SI UN Representative Dora Vrdlovec reports back from an event in Vienna to raise awareness about Millennium Development Goal 5: 2015 is not far away, but what does seem very  far away are some of the Millennium Development Goals. To raise awareness and galvanise action on MDG 5 (improve maternal

Press Release: Centre for Reproductive Rights Last year, the Center for Reproductive Rights won a groundbreaking victory in our eight-year battle on behalf of Alyne da Silva Pimentel, an impoverished Afro-brazilian woman who died when doctors willfully failed to provide her with the maternal healthcare to which she was legally

Soroptimist International UNESCO Representative, Rina Dupriet, attended the Education For All working group: Early Childhood Care and Education. She reports back. The first world conference on Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) organised by UNESCO (Moscow 2010) in cooperation with the Russian Federation, gave a fresh impetus to accelerating efforts to

Last week, SI President Alice Wells returned from a trip to Papua New Guinea, the location of the current December 10th Appeal: Birthing in the Pacific. She reports back from her visit.  Here we are, in 2012, with all the wonders of modern medicine and yet there are still more

The SI UN Vienna Representatives report back from the UN Crime Commission The Forgotten Children   Many of the side events which took place during the recent session of the Crime Commission were on the children of incarcerated parents. These side events, together with the many papers that were presented,

Soroptimist International is an active member of the Women's Major Stakeholder Group for the forthcoming UN Conference on Sustainable Development - Rio+20. The below statement was given at the ECOSOC on May 3rd. Women’s Major Group Statement United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 3 May 2012 Vice President of

SI UNESCO Representative Dominique Mertz reports back from the Global Water Futures Forum. By 2025, an estimated 60 percent of the world’s population will live in “water-stressed” conditions. Securing access to safe drinking water (MDG 7) for all and managing this limited resource is therefore a high priority on the

Programme Director Reilly Dempsey and President Elect Ann Garvie attended the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights & Development, held in Istanbul.  AWID is the Association For Women’s Rights in Development, and Soroptimist International joined the association in 2011.  AWID is an international, multi-generational, feminist, creative, future-orientated membership organisation

As Soroptimist International prepares to take part in a side event on migrant women and their children in prisons at the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, we issue our message to global leaders on this critical topic. "Help us and ask us questions"  This was the plea from

This week, SI's UN Representatives in Vienna are attending the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. They report back on the opening session: The 21st Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, chaired by Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand opened today in front of about