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Message from the Australian Network to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions: Dear Members and Supporters of the Australian Network to Ban Landmines and Cluster Munitions (ANBLC) We are calling for your help with our petition to the Government to amend the cluster munition legislation. We urgently need more signatures from both you and your wider…

“The strategic plan before you is our shared roadmap for the next few years,” Bachelet declared at the annual session of the agency’s executive board at the U.N. headquarters in New York. “Like any good map, it sets out a general direction to be followed. We will need to come back to it regularly to…

SI is delighted to announce that Soroptimist International has been selected to deliver an oral statement at this year’s ECOSOC High Level Segment. The theme this year is “Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to education”. As far as we are aware,  this is the first time SI has been selected to…

Last week (June 23rd) was First International Widows’ Day. The UN Resolution to mark this day was passed in February of this year. Here in New York, we celebrated this first International Widows’ Day with Michelle Bachelet, the head of UN Women, Mrs. Ban Soon-Taek, the wife of UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon and…

Today is the launch of the first ever UN International Widows’ Day, aimed at highlighting the plight of women all over the world who have lost their husbands. The UN says an estimated 115 million of the world’s 245 million widows face poverty and discrimination, with many deprived of their inheritance, land and even their…

Press release: 22 June 2011 Leadership poised to ensure an open, democratic forum for women’s voices at the UN June 17, 2011 – New York, NY – The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, NY (NGO/CSW/NY), one of three women’s committees of CoNGO that advocates for women’s rights and gender equality, today announced the…

  To take advantage of this last minute offer for all new bookings, contact si2011-montreal@jdpl.com For more information about the convention, visit www.si-montreal2011.org We look forward to seeing you there!    

The Executive Board’s Committee on International Non-Governmental Organizations held four meetings on 5 and 6 May 2011 to examine the “Relations with International Non-Governmental Organizations, Foundations and Similar Institutions”. The meetings were attended by 23 States Members of the Committee and 70 international non-governmental organizations. In his statement, Mr Eric Falt, Assistant Director-General for External…

At the 100th Session of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, the Convention on Domestic workers and the accompanying recommendation were adopted (June 2011) . Only last year the missing rights of a great majority of domestic workers had been widely discussed and  it was decided to proceed with the drafting of the Convention, which…

On June 9th, Anne Yedowitz, SI UN Representative for over 20 years, was remembered at a memorial service held at the UN Centre in New York. This message from SI Immediate Past President, Margaret Lobo, was read out in tribute to Anne. A full obituary will follow in this month’s TIS, out later this week. Many…