From Agreed Conclusions to Zero draft, via femicide, militarism, Post-2015 agenda and more: in this post from CSW57, former SI Programme Director and President of SI Newport Harbor Area (USA) Dawn Marie Lemonds explains some of the key terms used during the Commission, which focusses on violence against women and girls.  I have

SI Programme Director Hilary Ratcliffe reports on day 4 of CSW57 (7 March), including a second successful Soroptimist event, relationship education and continuing concerns about the outcomes document - your help is still needed! Our second side event: From girl child to mature woman: A life course approach to gender empowerment and a

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

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 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

The recent horrific attack on two young women in Delhi has caused outrage across India and the world,  highlighting once again the need to change social attitudes to women and gender-violence. Over the next two weeks, we will be hearing from some members of the seventeen Soroptimist clubs in India,

This special SoroptiVoice Blog for December 10 comes from Meredith Tutumang of SI Lae in Papua New Guinea, one of the SI clubs involved in the Birthing in the Pacific project. Meredith Tutumang is the Team Leader for the Village Birth Attendant Programme under SI Lae. In August 2012, the first community