Author: watchthedot
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Tackling domestic violence in the workplace – an SIA campaign
In the run-up to CSW57 and International Women’s Day on March 8, we will continue to focus on the issue of violence against women and girls. In this post, Lori Blair, Senior Director of Program Services at Soroptimist International of the Americas writes about the Soroptimist International of the Americas campaign to tackle domestic abuse in the workplace. In…
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Volunteering for a better society – highlighting the importance of service clubs at the Austrian Parliament
In this week’s SoroptiVoice blog, Herta Kaschitz, Governor of the Soroptimist International Austrian Union, writes about a discussion of the role of service clubs held at the Austrian Parliament. Herta has been a Soroptimist for 23 years, for 13 years in New York City (USA) and now at SI Wien-Belvere (Austria). As a lawyer, she worked for 27 years for the United…
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Save Li Yan: Domestic Violence in China
Soroptimist International is calling on the Government of China to withdraw the death sentence for a woman who killed her husband after suffering months of torture and to take immediate action against the disturbing level of domestic violence in the country. Li Yan, due to be executed any day, is currently being held at the Anyue County…
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Domestic Violence and Girls – from grass-roots action to international advocacy
Bette Levy is a member of Soroptimist International of Manhattan and one of SI’s Representatives to the United Nations in New York. In this week’s blog, she talks about her work on domestic violence with the Working Group on Girls, and how lessons from Soroptimist projects around the world will be used to help influence…
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International Women's Day – Enough is Enough, End Violence Against Women!
"We need to wake up to the danger that millions of women are facing each day. What better way to let our voice be heard than by standing on a bridge on 8th March 2013, and speaking out against Violence. Let’s do it. We owe it to us!". Talat Pasha, FPAC SI Pakistan. "We must…
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Flavia Agnes – fighting for women's rights through the law in India
In this week’s blog, Nisha Ghosh, Project Action Chair and Past President of SI Pune Metro East (India) writes about the club’s work on violence against women and introduces Flavia Agnes, a pioneering women’s rights lawyer and activist, who has worked for over twenty five years on issues of gender and law reforms in India. Flavia co-founded the MAJLIS centre…
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"It is time for us to stand united and raise our voices against violence" – International Women's Day
"We need to wake up to the violence that millions of women are facing each day. What better way to let our voice be heard than by standing on a bridge on the 8th March 2013, and speaking out against Violence!" Talat Pasha, Federation Programme Action Chair for SI in Pakistan, has called on Soroptimists around the…
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Slideshow – SI clubs in action!
Life-coaching in Iceland, school stationery in Madagascar, condoms in Kenya and books in Trinidad and Tobago; here are pictures of just a few of the recently-reported actions that Soroptimists have taken around the world to educate, empower and enable women and girls. You can read more about the projects below. A sale of second-hand clothes,…
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Welcome to "Our House" – a Project of Excellence for women and children in Turkey
The "Our House" (Evimiz) project in the city of Izmir in Turkey was one of the Soroptimist International "Projects of Excellence" highlighted in the 2011 Global Impact Report. This week’s SoroptiVoice blog is by Project Co-ordinator Yildiz Belger, a member of President of Goztepe Soroptimist Club since 1979, formerly Club President, Governor of SI/Turkey and SIE IGU Coordinator. Translation/editing by Lale Ersin, Program…
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SI President calls on Prime Minister of India to end violence against women
Soroptimist International has written to the Prime Minister of India to express shock and outrage at the recent horrific gang rape and murder of a young student in Delhi, and to call on the Indian Government to act “with passion and conviction” to prevent such acts of violence against women. “This particular case has come…