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CSW62 Soroptimist Advocacy Resources
Welcome to the Soroptimist International Advocacy Resource Pack. This pack should equip Soroptimists with key information to support you in your advocacy work at CSW62, making it possible for Soroptimists to speak with a global voice for women and girls. Please keep the pack with you whilst you attend events and meet with members of…
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International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM
Female Genital Mutilation – FGM – is a global issue that continues to present challenges for Soroptimists when attempting to improve the lives of women and girls. Though a difficult subject to discuss, it is important that we face the ugly truth about FGM.
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Watch CSW62 Webinar One – An Introduction
The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018. A Soroptimist delegation will join representatives of Member States, UN entities, and other ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from all over the world. This year the priority theme will…
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Making Women and Girls’ Rights and Well-Being ‘Standard’ Practice
A blog by SI UN Representative in Geneva, Angela Sauvage, who began her role in November 2017. Angela advocates for fair and humane migration and immigration policies and powerful partnerships that promote gender equality and education of women and girls. Angela is an international brand marketing strategist centred on building brands and organisations with passion and…
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Soroptimists Working to End Modern Day Slavery
The 3rd Biennial Southwest Conference Against Trafficking (SWCAT), took place in Ontario California, from 11 – 13 January 2018. Over 200 conference participants gathered together from 8 states in USA, and two countries – approximately 30 of whom were Soroptimist members.
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#4 Your Voice at the United Nations
This edition of ‘Your Voice at the United Nations’ includes articles on the Global Compact on Migration and UN Environment Assembly. NGO-CSW Vienna In November 2017, SI UN Representative in Vienna, Martina Gredler was re-elected as chair of NGO-CSW Vienna. On 24 November, ACUNS/NGO CSW Vienna/UNODC/Committee on Ageing partnered to present an event on…
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Sharon Fisher announced SI President Elect
Soroptimist International President Mariet Verhoef-Cohen is delighted to announce Sharon Fisher, as the new SI President Elect.
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SI President’s Message: Wishing you a peaceful and successful 2018
Watch a video message from SI President Mariet Verhoef-Cohen to Soroptimists around the world.
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The Mwihoko Women Group, Kenya and the SI President’s Appeal
The first of five projects to be supported on five continents, the International President’s Appeal 2017-2019, ‘Women, Water & Leadership’ is funding the Mwihoko Women Group in Kenya, which formed in 2005, with the aim of improving the economic and social livelihood of its membership of 22 women.