DAYS OF WORK BUILDS YEARS OF SUCCESS FOR GIRLS - SIA’s New Program “Dream It Be It - Career Support for Girls” Hundreds of SIA Members provide days of curriculum to over 35,000 girls directed toward building years of career skills and confidence. A blog by Dawn Marie Lemonds, Immediate
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly declared this a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and amongst all nations and peoples. The UN theme for 2018 is The Right to Peace – The Universal
SIA Taiwan Region participated in the 2018 International Workshop on Strategies for Combating Human Trafficking and the 2018 Workshop of Leadership Eminence Acceleration Program for Women in Asia Pacific. Helen Yang of the SIA Taiwan Region reports. "Since 2007, Taiwan government has been hosting International Workshop on Strategies for Combating
The theme for the forthcoming International Day of Peace 2018 is “The Right to Peace - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70” António Guterres (UN Secretary-General) -
8 September was proclaimed International Literacy Day at the 14th session of UNESCO’s General Conference on 26 October 1966. Celebrated annually, it is an opportunity to celebrate improvements in world literacy rates and focus on the challenges that remain. Literacy plays a key role in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and
Soroptimist International of South West Pacific (SISWP) is to provide help to victims of violence, and those most vulnerable during natural disasters, with the construction of three shelters in Fiji, where women and children will receive counselling and accommodation during a programme of rehabilitation. During the SISWP Presidential Work Tour
A blog by SI UN Representative Bette Levy. "I attended two side events regarding poverty. While the approaches were very different the bottom line of both was unless we eradicate ‘relative poverty’ we would be leaving the most marginalized behind especially women and girls. The statistics speak for themselves. 80%
A Report from the 10th Water Business Forum, held at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, Singapore, 11 July 2018 by Dr. Theresa Devasahayam, Secretary, Soroptimist International of Singapore (SIS). Women and Water: Pressing for Gender Equality "There is no doubt that water is essential for life, as much as
Side Events that brought new open discussions to the UN by SI UN Representative Bette Levy "If you have been following the Agenda 2030 as long as I have (since Rio + 20 in 2012), it’s easy to be frustrated or disappointed about the lack of progress and to be
A blog by Janet Hall Schempf SI Anchorage on Cook Inlet, Alaska, USA "The United Nation’s High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) is meeting this month to discuss progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. Over the course of the two-week meeting, the topic of 'plastics' is considered from many angles,
