A special blog from the 20th Congress of Soroptimist International of Europe, 12-14 July 2013, by SI International Programme Director Hilary Ratcliffe. What an amazing experience being with Soroptimists from all over the world at the Congress in Berlin! It all started so well with a very special evening at

This week's SoroptiVoice blog on the role of women in building a more peaceful world comes from Anusha Santhirasthipam, International Assistant Programme Director for Soroptimist International.   Image: Malaysian UN Peacekeepers in Lebanon (Credit: UN Photo/Pasqual Gorriz) There can be no real peace in this world until every woman and

Dora Vrdlovec is Soroptimist International's Lead Representative to the United Nations in Vienna. In this week's SoroptiVoice blog, she writes about celebrating 50 years of women in space, marking the contribution of pioneering women and looking forward to greater female participation in the future. Fifty years ago on 16 June 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova  made her historic

On 15 June, 14 female students were murdered and more critically injured when their bus was blown up by a suicide bomber in western Pakistan. The hospital in which the survivors were treated was then attacked. This atrocity came just a day after an attack on the last resting place

In this week's blog, Chinwe Ezenwa-Mbah writes about the process of setting up a Soroptimist International African Federation to represent clubs on the continent. Chinwe has been a member of SI Surulere, Nigeria, since its charter in 1992. She is a Director without Portfolio of the SIGBI Federation and currently chairs the Taskforce on the Proposed SI Africa Federation. Originally

In last week's blog, Anusha Santhirasthipam, Soroptimist International Assistant Programme Director looked at how individual decisions on food waste can make a difference. This week, she writes about how we can promote sustainable development on a global level, by contributing to the debate on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Post-2015 Development Agenda.  A year ago, the Rio+20 UN Conference on

  Anusha Santhirasthipam, Soroptimist International Assistant Programme Director, writes about the need to reduce food waste, the theme for this year's World Environment Day. Think. Eat. Save - an anti-food waste and food loss campaign is a wake-up call for all of us reduce our foodprint. It is the theme

As World Environment Day (5 June) approaches, we'll be focussing on environmental issues and women's role in sustainable development. In this week's blog, Nisha Ghosh of SI Pune Metro East (India) writes about an inspiring example of eco-feminism in Rajasthan. These last six months and more have brought the limelight onto to the darker