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  • So What? Part One

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    One of the most powerful elements about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is their interconnectedness. Simply put, we cannot achieve one Goal without achieving the others.

  • SIA Taiwan Region participate in Human Trafficking & Leadership Workshops

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    SIA Taiwan Region participated in the 2018 International Workshop on Strategies for Combating Human Trafficking and the 2018 Workshop of Leadership Eminence Acceleration Program for Women in Asia Pacific. Helen Yang of the SIA Taiwan Region reports. “Since 2007, Taiwan government has been hosting International Workshop on Strategies for Combating Human Trafficking, and SIA Taiwan…

  • A USEFUL TOOL FOR SOROPTIMISTS – ADVOCACY GUIDEBOOK ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION –

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    A blog by SI United Nations (UN) Representative, New York Barbara Rochman INHERENT DIGNITY:  An Advocacy Guidebook to preventing trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and realizing the human rights of women and girls throughout their lives was launched at the UN Church Center in New York by Mercy International: Mercy Global Action at…

  • A WORD OR TWO ABOUT OLDER WOMEN

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    A blog by Frances Zainoeddin, SI Representative, New York,  “I urge Soroptimists everywhere to also pay attention to older women. In many countries they are ostracised, neglected and abused (including financial abuse), often by family members and care-givers.  Widows in some countries have no property rights and have no access to legal services.  Many older…