Category: Blog
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End FGM – A Day in the Life of the Soroptimist Six
Nina Smart follows the work of Rugiatu Turray, member of the Soroptimist Six, as she advocates to end the practice of female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone.
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Older Women’s Universal Right to Economic Security
Older women face disproportionate economic empowerment challenges. Immediate Past President, Sharon Fisher lead an important session at CSW66.
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Opening Doors to a Bright Future
Helen Harvey brings us the highlights from SI’s CSW66 Event, ‘Opening Doors to a Bright Future: Educating, Empowering and Enabling Women’.
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CSW66 Agreed Conclusions
Following many hours of discussion and negotiation, the Commission on the Status of Women in its 66th session (CSW66) finally adopted by consensus the Agreed Conclusions on the priority theme ‘Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies, and programmes.
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CSW66 – Grassroots Feminist Movement Responding to Climate Change
This CSW66 event focused on the feminisation of climate change by sharing women’s best practices from Nepal and Taiwan.
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CSW66 – A Reminder that Advocacy Work Is Ongoing
Our role as advocates is to continue to sound the alarm on the important issues addressed at CSW66 such as gender, climate, as well as old age.
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Women, Water and Climate Change: Roles and Risks Tackling the Challenges
Women, Water and Climate Change: Roles and Risks Tackling the Challenges, highlighted the importance of enabling and empowering women to contribute to effective climate action, and demonstrated the necessity of integrating gender-responsive approaches to climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.
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CSW66 – Women and girls as agents of change in climate-related conflict
Climate change and conflict are two of the biggest challenges facing the world today.
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New Paradigm for Women: Dignity Through Decent Work
Dawn Marie Lemonds brings us the highlights from Soroptimist International’s CSW 66 Side Event: ‘New Paradigm for Women: Dignity Through Decent Work’, 18 March.
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CSW66 – Women and Work: Increasing Leadership and Economic Equity
An event that addressed positive and negative aspects brought on by the pandemic, and how the pandemic has served as a catalyst to shift how women and employers are approaching the changing workplace.