Tag: Year In Review October 2017
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President’s Message: Dutch Soroptimists sponsor new chair for Human Rights Education
The very first Dutch professor in Human Rights Education (HRE) in the Netherlands, Felisa Tibbitts, held her inaugural speech at the Utrecht University this week. This chair of HRE was funded by a legacy of Soroptimist Carla Looman and put in place in close cooperation with the Utrecht University and Soroptimists of the Netherlands.
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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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SI Announces Webinars for November 2017
November, sees the first in a series of exciting new interactive webinars organised by Soroptimist International for the Soroptimist membership. As part of the SI Leadership Development programme, November will see four Webinars covering SDG 5 & 6 and the President’s Appeal ‘Women, Water & Leadership’.
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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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Reaching Out To Rural Women
SI Club Ba, Fiji, ran a project called ‘SI Youths Reaching Out to Rural Women and Girls and Educating Them for Better Health & Better Life’, working with women from four villages of Navala, Namau, Nadrugu and Tabuquto, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji.
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Meet the SI NGO CSW/New York Interns for 2017/18
Each year, NGO CSW/NY has between five to eight interns to help facilitate the mission of the committee to achieve gender equality, and to help with the customer service during the actual Commission. Since 2016, Soroptimist International has sponsored the internship programme. Here, we get to know a little about the interns for 2017/2018.
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World Food Day 16 October
The official celebration of World Food Day on 16 October 2017 has the theme: ‘Change the future of migration. Invest in food security and rural development’. In a blog, SI UN Representative, Rome, Liliana Mosca reports on this weeks’ 44th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 44), 9-13 October 2017, held at…
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President’s Message: International Day of Rural Women
The coming week sees three notable International days, leading with, 15 October, The International Day for Rural Women, closely followed by World Food Day on 16 October and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October.
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President’s Post: International Day of the Girl Child
Dear Soroptimists, Since 2012, the United Nations adopted the International Day of the Girl Child and ever since, 11 October is marked as a critical moment to celebrate the power of girls and the fulfillment of their human rights, worldwide. Girls Day also highlights and addresses the needs and challenges girls face. For almost one…