Author: watchthedot
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SI Road to Equality – #ENDFGM & the Soroptimist Six
Soroptimist International is delighted to announce its first collaboration on The Road to Equality, the SI President’s Appeal, 2019-2021. Working with the highly influential Global Media Campaign to End FGM, SI Road to Equality is to support the Soroptimist Six, inspired and determined women activists making a difference in their own countries, to bring Female…
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Your Voice at the UN
This month’s edition focuses on the Beijing +25 Review Forum held in Geneva, 28-29 October. The forum gathered together member states and civil society actors to review progress made in achieving gender equality across the UNECE region since the the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was first adopted in 1995.
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FINANCING FOR GENDER EQUALITY
SI Statements Advisor, Pat Black explains that gender budgeting is not a cost, it’s an investment.
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The Journey to Age Equality
SI UN Representative, Marion Prechtl reports from the Symposium on Aging in Vienna and explains the role of new technologies and artificial intelligence in improving the well being of older persons.
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Rural Women Entrepreneurs as Agents of Change
A blog by SI UN Representative, Kristin Reynisdottir and SI Advocacy Coordinator, Hannah Agius following their attendance at a panel discussion regarding the role of women’s resource centres in providing entrepreneurial opportunities for women in rural communities.
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Gender Equality: areas of progress vs. key obstacles
SI Advocacy Coordinator, Hannah Agius takes her first look inside the UN office of Geneva and summarises her key takeaways from the Beijing Platform for Action+25 Regional Review Forum.
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Beijing+25 – Ending Violence against Women and Girls
The Beijing+25 Regional Review Meeting provided a forum for The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) member States, to review progress and identify challenges in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action. Held on 29-30 October 2019 in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, the event was jointly organised by UNECE, one of five…
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Nairobi Central – The Chartering of a New Club with Forty Soroptimists
A blog covering the launch of ‘My Book Buddy’ at the Kawethei Primary School in Kangundo, Machakos County, and a celebration with the inauguration of the new Nairobi Central Club.
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Building a Girl Force – UNESCO 2019
The celebration of the International Girl Child’s day on 11 October 2019 at UNESCO, Paris, was organised in cooperation with Plan International. It opened with the presentation of the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education.
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Thinking on it – Mariet Verhoef-Cohen at the 85th SIGBI Conference
President Mariet welcomed everyone and remarked that as Bournemouth styles itself the ‘Coast with the most’ today, it must be the Coast with the most Soroptimists! A fitting place therefore for this her final official SI President’s presentation.