Four months on since President Alice Wells launched the Birthing in the Pacific Appeal for a second year, the project is making real progress in improving healthcare for women in Papua New Guinea during pregnancy and childbirth. Since September 2012, Soroptimists have raised $207,871(AUD) to support the project.   You can

  With a global day of action, Enough is Enough: End Violence Against Women, on International Women's Day  and the UN's Commission on the Status of Women, March was a busy month for many Soroptimists around the world.  Take a look at some of the photos of clubs in action in India, Kenya, Fiji, Lithuania, Australia, Canada,

Soroptimist International has written to outgoing Head of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, to express appreciation for her “strength and commitment to the rights of women and girls” and “exemplary leadership”. “You have inspired our membership across the globe to pursue gender equality at all levels of decision-making and to advocate

On Friday, 15th March 2013, at the CSW 57, UN Member States adopted Agreed Conclusions, with reservations, on the priority theme of ‘The Elimination and Prevention of all forms of Violence against Women and Girls’. Last year no outcome document was agreed upon. This strengthened the resolve of the NGO

The first three months of 2013 have seen 13 new Soroptimist International clubs established,  in Bangladesh, Nigeria and the Philippines.  11 clubs have been chartered in the Philippines, taking the total number of clubs in the country to 84. "I’m truly excited to welcome so many new clubs to our wonderful organization", says

Dr Alice Odingo, one of Soroptimist International's UN Representatives in Nairobi, has been elected as one of four Global Co-ordinators of the Women's Major Group at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). "A woman’s voice and participation is the catalyst environmentalists need for sustainability", says Dr Odingo. "When I was elected as one

On March 11, HM Queen Elizabeth II signed the newly agreed Commonwealth Charter at a reception to mark Commonweath Day, attended by SI Programme Director Hilary Ratcliffe. It is the first time one document has been agreed by all 54 member states to enshrine a comprehensive range of principles and

Soroptimist International welcomes the Agreed Conclusions on violence against women and girls that were agreed at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57) late last night in New York. The agreement, hailed by Michelle Bachelet of UN Women as “historic”, was reached after several days of tough negotiation and

Speaking at the ECOSOC session at the Commission on the Status of Women at the UN in New York today, Soroptimist International expressed alarm at the increasing incidence of femicide - the killing of women and girls because they are female - and called for urgent, concerted action. "Femicide is growing

Soroptimist International and other women's organisations have expressed anger and disappointment at attempts to backtrack on existing international agreements on violence against women and girls at the 57th session of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57), currently taking place in New York.   "It is alarming that states are continuing to negotiate established