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On Friday, May 23, 6 young people were murdered and 13 wounded in a deadly attack near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. The 22 year-old named by police as the killer, Elliot Rodger, also took his own life. Before he embarked on his deadly rampage,  Rodger warned of his intentions in…

  Celebrating Beijing+20 at the 58th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, March 2014 UN Women is calling on citizens across the globe to join the conversation on women’s rights in the run up to the 20th anniversary of the historic Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. The year-long Beijing+20 campaign will…

Soroptimist International’s Great Britain and Ireland Federation (SIGBI) will be participating in a Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in London on 10-13 June 2014, the largest gathering ever brought together to tackle this vital issue. "The widespread use of rape and other forms of sexual violence in armed conflicts around the world…

    Soroptimist International UN Representative Dr Alice Odingo has been attending the latest high level UN forum on disaster management in Abuja, Nigeria to underline the urgent and growing need to reduce the devastating and disproportionate impact of disasters on women and children worldwide particularly as these catastrophic events are occurring more often. Women…

  Students at Columba College, Dunedin, say #BringBackOurGirls Students from 35 New Zealand high schools have united to call for the safe return of the school girls abducated by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, in a campaign co-ordinated by high school student and Soroptimist Caitlin Addison. "These girls, their families and their communities are undergoing…

  NGOs from across Africa, including Soroptimist clubs, are invited to participate in an international UN Forum about promoting access to water for all, with a particular focus on the role of women and young people.  The forum, which will take place in Yamoussoukro (Côte d’Ivoire) on 30 and 31 July, is the second in…

Soroptimist International President Ann Garvie has called on Soroptimists to keep up the pressure for the safe return of over 250 schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria, while recognising this atrocity as a wake-up call for the world. “It’s hard even to imagine the scale of this vile crime: the girls rounded up from their dormitories, loaded…

  See bottom of page for updates to this article – last updated 14.7.2014 Soroptimist International of Nigeria is continuing to draw attention to the plight of over 200 schoolgirls abducted by militants from Chibok, in Borno State, Nigeria three weeks ago.  Although some girls have managed to escape, most are still missing.  "We are…

Soroptimists in Nigeria are joining protest marches and keeping pressure on the Government to secure the release of over 200 girls abducted by Islamist militants more than two weeks ago on 14 April. "Everyday I see the parents on the news and I feel their pain", says President of Soroptimist International of Nigeria, Funlola Buraimoh-Ademuyewo.…

  Schoolgirls in Zambia will receive solar lanterns to assist them in their studies, while women in Fiji will benefit from solar cookers thanks to President Ann Garvie’s See Solar, Cook Solar Appeal. These are the first two projects to be announced as beneficiaries of the December 10 Appeal; they were selected by the SIGBI…