Tag: Advocacy
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Your Voice at the United Nations
This edition of ‘Your Voice at the United Nations’ features articles relating to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and the Construction of World Citizenship.
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CSW63 SI Written Statement
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019. The Priority theme is Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. Read a joint…
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#3 Your Voice at the United Nations
The third edition of ‘Your Voice at the United Nations’ includes articles on Corporate Social Responsibility and Trafficking in Crisis Situations.
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#2 Your Voice at the United Nations
October – November’s edition of ‘Your Voice at the United Nations’ includes articles on the Climate-Change Migration nexus and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty ‘A Sustainable Society for All Ages: Realising the potential of living longer’ The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s Ministerial Conference on Ageing was held from 21-22 September…
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CSW62 Written Statement
The sixty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 23 March 2018. The theme is Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls. For the empowerment of rural women of all ages and girls…
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Your Voice at the United Nations
September – October 2017 In the first in a new series – we introduce ‘Your Voice at the United Nations’ – a regular round-up of advocacy news from the SI UN Representatives across the UN Centres. ‘Literacy, Lifelong Learning, A Sustainable Future for All’ On September 11, 2017, Soroptimist International France organised a day of…
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Towards a Pollution Free Planet
A blog by Dianne Lockwood, Programme Director, Soroptimist International of South West Pacific. The Asia Pacific Civil Society Forum and UN Ministerial on the Environment took place in Bangkok from 4 – 8 September, all meetings were in preparation for UNEA-3 which will take place 4 – 6 December in Nairobi under the theme, A…
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A Closer Look at Leadership – Part Two
In the second part of our series ‘A Closer Look at Leadership’, we hear from SI Director of Advocacy 2015-2017, Pat Black, SI Assistant Director of Advocacy Sharon Fisher, and from Bette Levy, Marie-D’Amato-Rizzi and Frances Zainoeddin, SI UN Representatives in New York