Category: News
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FGM – My Story #16Days
Today, 25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and Day One of the 16 Days of Activism. Today we deliver a powerful story written by Soroptimist Asha Abulrahman, and an equally moving video – both of which paint a very real and alarming picture of the dangers and lifechanging…
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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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Soroptimist International organises Side Event at Budapest Water Summit 2019
The third Budapest Water Summit took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 15-17 October 2019, under the theme ‘Preventing Water Crises.’
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Day of the Girl – Unscripted and Unstoppable
#DayofTheGirl – Sarah Cowley shares her thoughts on today, and her experience being part of Soroptimist International.
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Soroptimist International Meetings, Kuala Lumpur, July 2019
Deborah Thomas, SI Global Executive Director, reports on a series of SI meetings held prior to the SI Quadrennial International Convention in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Educating for Gender Justice: Stepping Stones to Achieving the SDGs
What does a healthy world look like? Is it one free of gender discrimination? Is caring for women and girls also caring for the future of the earth? Karen Marshall reports from the 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference.
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Empowering Women & Girls: The Only Way to Accomplish the UN SDGs
Jo Breneman reports from the 68th Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Aug 26-28, 2019.
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Dream It Be It – Breakout Session at Civil Society Conference USA
Soroptimists from Utah, local students and a high school counselor shared in a breakout session at a recent Conference of Civil Society. Looking at the SIA ‘Dream It, Be It: Career Support for Girls’, program, the session explored how girls are supported in staying healthy and safe, reducing the number of women in crisis in…