Author: watchthedot
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CSW Blog Special!
Wow – it is now one year since we launched the SoroptiVoice Blog at CSW 55! And now we are back again, reporting live from CSW 56! Thank you to our team of Soroptimist delegates who will be keeping us up to date with all the latest news from New York. To start the week,…
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49th Commission for Social Development
UN DESA Press Release “For 50 years, we have been working together to ensure that development is primarily about people,” underscored Mr. Sha Zukang, UN DESA’s Under-Secretary-General and the Rio+20 Secretary-General, at the opening of the 50th session of the Commission for Social Development on February 1st. The session, with its priority theme “Poverty eradication”, was…
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UNESCO: Placing Humanity at the Heart of Development
Have you ever wondered what role UNESCO plays? Here, SI UNESCO Representatives Marie Christine De La Barbelais and Dominique Mertz report back from the 36th UNESCO Conference where the role and achievements of UNESCO in 2011 were reviewed: This was the title of the opening statement to the 36th UNESCO Conference which took place at…
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SI Attends UNESCO NGO Meeting on Sustainable Development
SI UNESCO Representaive, Rina Dupriet, attended the January meeting of the NGO Joint Programmatic Commisson for Sustainable Development. Severals proposals were forwarded for consideration by Rio+20, closely matching the priorities of Soroptimist International: – Poverty eradication – Creation of safe water supplies – Empowerment of people through education and leadership for women – Improvement of…
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Reaching out to Rural Women
This week’s SoroptiVoice blog comes from Linda Bradbrook, President of SI Mendocino-Sonoma Coas, and Carole Bennet, President of SI Novato. Together, these ladies are developing an innovative project providing IT training to rural women in the USA. CSW56 opens on Monday and the priority theme is centred on rural women. However, often the difficulties facing…
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SI Address Ministers for Environment at Nairobi Meetings
Last week, SI UN Representatives Alice Odingo and Rose Mwangi attended a series of meetings at the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi. Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum (GMGSF): 18-19th February SI attended the second day of the meeting. A great deal of discussion centred on Rio+20 and how success at the conference would…
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International Women's Day 2012: Join Me on the Bridge!
Women, men and children came out in force to celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2011 with Women for Women International’s Join me on the Bridge campaign. There were 464 events in 70 countries on 6 continents worldwide – and Soroptimists were there too! SI Cambridge, UK (above) and SI Karachi…
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Kenyan Adventures – Soroptimist Spirit in Action!
This week’s SoroptiVoice blog comes from Cathy Coyte, member of SI The East Bay in Founder Region of SIA. Cathy had the honour of attending a club charter in Kenya at the end of last year. She first went to Kenya in 2001 to visit Soroptimist friends and she was made to feel so welcome that she…
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Cambodian Child's Dream Organisation: Youth Action
This week’s SoroptiVoice Blog is fom Friends of Cambodian Child’s Dream Organisation – one of the fantastic organisations SI is working with during CSW 56. Here they share a particular scheme run for American youth so if you are a member of SIA USA and think this could be of interest to any youth in…
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UN Member States Agree: Good Health Requires Mental Well Being
In September, Soroptimist International joined with over 90 NGOs to sign a statement calling upon the Member States of the UN to include mental health as a non-communicable disease (NCDs), in recognition of the fact that good health requires mental well being in addition to physical well being. This was presented during the UN General…