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Domestic Violence and Girls – from grass-roots action to international advocacy

Bette Levy is a member of Soroptimist International of Manhattan and one of SI’s Representatives to the United Nations in New York. In this week’s blog, she talks about her work on domestic violence with the Working Group on Girls, and how lessons from Soroptimist projects around the world will

International Women's Day – Enough is Enough, End Violence Against Women!

"We need to wake up to the danger that millions of women are facing each day. What better way to let our voice be heard than by standing on a bridge on 8th March 2013, and speaking out against Violence. Let's do it. We owe it to us!". Talat Pasha,

Flavia Agnes – fighting for women's rights through the law in India

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

Slideshow – SI clubs in action!

Life-coaching in Iceland, school stationery in Madagascar, condoms in Kenya and books in Trinidad and Tobago; here are pictures of just a few of the recently-reported actions that Soroptimists have taken around the world to educate, empower and enable women and girls. You can read more about the projects below.

Soroptimists condemn gang-rape in Delhi and take action to change attitudes

Soroptimists in India have been taking part in the wave of protests following the horrific gang-rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi in December. On 5 January, SI of Bangalore organised a candlelight march in memory of the 23 year-old physiotherapy student, who died of her injuries following the

Around the world in six months…celebrating new clubs and big birthdays as SIGBI President!

In the last months of her term as President of the SIGBI Federation, Maureen Maguire travelled extensively to charter new clubs and see the work that members are doing around the world. Reproduced with kind permission from SIGBI's newsletter, Soroptimist News December 2012. In July, I flew to Nepal to charter

90000 Voices for Women's Rights: Human Rights Day 2012

Women are still deprived of their human rights in so many places: denied an education, safe childbirth, a life free of violence . SI continues to fight for human rights for all at grassroots, national and international level – standing up for Malala and girls’ education, improving healthcare for women

Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for Esther Madudu.

As we know the importance of midwives and their ability to work effectively and safely is paramount to the lives of mothers and their babies all over the world. The current Soroptimist International Birthing in the Pacific Programme in Papua New Guinea is a prime example of this. In Africa,

The President's Appeal Project – Birthing in the Pacific

With its first year almost at an end we wanted to provide you with an update on our December 10th Appeal, Birthing in the Pacific (BIP). This project was set up in order to increase access to both skilled birth attendants and functioning health care services in Papua New Guinea

Visit to All China Women's Federation – Beijing 2012

This weeks SoroptiVoice blog comes from Leigh Ellwood-Brown, SI Organisational Development Committee Chair. Leigh talks about a recent trip to Beijing, a trip which was historically relevant and shows the great relationships that SI build with other women's organisations around the world. To keep our contact and connection with the All China Women’s Federation,

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