This was the banner created by SI Arusha, and proudly displayed high above the city streets on their Charter date of 20th March 2012. Four years ago the seed of soroptimism was planted by Mrs Margaret Ndzelen, a SI member from Bamenda, Cameroon. While visiting with her daughter who

Press Release: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights In an open letter to world Governments, a group of 22 UN independent human rights experts called on States to incorporate universally agreed international human rights norms and standards with strong accountability mechanisms into the UN Rio+20 sustainable development conference’s

SI UN Representative Lois Beilin reports back from the Commission on Population and Development, taking place in New York this week. The Commission on Population and Development meeting at the United Nations in New York, April 23 – 27 has refocused attention on the International Conference for Population and Development

Last month the UN Commission on the Status of Women failed to adopt agreed conclusions at its 56th session on the basis of safeguarding "traditional values" at the expense of human rights and fundamental freedoms of women. Together with our partner women's rights organisations through the UN NGO system, Soroptimist

SIE President Kathy Kaaf reports back from the Conference on the Proposed SI African Federation which took place in  Nairobi, Kenya, 22nd – 24th March 2012. "Kenya Strikes Oil“ was the headline of the “Daily Nation” on Tuesday 27th March when SIE President-Elect Ulla Madsen, SIE Vice President Christine Peer

SI UN Vienna Representatives, Roswitha Benesch and Martina Gredler, report back from the 55th Commission on Narcatic Drugs 12-16th March, 2012. In his opening speech at the 55th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), called for a real balance

International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam, reports back from the third Rio+20 intersessional meeting which took place in New York last week. From 19-27 March 2012, the SI UN Reps in New York and International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam, attended the first round of 'informal-informal' negotiations on the zero

International Assistant Programme Director Anusha Santhirasthipam reports back from a week of meetings at the UN centre in New York, focussing on Rio+20 preparations and the policy asks of the Women's Major Stakeholder Group. “83 days to The Future We Want” says the countdown banner at the top of the official

Soroptimist International is delighted to learn that past International Assistant Programme Director, Margaret Cook, has been selected to carry the Olympic torch as it passes through Yorkshire.  Margaret was nominated by her Soroptimist Club members to take part in the torch relay in Ilkley on June 24. She will be

Soroptimist International has received the 20th annual progress report for the Soroptimist International AIDS Mediation project. The report, covering 2011,shares details of the projects and initiatives first funded by Soroptimist International in 1995-1999. This quadrennial project, conducted in Chiang Rai province, Thailand, was designed to address the high rate of