Soroptimist International will be celebrating the benefits that equality for women brings for everyone on International Women's Day (8 March).   Following UN Women's announcement of their theme for this year's IWD, Equality for Women is Progress for All, SI will be producing a series of resources to promote understanding

February is proving to be a busy month for Soroptimist International's UN Representatives, New York. They recently attended the Opening Session to the 8th Session of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals held from February 3 - 7. UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka opened the Session

Soroptimist International's UN Representative in Geneva, Sabine Kinzer, who is part of the Non Governmental Organisation Group for the Commission on the Status of Women (NGO CSW) in Geneva, recently met with UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka shared with Sabine and the NGO CSW group what her

  Image: Winnie Maru (centre) at the Fifth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute in Nairobi earlier in January. Women’s rights activists from 17 countries across Africa, have issued a statement on FGM, calling on African Governments, civil society organisations and all women to take steps to eliminate the

Soroptimist International will be partnering with key organisations and speakers at this year’s CSW58 to host several side events. Our first side event entitled ‘Pink is the New Blue: Opening Doors for Women and Girls’ will explore the barriers faced by girls and women in entering into traditionally male-dominated fields,

Soroptimist International will be holding its first ever all-male panel for a side event at the Commission on the Status of Women, to highlight the need to break down barriers for men and boys in order to achieve gender equality. SI believes that attention must be paid to working with

  SI delegation at the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2013 In spite of the groundbreaking achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), women and girls are still poorer than their male counterparts.  In the run-up to the 58th Session of the UN’s Commission

  Soroptimists from the South Kolkata club are using solar power to help students at a remote school in West Bengal.  Inspired by SI President Ann's "See Solar, Cook Solar" Appeal, they have installed a 150 Watt solar panel at Jata High School on an island in the Sunderbans, covering

Soroptimist International is delighted that Dr Alice Odingo, our Lead UN Representative in Nairobi (Kenya) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Association of Women in Development (AWID), an international membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. “This achievement is a

Soroptimist Winnie Maru has been very busy, not only did she attend the Fifth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute in Nairobi for a week-long course designed to strengthen feminist leadership, but on the 9th January she also starred on KTN, a Kenyan television channel, on a show called