Category: News
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CSW62 Soroptimist Advocacy Resources
Welcome to the Soroptimist International Advocacy Resource Pack. This pack should equip Soroptimists with key information to support you in your advocacy work at CSW62, making it possible for Soroptimists to speak with a global voice for women and girls. Please keep the pack with you whilst you attend events and meet with members of…
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Watch CSW62 Webinar One – An Introduction
The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018. A Soroptimist delegation will join representatives of Member States, UN entities, and other ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from all over the world. This year the priority theme will…
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#4 Your Voice at the United Nations
This edition of ‘Your Voice at the United Nations’ includes articles on the Global Compact on Migration and UN Environment Assembly. NGO-CSW Vienna In November 2017, SI UN Representative in Vienna, Martina Gredler was re-elected as chair of NGO-CSW Vienna. On 24 November, ACUNS/NGO CSW Vienna/UNODC/Committee on Ageing partnered to present an event on…
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Sharon Fisher announced SI President Elect
Soroptimist International President Mariet Verhoef-Cohen is delighted to announce Sharon Fisher, as the new SI President Elect.
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International Migrants Day
In 2000, the General Assembly, named 18 December, International Migrants Day. The theme for 2017 is Safe Migration in a World on the Move. Earlier this year, Ulla Madsen, Past President of Soroptimist International of Europe, made a presentation as a panellist at the side event ‘Safeguarding unaccompanied migrant minors from going missing’. Held at the 26th…
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Alternative Rite of Passage – empowering young girls on the subject of FGM
CIFORD Kenya, run by Margaret Ikiara, an SI Meru member, ran the Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP) seminars, aimed at teenagers under pressure from peers and the community to undergo FGM.
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Towards a Pollution Free Planet – UNEA3
The UN Environment Assembly, the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment, gathers in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution, and more specifically Water Pollution, Land Pollution, Marine Pollution, Air Pollution, and Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste
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SI of the Americas – Supporting a woman’s dream to become an educator
The Soroptimist Live Your Dream Awards assist women who provide the primary source of financial support for their families, by giving them the resources they need to improve their education, skills and employment prospects. Each year, more than : $2.1 million in education grants are awarded to more than 1,500 women. This year, SIA is…
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International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
The UN International Day for the Abolition of Slavery is annually held on 2 December to raise awareness of the atrocities of modern slavery. The focus of this day is on eradicating all forms of slavery, such as child labour, forced marriage, forced labour, bonded labour, and the forced recruitment of children for use in…
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Railing Against Abuse – Dame Joan Collins joins Soroptimists to march against violence
Hosted by Soroptimist International of Weston-super-Mare, ‘RAILING AGAINST ABUSE’ saw Dame Joan Collins join Soroptimists and others on a march on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.