Soroptimist International Written Statement relevant to CSW59

Soroptimist International is a grassroots organisation that speaks on behalf of 80,000 women from 3,000 communities, across 130 countries and territories worldwide. Since 1921, Soroptimists have united around the principles of educating, empowering and enabling women and girls locally, nationally and internationally. All of Soroptimist International’s positions are based on

SI Project Stories October

SI Townsville Breakwater, North Queensland, Australia Mother and Baby Pack   In rural Papua New Guinea many women and teenage girls visit the rural health centres to give birth, and many of them do not have baby care items for their new born babies. SI Townsville Breakwater provided free baby

Soroptimists advocate for women and girls at CEDAW

SOROPTIMIST REPRESENTATIVE ADVOCATES FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS AT CEDAW The 65th session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is taking place in Geneva 24 October – 18 November 2016. Soroptimist International’s UN Representatives in Geneva, Wilfreda Hendrickx, Sabine Kinzer and

The challenges that nature poses to humans, and humans pose to nature

UN Representative to Rome, Liliana Mosca, attended the 43rd session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which took place in Rome from 17-21 October, one day after World Food Day, 16 October. The objective of the CFS is ‘to improve the food security and nutrition of populations affected

CSW61 Statement Release

  CSW61 Written Statement Release   20 October, 2016 The sixty-first session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 13 to 24 March 2017. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all

Vienna: the global challenges of transnational organized crime

Around 800 government representatives, crime experts and civil society partners are expected to meet this week 17-21 October, to discuss the global challenges of transnational organized crime. The eighth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) promotes the strategies needed

Reflection on the second session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly

From 20-21 September, Soroptimist International UN Representatives at Nairobi, Dr. Alice Odingo and Rose Mwangi attended a workshop, ‘Reflection on the second session of the United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA 2) outcomes and climate change adaptation through a multi stakeholder approach: Post UNEA 2 workshop for East and Southern Africa’

Take 'Five Minutes With' Finance

  Finances will play a key role in the forthcoming Soroptimist International Board Meeting, to be held in Cambridge, home of the SI Headquarters. SI will be drawing on the expertise of the Finance Committee and with this in mind, we take 'Five Minutes' to get to know a little

Protecting the Rights of Older Persons

Protecting the Rights of Older Persons: - The Open-ended Working Group on Ageing and the UN Treaty Bodies Technical briefing 19 August 2016, Geneva within the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Older people worldwide experience discrimination and the violation of their rights at family, community and
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