Tag: water
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Celebrating World Water Day 2024
Blog of Janet Hall Schempf, from SI Anchorage, Alaska. In 1993, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly declared 22 March of each year World Day for Water. This day is set apart to raise awareness and appreciation of “the supply and quality of fresh water” and to promote water conservation and sustainable management. The importance…
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Women, Water and Climate Change: Roles and Risks Tackling the Challenges
Women, Water and Climate Change: Roles and Risks Tackling the Challenges, highlighted the importance of enabling and empowering women to contribute to effective climate action, and demonstrated the necessity of integrating gender-responsive approaches to climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.
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General Assembly: High-level Meeting on Water 18 March, 2021
In a somber but riveting session, our audience learned about how challenging our future is in relation to the water crisis. H.E Mr. Volkan Bozkir, the President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, began by relating how we were a long way from reaching our goals even before the COVID 19…
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Water, Sanitation, and Climate Action
SI Advocacy Advisor, Pat black reports from the UN High-Level Virtual Panel Meeting, ‘Accelerating Implementation of the 2030 Agenda through Water, Sanitation and Climate Action’.
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Findings from the UN World Water Development Report 2020
An informative review of the recently released United Nations World Water Development Report 2020 by SI Special Advisor to Advocacy, Linda Witong
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Soroptimist International organises Side Event at Budapest Water Summit 2019
The third Budapest Water Summit took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 15-17 October 2019, under the theme ‘Preventing Water Crises.’
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President’s Message: World Toilet Day
SI President’s Message on world toilet day. This year World Toilet Day focuses on wastewater, continuing the theme of World Water Day. Inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis, this annual event is an important day on the Soroptimist calendar.
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President’s Post: Rules of Water, Rules for Life
SI President Mariet will be speaking at the event ‘Rules of Water, Rules for Life’ in Milan on the theme of water as a legal asset and as a key element of sustainable development. Her speech will be on the role women play in the provision, management, and safeguarding of water.
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President’s Post: My thoughts are with all who are suffering
SI President Mariet Verhoef-Cohen writes from Stockholm World Water Week to express her sympathy with all who are suffering from the floods and disasters across the world.