Image: SI Bonaberi-Douala’s adult literacy centre, Cameroon, PFR 34067 "Literacy not only changes lives, it saves them". That’s the simple and powerful truth at the heart of UNESCO’s rallying call for  greater investment and a redoubling of efforts to bring literacy to all. Literacy is an absolute necessity for achieving

Image: USA, SI Anti-Trafficking march in Camino Real, SI Conejo (PFR: 34025). 30 July 2014 is  the UN’s first World Day against Trafficking in Persons. Soroptimist International supports the call for greater global awareness and reports on some of the many effective Soroptimist actions across the world to end this

Programme Director Reilly Dempsey and President Elect Ann Garvie attended the 12th AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights & Development, held in Istanbul.  AWID is the Association For Women’s Rights in Development, and Soroptimist International joined the association in 2011.  AWID is an international, multi-generational, feminist, creative, future-orientated membership organisation

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

The NGO Committee on Mental Health and the NGO Health Committee, of which SI is a member, collaborated to present a symposium on the global challenges of chronic disease on September 8, 2011. The symposium was timed to precede the UN High-Level Meeting on "Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control" entitled: 

Every three years, UN Women (previously UNIFEM) produces a report looking at a particular aspect of gender equality and women’s rights.  This year, the report looks at legal systems through the eyes women, exploring ways in which women still experience discrimination, rights violations, and barriers in access, but also ways