The use of the whole spectrum of drugs has become a major source of threat to the health of women and girls. In 2018, an estimated 269 million people worldwide, including women or girls, continued to use drugs including opioids. The restrictions on movement, gatherings and social distancing which were
27 – 30 JULY 2020 Plans for the annual Soroptimist International (SI) in person board meeting and Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held in Seattle may have been abandoned, but the SI Board and Federation Presidents embraced the digital alternative holding a series of highly successful meetings over four
This month's edition focuses on the work of SI's United Nations representatives in Nairobi. The United Nations Office in Nairobi is the headquarters for the UN in Africa and the home of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). UNEP is responsible for coordinating the UN’s environmental activities and supports the
"Without migration, societies worldwide would never have achieved their current level of development... travel and communications have become faster and easier, people are moving from country to country in even greater numbers....Yet the structural factors driving migration, demographic imbalances, economic inequalities, conflict, disasters and the impacts of climate change, are
It is estimated that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone
1 in 3 women throughout the world (35%) will experience physical and/or sexual violence by
Older women account for 54% of the global population aged 60 years and above, and
Recent figures from the International Office of Migration (IOM) estimate there to be 271.6 million
Worldwide, more than 650 million women alive today were married as children. Child marriage, or
This edition follows the activities of SI's United Nations Representatives in Vienna. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), the UN Industrial Development Office (UNIDO) and the UN Convention on Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) are all based in Vienna.
