Category: News
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CSW61 Statement Release
CSW61 Written Statement Release 20 October, 2016 The sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 13 to 24 March 2017. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world will…
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Vienna: the global challenges of transnational organized crime
Around 800 government representatives, crime experts and civil society partners are expected to meet this week 17-21 October, to discuss the global challenges of transnational organized crime. The eighth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) promotes the strategies needed to counter crime based on…
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Reflection on the second session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly
From 20-21 September, Soroptimist International UN Representatives at Nairobi, Dr. Alice Odingo and Rose Mwangi attended a workshop, ‘Reflection on the second session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA 2) outcomes and climate change adaptation through a multi stakeholder approach: Post UNEA 2 workshop for East and Southern Africa’ at the UNEP headquarters in…
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Soroptimist Club Projects Opening Doors to Education – International Literacy Day
This year marks the 50th anniversary of International Literacy Day and UNESCO is celebrating it under the banner “Reading the Past, Writing the Future.” Watch a message from Soroptimist International President Yvonne Simpson. Video: UNESCO – Literacy opens doors to new worlds of possibility – Forest Whitaker UNESCO SI Lautoka, Fiji Literacy ‘Readathon’ Awards…
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Take 'Five Minutes With' Finance
Finances will play a key role in the forthcoming Soroptimist International Board Meeting, to be held in Cambridge, home of the SI Headquarters. SI will be drawing on the expertise of the Finance Committee and with this in mind, we take ‘Five Minutes’ to get to know a little about the team. HQ :…
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Protecting the Rights of Older Persons
Protecting the Rights of Older Persons: – The Open-ended Working Group on Ageing and the UN Treaty Bodies Technical briefing 19 August 2016, Geneva within the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Older people worldwide experience discrimination and the violation of their rights at family, community and institutional levels. Unprecedented global demographic…
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Meru Women's Garden Project 2016-2019
Child.org and SI Canterbury Club put together a proposal for the SIGBI Federation Project 2016-2019. Shortlisted to the final three out of seventeen, the three projects were invited to present at the SIGBI conference in Glasgow. A vote followed and the Meru Women’s Garden Project was selected as the SIGBI Federation Project for 2016-2019. …
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The Sky's the Limit – Soroptimists and the Diamond Education Grant
Soroptimist International Immediate Past President, Ann Garvie, SIGBI Federation President, Margaret Emsley, and Margaret Baker, Chief Steward for the SIGBI 2016 Malta Conference, took to the skies on 11 August, riding the fastest zip wire in the world!
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SI President’s Post: Flowers for Nepal
Meet Irene Bissett. Aged 92, mother of Wendy Logan, a Soroptimist from Nelson, New Zealand, Irene is knitting some of the stunning flowers being sold to raise money for Educate to Lead Nepal.
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HeForShe launch Cameroon
Launched by the UN Women in 2014 in New York, the ‘HeForShe’ campaign seeks to engage men and boys as advocates and agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights. On behalf of H.E President Paul Biya of Cameroon, the Prime Minister and Head of Government Philemon Yang has pledged…