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International Water Forum at the UN: Building a Global Awareness and Education Campaign

By 2025 two-thirds of the world population could be living under water stress, creating conditions where water becomes an impediment to socio-economic development. Over 800 million people around the world lack access to a safe water source. 2.5 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation. Poor or no access to

WAGGGS: We Can Save Our Planet Campaign

WAGGGS is on the road to Rio+20 via the Climate Change Conference COP17 in Durban. To ensure the voices of girls and young women are heard in the negotiations on climate change and sustainable development, WAGGGS have launched the ‘we can save our planet’ campaign'. The campaign pulls together community

Think Equal: Soroptimist International at the World Bank!

This week’s SoroptiVoice is from Heather Brotsos, a member in Washington DC and the Soroptimist International representative at the 2011 World Bank Civil Society Policy Forum. Heather reports back from the largest ever Civil Society Policy Forum where over 600 CSO representatives met with World Bank and International Monetary Fund

SI Attends World Bank Civil Society Forums in Washington D.C

Last week, Heather Brotsos from SIA represented SI at a series of World Bank and International Monetary Fund Civil Society Forms in Washington D.C. Over 600 Civil Society Organisations participated in a four day programme of discussions to promote dialogue between civil society representatives and these two international organisation. Topics

We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands!

Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the fourth in a series of special blog reports about the 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Here, International President Alice Wells, shares her experiences. Sustainable development is about “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet

DPI/NGO Blog Special: From "Who?" to "Wow!"

Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the third of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next few days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Here, Anusha Santhirasthipam, SI's Assistant Programme Director, shares her experiences at the UN Environment Programme consultations which took place in

SI Attends UN Environment Programme Consultations in Germany

Dr Alice Odingo, SI Representative to the UN Environment Programme, recently attended two UNEP consultations in Bonn, Germany, along with SI International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam. On September 1st, our representatives attended the UNEP Consultation for Rio+20: "Engaging with Major Groups and Stakeholders on Rio+20: the Role of Civil

DPI/NGO Conference: On the Road to Rio+20

The third day of DPI/NGO opened with a round table on “Sustainable Development Governance: Issues from Local to Global”. The focus was on the role of citizen participation and much of the discussion spoke directly to the experience of civil society organisations and NGOs. Thierno Kane from the Open Society

DPI/NGO Conference: "Green is the New Brown"

The second day of DPI NGO opened with a roundtable on Green Economy and Poverty Eradication. In particular, the roundtable focussed on the green economy through the lens of climate change, and what this means for poverty eradication and economic growth in both the global north and the global south.

New SI Programme Goals and Objectives Agreed!

Soroptimist International is delighted to announce that the new programme goals and objectives for the 2011-2015 quadrennium have been publish! At the Saturday session of the SI Board Meeting, 9th July, we welcomed Programme Voting Delegates (PVDs) from all over the world to discuss and develop the new programme goals

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