Category: Blog
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Sisterhood on the Road: How a Coach Trip Made the Dublin Convention a Breeze
On a mild summer’s day, in a busy farm shop near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, two friends and sister Soroptimists sit with us to discuss their upcoming trip to Dublin. Linda Davis, Joint President SI Dewsbury & District and Programme Action Chair for SI Yorkshire, and Susie Westwood, President Elect of SI Yorkshire, have organised…
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Harmonising Menstrual Hygiene with Caring for the Environment!
By Mary Muia, SI UN Representative Nairobi Centre World Environment Day 2023 is hosted by Côte d’Ivoire and supported by the Netherlands. The theme will focus on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution and is a reminder that people’s actions on plastic pollution matters. This year’s theme highlights the urgent need for governments and…
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Environmental Advocacy and Impact: A look back to ESCAP78
A blog by Dr Theresa Devasahayam, SI UN Representative in Bangkok Registration is currently open for our webinar for World Environment Day 2023: Joining Forces to Beat Plastic Pollution! This webinar event will be held on Monday 5 June at 8:00am BST, where each of our five Federations will come together to showcase some of…
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Climate Action in the Making: Asia Pacific Country Commitments and Challenges
“Climate [action] is a core issue of our survival” (Jeffrey Sachs, 15 May 2023) Soroptimist International was represented by Dr Theresa Devasahayam at the 79th Session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP 79) held in Bangkok from the 15th to the 19th May 2023. The annual session is an…
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Looking back on…. CSocD
The 61st session of the Commission on Social Development (CSocD) took place 6-15 February 2023, at the United Nations Headquarters in NY. Under the chairmanship of Ambassador Alya Ahmed Saif Al-Thani of Qatar the session was held entirely in person for the first time since 2020. The priority theme for this session was “Creating productive…
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CSW67 in Numbers
CSW is one of the biggest events in the Soroptimist International calendar. Not only do we host our own Parallel Events, our Soroptimists participate as panellists for many more. A huge delegation attends the event in New York each year, and those who can’t attend in person join as virtual delegates, something which had continued…
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Summary of CSW67 Agreed Conclusions
The Agreed Conclusions for the sixty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) were confirmed by Member States on 17 March 2023. This year’s priority theme was “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.” The document will…
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The 2022 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons
Earlier this month in Vienna, SI Advocacy Advisor, Linda Witong, participated in and delivered a speech for the Interactive Presentation for Civil Society, addressing the Global report on trafficking in persons 2022. The 2022 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), provides a detailed overview…
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Internet for Trust
Blog of Marie-Christine Gries, SI UN Representative at UNESCO, Paris. UNESCO promotes the regulation of digital platforms. To eliminate disinformation, and the various hates messages that multiply on social networks, UNESCO aims to find a global consensus on the regulation of digital communication. Based on the Universal Principles of Human Rights, it would be possible…
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Values in Innovation: Women’s Engagement in Reimagining Digital Technologies
On Tuesday 7 March in New York, the Bahá’í International Community held an in-personal parallel event for CSW67. It was entitled “Values in Innovation: Women’s Engagement in Reimagining Digital Technologies” based around their statement to CSW67. There was a full room of like-minded delegates and representatives, including faith groups and NGOs such as Soroptimist International,…