Hilary Ratcliffe, SI Programme Director, writes a second update from CSW57 in New York. The SI delegation met this morning (Tuesday) and shared experiences from the first day of CSW. We managed meetings with key government ministers from theUK, Indonesia, Australia, Estonia and Italy. The delegates have attended the opening

Dawn-Marie Lemonds, past Soroptimist International Programme Director and President of SI Newport Harbor Area (USA), reports on the CSW orientation session.  For more updates and photos from CSW57, visit www.soroptimistinternational.org/CSW57. First-timers and long-timers like me crammed into the excellent orientation session presented by the CSW committee that is always provided to

The SI delegation at the Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) in New York will be posting regularly to the SoroptiVoice blog from 4-15 March. Here is the first report, from Hilary Ratcliffe, SI Programme Director. See the latest photos and updates from CSW at www.soroptimistinternational.org/CSW57. New York New

The Commission on the Status of Women opens next week in New York, with violence against women as its primary theme. But will this year's CSW result in firm outcomes or be just another talking shop? Anusha Santhirasthipam, Soroptimist International Assistant Programme Director, sets out ten powerful reason why Governments must achieve

The 54th session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is currently taking place in Geneva, with several of SI's Representatives to the UN taking part in meetings and events.  In this week's SoroptiVoice blog, Herta Kaschitz, who for 27 years worked as a lawyer for the UN

This week's blog by Anna McCormick, Programme Manager at Soroptimist International, examines the conflict that can arise between traditional cultural practices and law, particularly with regard to women and gender-violence. The recent Trust Women Conference in London was organised to recognize the challenges faced by women today and advance innovative solutions to

In the run-up to CSW57 and International Women's Day on March 8, we will continue to focus on the issue of violence against women and girls. In this post, Lori Blair, Senior Director of Program Services at Soroptimist International of the Americas writes about the Soroptimist International of the Americas campaign to tackle domestic

In this week's SoroptiVoice blog, Herta Kaschitz, Governor of the Soroptimist International Austrian Union, writes about a discussion of the role of service clubs held at the Austrian Parliament. Herta has been a Soroptimist for 23 years, for 13 years in New York City (USA) and now at SI Wien-Belvere (Austria). As a lawyer, she worked  for

Bette Levy is a member of Soroptimist International of Manhattan and one of SI’s Representatives to the United Nations in New York.  In this week’s blog, she talks about her work on domestic violence with the Working Group on Girls, and how lessons from Soroptimist projects around the world will

 In this week's blog, Nisha Ghosh, Project Action Chair and Past President of SI Pune Metro East (India) writes about the club's work on violence against women and introduces Flavia Agnes, a pioneering women's rights lawyer and activist, who has worked for over twenty five years on issues of gender and law reforms in