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Digital Gender Violence: Towards Transformative Policies and Partnerships in the Beijing+30 Framework – Panel One

Occupy Cyberspace: The Urgent Need for International Digital Protections Blog by Elizabeth Peterson, 2024–2026 North Atlantic Region Governor from Soroptimist International of the Americas, Connecticut Shoreline Club This CSW69 side event provided a powerful discussion on the urgent need to address technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF-GBV). With a distinguished panel

Changing face of violence against women

Blog by Margaret Daly, SI Communications Manager The CSW69 event, "The Changing Face of Violence," focused on online violence against women and girls. In 2025, 30 years after the 4th World Conference on Women, achieving gender equality is more urgent than ever due to the global polycrisis and rising opposition

Unveiling the Shadows in the Trafficking of Women and Girls

Written by Linda Witong, SI Advocacy Advisor 2024-2025 The annual World Day Against Trafficking in Persons takes place on 30 July. In this blog and accompanying podcast episode Soroptimist International marks this day by looking at the trafficking women and girls. Different types of human trafficking Women and girls are

Gender Inequality in the Digital Sector

Blog by Donatella Benjamin, SI United Nations Representative in Geneva. The Generation Equality Forum was held in Paris from June 30 to July 2, 2021. Several roundtables took place, including one on the use of technology and the advancement of innovations in this field to promote equality between women and

Solidarity of NGOs Facing the Pandemic: Communication and Culture

SI United Nations (UN) Representative, Evelyne Para, brings us the third instalment in her series of blogs about how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This blog focuses on Communication, Information, and Culture. "To face the consequences of the global COVID-19 crisis, the mobilisation of local associations

Digital technology and Social Change

SI UN Representative, Maria Fornella-Oehninger, brings us the next in a series of blogs relating to the Beijing Platform for Action as she discusses the emerging theme of 'gender equality and the implications of the digital revolution'. "There is no aspect of social, economic, or political development that has escaped

World Summit for the Information Society, Session 12 – Gender Mainstreaming

A blog by Stacy Ciulik, UN Representative Geneva "The World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) 2019, Geneva, had a jam-packed agenda of fascinating topics relating to digitalisation and the information society. High-Level Policy Session 12 on gender mainstreaming touched upon many topics I have personally encountered as a female

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