-threatening journeys through jungles while fleeing military violence. At the age of eight and a half, she resettled in Sydney, Australia. These lived experiences are not a backdrop to her work—they are the foundation of her authority as a global voice on displacement, gendered violence, and justice.
 

Noor is the Co-Executive Director of the Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network (RMCN), a Rohingya-led, women-led, and refugee-led organisation working across human rights, sexual and gender-based violence, education, narrative change, and translocal solidarity, grounded in a women, peace, and security framework. Her leadership centres Rohingya women who have survived genocide, trafficking, and systematic violence—ensuring their voices shape solutions at local, national, and international levels.
 

In parallel, Noor is an academic at the University of Sydney and an English as a Second Dialect specialist educator, with formal training in education and peacebuilding. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary & TESOL) and a Master of Peace and Conflict Studies, and brings a rare ability to bridge lived experience, academic rigour, and policy impact.
 

Her leadership has been widely recognised. In 2025, Noor was awarded Marie Claire Women of the Year – Voice of Now, recognising her national and global influence. She is also a recipient of the NSW Young Women of the Year Award (2024), a Finalist for NSW Young Australian of the Year (2025), a Global Citizen Youth Leader (2024), and a Finalist for the Australian Muslim Achievement Awards 2025 in the category of Australian Muslim Role Model of the Year. She has additionally received the Stellar South Asian Women Award for Outstanding Global Impact and has been named among Australia’s leading women in international affairs.
 

A sought-after speaker and media commentator, Noor regularly appears on Al Jazeera, France 24, and SBS News, providing expert analysis on genocide, statelessness, forced displacement, hate speech, and the gendered impacts of conflict.
 

A trailblazer in advocacy, Noor has delivered key interventions and spoken alongside global leaders and senior figures, including UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Cate Blanchett, human rights advocate and former Socceroo Craig Andrew Foster, author and broadcaster Adam Liaw, and Gillian Triggs, Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at UNHCR. She has also engaged directly with Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, reflecting her sustained involvement at the highest levels of global refugee and protection policy.
 

Noor has served as a refugee delegate and expert at the United Nations, including at the Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, and was appointed a refugee expert for the 2023 Global Refugee Forum, contributing to international pledges on gender-based violence, education, and statelessness. She is a Member of Australia’s inaugural Refugee Advisory Panel, has contributed to UNHCR-led and government advisory bodies, and is part of UN Women’s 30 for 2030 (2024–2025).
 

Noor Azizah is known for delivering powerful, grounded keynotes that cut through abstraction—connecting global crises to human consequences, and policy to lived reality. Her work bridges grassroots survival with international decision-making, offering audiences clarity, urgency, and a call to act.