Dr. Mussaret Anwar Sheikh, Chairperson Education, Associate Professor, Fatima Jinnah Women University and Federation Executive Councilor (FEC) Pakistan for Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (SIGBI) has won an award  in the Asia Best Business School Awards held at Suntec, Singapore. She is the first woman of Pakistan

By 2025 two-thirds of the world population could be living under water stress, creating conditions where water becomes an impediment to socio-economic development. Over 800 million people around the world lack access to a safe water source. 2.5 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation. Poor or no access to

Dr Talat Pasha, Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland Assistant Programme Director for Goodwill and and Understanding, reports from Karachi. With many children still recovering from last year's devastating floods, up to 2.5 million children in Sindh have now been affected by the unusually heavy monsoon rains and floods

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 has been awarded jointly to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work". Nobel Committee chairman, Thorbjorn Jagland, said: “We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace

WAGGGS is on the road to Rio+20 via the Climate Change Conference COP17 in Durban. To ensure the voices of girls and young women are heard in the negotiations on climate change and sustainable development, WAGGGS have launched the ‘we can save our planet’ campaign'. The campaign pulls together community

Today is Soroptimist International’s Club Friendship Day, celebrating the day that the very first Soroptimist Club was established in Oakland, California in 1921. Together, across continents and cultures, Soroptimists transform the lives of women and girls in need through local and international projects, friendship links with other clubs, and partnerships

Last week, Heather Brotsos from SIA represented SI at a series of World Bank and International Monetary Fund Civil Society Forms in Washington D.C. Over 600 Civil Society Organisations participated in a four day programme of discussions to promote dialogue between civil society representatives and these two international organisation. Topics

Last week, SI UN Representatives Lois Beilin and Yoko Komori Olson attended a meeting on "Empowering Women and Girls: Innovative Collaborations to Combat Trafficking" at the United Nations in New York. The main point made during this meeting was that reduction in trafficking is in direct relationship to the education

September 21st is International Peace Day. From 2002 to 2011, Soroptimist International has used this day to raise awareness, support peace projects, celebrate peace and goodwill, and connect with others around the world. Here we look back on actions taken since 2002 and look forward to what Soroptimists can already

World Assembly of Youth: International Peace Day Statement 2011 A nation without vision perishes, so is a nation without vision for peace building. Peace is not something we should be wishing for without hard work put in to achieve, but a virtue we all work towards to accomplish. Peace should