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SIE President Kathy Kaaf reports back from the Conference on the Proposed SI African Federation which took place in  Nairobi, Kenya, 22nd – 24th March 2012. "Kenya Strikes Oil“ was the headline of the “Daily Nation” on Tuesday 27th March when SIE President-Elect Ulla Madsen, SIE Vice President Christine Peer and I left Nairobi after…

SI UN Vienna Representatives, Roswitha Benesch and Martina Gredler, report back from the 55th Commission on Narcatic Drugs 12-16th March, 2012. In his opening speech at the 55th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), called for a real balance within drug policies, making health,…

International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam, reports back from the third Rio+20 intersessional meeting which took place in New York last week. From 19-27 March 2012, the SI UN Reps in New York and International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam, attended the first round of ‘informal-informal’ negotiations on the zero draft of the Rio+20 outcome…

International Assistant Programme Director Anusha Santhirasthipam reports back from a week of meetings at the UN centre in New York, focussing on Rio+20 preparations and the policy asks of the Women’s Major Stakeholder Group. “83 days to The Future We Want” says the countdown banner at the top of the official UN website on Rio+20. Leaders…

Soroptimist International is delighted to learn that past International Assistant Programme Director, Margaret Cook, has been selected to carry the Olympic torch as it passes through Yorkshire.  Margaret was nominated by her Soroptimist Club members to take part in the torch relay in Ilkley on June 24. She will be one of 8,000 people to…

Soroptimist International has received the 20th annual progress report for the Soroptimist International AIDS Mediation project. The report, covering 2011,shares details of the projects and initiatives first funded by Soroptimist International in 1995-1999. This quadrennial project, conducted in Chiang Rai province, Thailand, was designed to address the high rate of HIV infection in the region…

Soroptimist International is delighted to announce that an additional £25,700 has been raised by Soroptimists towards Project SIerra! This was SI’s quadrennial project (2007-2011) in Sierra Leone, carried out in partnership with Hope and Homes for Children. In 2003 Sierra Leone celebrated its first year of peace in over a decade. During the ten-year civil…

Soroptimist International of Europe, as part of the Women for Water Partnership, co-organized a pre-conference in Marseille, France in preparation for the 6th World Water Forum. During this two day conference, the weekend before the World Water Forum started, women from different women’s networks had the opportunity to exchange their knowledge and ideas as well…

As we await the final agreed conclusions from CSW 56, Soroptimist International shares its message to Governments and UN leaders alike. Soroptimist International, speaking on behalf of nearly 90,000 women worldwide, representing 3,000 local communities in 124 countries and territories, calls upon governments to recognise women and girls as the driving force which brings food…

International Women’s Day 2012: WECF, organising partner for the Women’s Major Group for Rio+20 states: the “Green Economy” needs Gender Equality In three months time, on 20-22 of June 2012, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Rio+20, will take place in Rio de Janeiro. 20 years after the historic Earth Summit, women’s participation…