Author: watchthedot
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Eyes on the Future – A Q&A with Ayushi Kundu
In the 2nd in our series of Q&A’s we talk to Soroptimist Ayushi Kundu, Coordinator for the SI President’s Appeal 2019-2021, ‘The Road to Equality’
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Eyes on the Future – A Q&A with Soroptimists
In the first in a series of Q&A’s we talk to Soroptimist Amrita Gautam
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International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation #SoroptimistSix
The SI Road to Equality #SoroptimistSix have been campaigning hard over the holidays, reaching an estimated total of 10,800,000 through their action and media campaigns. Proactively advocating and sharing their stories, Ifrah Ahmed, Sadia Hussein, Rugiatu Turay and Ayo Belo in particular, have all run extensive media campaigns – reaching even more people with their…
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World Cancer Day
Dr. Janet Maker is an inspiring speaker who presented twice during the Breast Cancer awareness month programme at SI Downey in Camino Real Region. She is the author of “The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Breast Cancer”, the story of her own journey and all the things she learned, designed to inform and empower others to…
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A Girl from Mogadishu #EndFGM
‘A Girl from Mogadishu’ is based on the testimony of global FGM activist Ifrah Ahmed, and one of the SI Road to Equality President’s Appeal, 2019-2021, #SoroptimistSix and is a film is written and directed by Mary McGuckian.
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CSW64 SI Webinar Ready to View
New to CSW? get to grips with an SI CSW webinar conducted by the SI United Nations Representatives from New York.
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The fifty-eighth Session of the Commission for Social Development
This year, CSocD is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Commission and the 25th anniversary of the Copenhagen Declaration on Social Development, and the priority theme will be ‘Affordable Housing and Social Protection Systems for all to Address Homelessness’.
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The sixty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women
The sixty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 9 to 20 March 2020. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from all regions of the world will join together with 100 delegates of Soroptimist International (SI).
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‘Lets Keep On Moving Forward’ toward Equality, Development and Peace
Let’s keep moving foreward! Dawn Marie Lemonds takes us back to 1995.
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Your Voice at the UN
This month’s edition discusses the future of education for women and girls, with news from SI UN Representatives at UNESCO, a comprehensive review of gender equality across the Asia Pacific region from SI’s UN Representative in Bangkok, and an introduction to the upcoming events to be held at the UN centre in New York.