Without ensuring that financing for development compliments the needs of sustainable development, it will be impossible to make the transformative change that governments committed to in 2015. SI UN Rep Marie D'Amato-Rizzi attended the ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development (FfD Forum) which followed up on decisions made at the

  Just before midnight, on the 24 March, governments, civil society and other organisations celebrated the adoption of CSW60’s agreed conclusions. These celebrations came after nearly 80 hours of negotiations, and the conclusions will help develop how gender equality will be included in development efforts moving forward. “Countries gave gender

In a message for International Day of Sport for Development and Peace,  6 April, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said: "Sport promotes health and well-being. It fosters tolerance, mutual understanding and peace. ... It empowers, inspires and unites."   During the Soroptimist International 16 Days of Activism campaign, we had the opportunity

  Image:  Rt. Hon President Mrs. Bidhya Devi Bhandari shaking hands with Prince Harry at the Inaugural Session of the Nepal Girl Summit. DPM Mr. CP Mainali looks on. Photo by Prakash Mathema  NEWS: KATHMANDU, 23 March 2016 – On Wednesday March 23rd Nepal hosted its first ever Girl Summit

Ann Garvie, Soroptimist International Immediate Past President 2013-2015, brings news of the Conference on the Future Federation of Africa, held in Madagascar on 17- 19 March 2016, the second all African meeting, following the event held two years ago in Pretoria, South Africa.     Image: SIE Immediate Past President

Violence against women and girls is a fundamental human rights violation being committed on a pandemic scale. This year the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) will focus on two themes, with one being ‘the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls’.  Soroptimist International,

Soroptimist International congratulates Martina Gredler on being elected Chair of NGO CSW Vienna. This wonderful achievement acknowledges Martina’s dedicated work representing SI at the United Nations in Vienna since 2011. International Director of Advocacy Pat Black shares her congratulatory message: “Through Soroptimist International we know that Martina is an extremely

The Paris Climate Conference (officially known as COP21) was the first time in over twenty years of UN negotiations where the aim was to achieve a legal and universal agreement on climate change. This landmark conference came after years of various climate change negotiations that produced the Kyoto Protocol and