Image: Kadonowaki Elementary School, one of the many schools destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami (Credit: ChiefHira via Wikimedia Commons) On 11 March 2011, the eastern region of Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake, the fifth most powerful in the world since records began, which also triggered a tsunami. Over

  Our series of blogs about Projects of Excellence highlighted in this year's Global Impact Report continues! In this week's SoroptiVoice blog Susan Bartlett of SI Keighley (UK) introduces SAME Women, a project to promote friendship and understanding between women from different cultures in the town.  SI Keighley wanted a

  On 14 February 2013, people in 207 countries rose and danced to demand an end to violence against women and girls as part of the One Billion Rising movement. Many Soroptimist International clubs - including those in Belgium, Canada, India, Turkey, UK and USA - took part in this

On Monday, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) will meet for its 57th Session in Geneva, Switzerland.  The Committee is the monitoring body for the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, often described as an international bill of rights for women, which defines discrimination

  Continuing with our celebration of  Projects of Excellence from the Global Impact Report, in this week's Soroptivoice blog, Arlene Vilas of SI of Ceres (USA) writes about her club's S.E.W. project (Soroptimist Encouraging Women).  Originally aimed at increasing the skills and confidence of women recovering from addiction, the scheme

Image: Opening of the clothing showroom with the town's mayor, who has since become a club member! In the third of our series focussing on Soroptimist Projects of Excellence, Dorothy Bowker from SI Leigh & District (UK) writes about the club's "Just The Job" project, which provides advice, support and interview

In the second in our series of blog posts focussing on Projects of Excellence identified in the SI Global Impact Report 2012-13,  Nisha Ghosh, Founder President and current Programme Action Chair of SI Pune Metro East (India) writes about "Girls Moving Forward", which used the skills of Soroptimists to provide

Our Global Impact Report 2012-13 identified 39 Soroptimist "Projects of Excellence" around the world, as a source of education and inspiration.  In the coming weeks, we will be featuring many of these projects on the SoroptiVoice blog. This week, Irene Hockin, a Past-President of SI Barnstaple and District (UK), writes

  Yvonne Simpson, a member of SI Westland (New Zealand) and Past-President of SI South West Pacific, took up the role of Soroptimist International President-Elect on 1 January 2014. Yvonne's professional background is in high-school and community education and in this week's SoroptiVoice blog, she shares her passion for education

This SoroptiBlog comes from Anna McCormick, Programme Manager at SIHQ, who recently attended a conference on Modern Day Slavery. Here she describes one of the sessions she attended, and talks about how education and awareness are vital in the prevention of VAWG. On December 3rd – 4th I attended the