SI was privileged to take part in the Commonwealth’s ‘Women as Agents of Change’ competition, launched to celebrate the theme of Commonwealth Day 2011. Although we were restricted to only 3 nominations we received many fantastic submissions. This week, we will be running a special blog series to celebrate all the nominations – a fitting close to a month where women have been celebrated across the Commonwealth!

Kate Moore – United Kingdom

Kate was awarded an MBE for ‘Services to the Disabled’ in the 1993 New Years Honours list. 

Since 2005, Kate has been a director of AOAV (Action on Armed Violence) which was formerly the Landmine Action/UK Arm of ICBL (International Campaign to Ban Landmines). Since 2003 she has worked closely with Cluster Muntion Coalition (CMC) in the UK and overseas.

Kate is an active campaigner, arranging campaigns through Landmine Action and Soroptimist International in the

UK to raise awareness of cluster munitions and explosive remnants of war. She worked with Landmine Action/Cluster Munition Coalition from the start of the Oslo Process at the UN in

Geneva in 2006 which resulted an international ban on cluster munitions in December 2008. 

Kate was closely involved in this process. As a member of the
CMC, she actively participated in Government Conferences worldwide, including the first  Meeting of States Parties in

Laos.  Kate also joined the Soroptimist delegation at DPI 2009 where she spoke at UNDPI in

Mexico for SI and
CMC.

We will continue to share our Soroptimist Commonwealth Agents of Change every morning and afternoon this week. We hope you will continue to follow our celebratory blog postings! If this is your first visit, please take some time to visit the posts for Monday and Tuesday!