In advance of the United Nations High-level Meeting on Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control, taking place next week, Soroptimist International supported a joint statement from the NGO Forum for Health (Geneva) and the NGO Committee on Mental Health (New York). The statement calls upon the Member States of the UN

UN Women, the European Union and the Government of Rwanda recently held a high level meeting to discuss the role of Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting in increasing accountability and development effectiveness.  Taking place ten years after the 2001 High Level International Conference Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance through Gender-Responsive

Dr Alice Odingo, SI Representative to the UN Environment Programme, recently attended two UNEP consultations in Bonn, Germany, along with SI International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam. On September 1st, our representatives attended the UNEP Consultation for Rio+20: "Engaging with Major Groups and Stakeholders on Rio+20: the Role of Civil

The third day of DPI/NGO opened with a round table on “Sustainable Development Governance: Issues from Local to Global”. The focus was on the role of citizen participation and much of the discussion spoke directly to the experience of civil society organisations and NGOs. Thierno Kane from the Open Society

The second day of DPI NGO opened with a roundtable on Green Economy and Poverty Eradication. In particular, the roundtable focussed on the green economy through the lens of climate change, and what this means for poverty eradication and economic growth in both the global north and the global south.

This was the message from the mayor of Bonn during his opening address at the welcome ceremony at the 64th DPI/NGO Conference. As we move towards Rio+20 where the DPI/NGO theme of sustainability societies  will be top of the agenda, this was both an intimidating and inspiring opening thought. This