Author: watchthedot
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Shaping the world we want: Sustainable Development Goals after Rio+20
In last week’s blog, Anusha Santhirasthipam, Soroptimist International Assistant Programme Director looked at how individual decisions on food waste can make a difference. This week, she writes about how we can promote sustainable development on a global level, by contributing to the debate on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Post-2015 Development Agenda. A year ago, the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development looked at how to…
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#ThinkEatSave and Reduce Food Waste – World Environment Day 2013
Anusha Santhirasthipam, Soroptimist International Assistant Programme Director, writes about the need to reduce food waste, the theme for this year’s World Environment Day. Think. Eat. Save – an anti-food waste and food loss campaign is a wake-up call for all of us reduce our foodprint. It is the theme for this year’s World Environment…
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Water everywhere…..only if we share.
2013 is the International Year of Water Cooperation. UN Water have asked UNESCO to lead on this campaign in view of the organisation’s mandate to pursue goals of peace and sustainable development, natural sciences, culture, education, communication and its longstanding programmes contributing to the management of the world’s freshwater resources. The objective of the International…
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Slideshow Soroptimist Clubs News April 2013
April was a busy month for Soroptimist Clubs worldwide and many new initiatives were launched to educate, empower and enable opportunities for women and girls. Educational projects were a particular focus of many SI projects. Take a look at the reported activities of SI Clubs in India, UK ,USA, Fiji and more in the…
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Sustainable Optimism: Planting a Better Future for Girls
As World Environment Day (5 June) approaches, we’ll be focussing on environmental issues and women’s role in sustainable development. In this week’s blog, Nisha Ghosh of SI Pune Metro East (India) writes about an inspiring example of eco-feminism in Rajasthan. These last six months and more have brought the limelight onto to the darker sides of the condition of…
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Preparation, Co-ordination and Leadership – Soroptimist shares lessons from CSW on expert panel
Bette Levy, one of Soroptimist International’s UN Representatives in New York and a member of SI Manhattan, will be speaking at a meeting on 28 May to analyse lessons learnt at this year’s session of the Commission on the Status of Women, organised by the NGO Committee on the Status of Women. Other speakers include…
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UN Crime Commission Highlights Femicide, Human Trafficking and Environmental Crime
Femicide (gender-related killings), human trafficking and environmental crime were high on the agenda at the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, during its 22nd Session from 22-26 April. Soroptimist International’s UN representatives in Vienna, Roswitha Benesch, Dora Vrdlovec and Martina Gredler, were joined at the Commission by President-Elect Ann Garvie. The CCPCJ, organised by…
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A Stronger Voice for Women and Girls: Programme Team Meeting
Members of the Soroptimist International Programme Team gathered from nine countries for a rare face-to-face meeting last week to share experiences, discuss issues and plan future work to educate, empower and enable women and girls. The lead UN Representatives from Geneva, Vienna, New York, Paris and Nairobi all attended the meeting from 10-12 May,…
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Revelations From the Other Side of the Podium – From UN Officer to SI Rep
Luciana Marulli, a member of SI New York City, was recently appointed as one of Soroptimist International’s UN Representatives in New York. Luciana worked for the UN for many years, but in this post she writes about her first experience of attending a UN conference in her new capacity, representing SI at the Commission on the Status of Women in March…
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SIGBI's BIG Project – Reducing Maternal Mortality in Gambia
As many countries will be celebrating Mother’s Day this weekend, this week’s SoroptiVoice blog looks at a project to promote maternal health in Gambia. Over 60% of the 1.7 million population in the West African country live in extreme poverty. The risk of a pregnant woman or girl dying from complications of her pregnancy or giving birth to her baby…