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  • Red 'Tea' Anyone?

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    This week’s blog comes from SI’s new International Procedural Consultant, Carwen Wynne Howells, from the UK. Let’s face it, Soroptimists are a fairly sociable bunch who are not adverse to the odd glass or two of red or white ‘tea’ (i.e wine) and, whilst we may kid ourselves that we have a responsible attitude to…

  • SI Signs Statement on Mental Health and Noncommunicable Disease

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    In advance of the United Nations High-level Meeting on Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control, taking place next week, Soroptimist International supported a joint statement from the NGO Forum for Health (Geneva) and the NGO Committee on Mental Health (New York). The statement calls upon the Member States of the UN to include mental health as…

  • UN Women: Increasing Accountability and Development Effectiveness – Video Message

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    UN Women, the European Union and the Government of Rwanda recently held a high level meeting to discuss the role of Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting in increasing accountability and development effectiveness.  Taking place ten years after the 2001 High Level International Conference Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance through Gender-Responsive Budgeting, this global high level…

  • We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands!

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    Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the fourth in a series of special blog reports about the 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Here, International President Alice Wells, shares her experiences.    Sustainable development is about “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”  Balanced development…

  • DPI/NGO Blog Special: From "Who?" to "Wow!"

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    Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the third of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next few days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Here, Anusha Santhirasthipam, SI’s Assistant Programme Director, shares her experiences at the UN Environment Programme consultations which took place in Bonn immediately before DPI/NGO.  Soroptimist…

  • SI Attends UN Environment Programme Consultations in Germany

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    Dr Alice Odingo, SI Representative to the UN Environment Programme, recently attended two UNEP consultations in Bonn, Germany, along with SI International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam. On September 1st, our representatives attended the UNEP Consultation for Rio+20: "Engaging with Major Groups and Stakeholders on Rio+20: the Role of Civil Society in Shaping the Sustainable…

  • DPI/NGO Conference: On the Road to Rio+20

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    The third day of DPI/NGO opened with a round table on “Sustainable Development Governance: Issues from Local to Global”. The focus was on the role of citizen participation and much of the discussion spoke directly to the experience of civil society organisations and NGOs. Thierno Kane from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa explored…

  • DPI/NGO Conference: "Green is the New Brown"

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    The second day of DPI NGO opened with a roundtable on Green Economy and Poverty Eradication. In particular, the roundtable focussed on the green economy through the lens of climate change, and what this means for poverty eradication and economic growth in both the global north and the global south. The first speaker was Surveyor…

  • DPI NGO Blog Special: Care as an essential aspect of Sustainability

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    Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the second of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next ten days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Hilary Ratcliffe reports back on the rest of her DPI/NGO experience.   By now, moving towards the end of the third and final day of DPI/NGO,…

  • DPI NGO Blog Special: Networking for Change

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    Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the first of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next ten days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Hilary Ratcliffe is the first to report back on her busy day here in Bonn. We have just eaten lunch with representatives of Girl Guides from Germany where…