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Soroptimist International will be partnering with key organisations and speakers at this year’s CSW58 to host several side events. Our first side event entitled ‘Pink is the New Blue: Opening Doors for Women and Girls’ will explore the barriers faced by girls and women in entering into traditionally male-dominated fields, primarily in Science, Technology, Engineering…

Soroptimist International will be holding its first ever all-male panel for a side event at the Commission on the Status of Women, to highlight the need to break down barriers for men and boys in order to achieve gender equality. SI believes that attention must be paid to working with men and boys and breaking…

  SI delegation at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2013 In spite of the groundbreaking achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), women and girls are still poorer than their male counterparts.  In the run-up to the 58th Session of the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women…

  Soroptimists from the South Kolkata club are using solar power to help students at a remote school in West Bengal.  Inspired by SI President Ann’s "See Solar, Cook Solar" Appeal, they have installed a 150 Watt solar panel at Jata High School on an island in the Sunderbans, covering five electric points for lights…

Soroptimist International is delighted that Dr Alice Odingo, our Lead UN Representative in Nairobi (Kenya) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Association of Women in Development (AWID), an international membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights. “This achievement is a wonderful accolade for you personally…

Soroptimist Winnie Maru has been very busy, not only did she attend the Fifth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute in Nairobi for a week-long course designed to strengthen feminist leadership, but on the 9th January she also starred on KTN, a Kenyan television channel, on a show called the ‘Morning Express’. Winnie passionately…

Winnie Maru from Soroptimist InternationaI Eldoret in Nairobi recently attended the Fifth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute in Nairobi for a week-long course designed to strengthen feminist leadership, strategies and collective power for social transformation in Africa with general messages for all women’s rights activists around the world. With participants from all over…

Soroptimist International President Ann Garvie will overcome her fear of heights and take to the skies to raise funds for “See Solar, Cook Solar”, her December 10 Appeal to provide solar lamps and cookers to women and girls around the world, while providing education about renewable energy. “Many of you will have made New Year…

Four new Soroptimist representatives have joined our dynamic UN teams in New York and Paris to take over the influential international advocacy roles of retiring Soroptimist delegates. Soroptimist International’s UN representatives are active at all six major UN centres.  With SI’s General Consultative Status at the UN, these expert volunteers are able to speak out…

  Soroptimists Nisha Ghosh and Naina Shah from India have visited the UN in Vienna to share information about femicide and agencies working to support women and girls in their country.   The visit was arranged by SI’s lead UN Representative in Vienna, Dora Vrdlovec, and included a meeting with Civil Affairs Officer (Advocacy Section) Mirella…