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'Keeping the windows open' by Hafdis Karlsdottir

A report from CSW60 by Hafdis Karlsdottir “Today I attended a side event that filled my Icelandic heart with pride. The event was called ‘Keep the Window Open’. It was organised by the Permanent Mission of Iceland to the UN, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police and Women‘s NGOs

News: Nepal hosts its first Girl Summit to end Child, Early and Forced Marriage

Image: Rt. Hon President Mrs. Bidhya Devi Bhandari shaking hands with Prince Harry at the Inaugural Session of the Nepal Girl Summit. DPM Mr. CP Mainali looks on. Photo by Prakash Mathema NEWS: KATHMANDU, 23 March 2016 – On Wednesday March 23rd Nepal hosted its first ever Girl Summit

Soroptimist International Conference on the Future Federation of Africa

Ann Garvie, Soroptimist International Immediate Past President 2013-2015, brings news of the Conference on the Future Federation of Africa, held in Madagascar on 17- 19 March 2016, the second all African meeting, following the event held two years ago in Pretoria, South Africa. Image: SIE Immediate Past President

CSW60 – The Big Issues

Soroptimists and 'HOME' helping migrant workers in Singapore

Soroptimists work with the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME) to help migrant workers in Singapore "Singapore, as in many countries in Asia and the Middle-East, is heavily reliant on a foreign labour force economic growth. Out of the 1.3 million migrant workers in Singapore as of 2014, the bulk

Women at the Frontline of Climate Change, But not at the Paris Climate Conference

The Paris Climate Conference (officially known as COP21) was the first time in over twenty years of UN negotiations where the aim was to achieve a legal and universal agreement on climate change. This landmark conference came after years of various climate change negotiations that produced the Kyoto Protocol and

Day Sixteen The President's Appeal

Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December, it commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1950, the Assembly passed resolution 423 (V), inviting all States and interested organizations to observe 10 December of

Day Fifteen FGM #WakeTheLion

Sonyanga Ole Ngais is Captain of the Maasai Cricket Warriors, coach of the Maasai Cricket Ladies team, and one of the stars of the highly acclaimed ‘Warriors’, a powerful documentary directed by Barney Douglas. Through the vehicle of cricket, these young Maasai men have found a voice - and are

FGM – A blog by UN Rep Dora Vrdlovec

"FGM is recognized internationally as a violation of the human rights of girls and women. It reflects deep-rooted inequality between the sexes, and constitutes an extreme form of discrimination against women. The practice violates a person's rights to health, security and physical integrity, the right to be free from torture

Day Eleven Targeting of Women in Conflict

“Sexual violence in conflict needs to be treated as the war crime that it is; it can no longer be treated as an unfortunate collateral damage of war.” – UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms Zainab Hawa Bangura Even though sexual violence in conflict has been

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