Author: watchthedot
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CSW60 Pat Black Reports 13 March
by Pat Black Soroptimist International Director of Advocacy “Sunday saw us at the NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day in the historic 92Y theatre, listening to the Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and the current Chair of CSW, H.E. Ambassador Antonio de Agular Patriota. Exciting also to see SI representative to the UN in…
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CSW60 Soroptimist International Director of Advocacy 11 -12 March
by Pat Black, Soroptimist International Director of Advocacy. "I arrived in New York to some glorious warm sunny weather unlike previous years when we have struggled with daily minus temperature figures. I managed to register very quickly – again unlike past years when we had to wait in line for a long time, there was…
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#CSW60 – Soroptimist International Director of Advocacy Reports
Thursday 10 March 2016 "Thousands of women are starting to gather already in New York for the meetings which will be taking place ahead of this year’s Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations which will start on Monday 14 March. The gathering of so many women every year, each with…
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Soroptimists and 'HOME' helping migrant workers in Singapore
Soroptimists work with the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME) to help migrant workers in Singapore "Singapore, as in many countries in Asia and the Middle-East, is heavily reliant on a foreign labour force economic growth. Out of the 1.3 million migrant workers in Singapore as of 2014, the bulk of the migrant workers are…
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Eliminating Violence Against Women & Girls: CSW60 Oral Statement Released
Violence against women and girls is a fundamental human rights violation being committed on a pandemic scale. This year the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) will focus on two themes, with one being ‘the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls’. Soroptimist International, joined by a range of…
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Soroptimists offer relief to the people of Chennai
Picture: Chennai airport "1 December 2015 recorded the highest rainfall in the city of Chennai – a one hundred year record was demolished. Climate change – a global concern – became a rude reality in a matter of hours for this city of 8.2 million. By 1 December in the afternoon, the water in…
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Alice Wells & Dawn Marie Lemonds – News from SWCAT
The Southwest Conference Against Trafficking (SWCAT) was held at the Ontario Airport Hotel and Conference Center, Ontario, CA January 15 -17, 2016. With five Soroptimists on the planning committee, The National Women’s Coalition Against Violence & Exploitation (NWCAVE) presented SWCAT, together with its partner Crittenton Services and San Bernardino County Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation. Here,…
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UN Rep Marie D’Amato-Rizzi reports from the United Nations Commission for Social Development
Let Your Voice Be Heard "Each year in early February the United Nations Commission for Social Development (CSocD) meets for 10 days. This year all eyes are on that Commission as it is the first one to meet since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September, 2015. It…
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UN Rep Bette Levy on what makes the SI global network so powerful
"When we work together as the Global Network we are very powerful." "One of the things that I love the most about being a Soroptimist is the international or global aspect, getting to meet women from around the world and having an immediate bond because we know we share similar passions. Being a Soroptimist here…