Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organisations (DPI/NGO)
New York
The DPI/NGO Section acts as its liaison between the United Nations and NGOs and other civil society organizations. It oversees partnerships with associated NGOs and provides a wide range of information services to them. These include weekly NGO briefings, communication workshops, an annual NGO conference and an annual orientation programme for newly associated NGOs.
Soroptimist International is associated with DPI and takes an active role in the annual conference. SI has run workshops and participated as panellists at the conference for many years. The 2011conference took place in Bonn, Germany, from September 3rd - 5th. Click here to visit the website, and visit the links below to read all the news from the main sessions.
If you are interested in reading any reports from before 2009, please email SIHQ: hq@soroptimistinternational.org.
Resources
- News Story: DPI/NGO Briefing: The Feminisation of Ageing, October 2011
- 64th DPI/NGO SI Report and Analysis, September 2011
- News Story: Final Declaration from the 64th DPI/NGO Conference
- News Story: 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference Day 1
- News Story: 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference Day 2
- News Story: 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference Day 3
- DPI/NGO Briefing After Cancun: Where Do We Stand on Climate Change? A Follow-Up to Cancun Conference, January 20th 2011
- "Women and Girl Power – Uniting to build healthy societies, particularly through ending and preventing violence against women and girls", Soroptimist International and World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts interactive panel, 2010
- 63rd Annual DPI NGO summary report, 2010
- "For Peace and Development: Disarm now!" Soroptimists promote peaceful conflict resolution, inter-cultural and inter-racial tolerance and condemn genocide and terrorism, 2009
- 62nd Annual DPI NGO summary report, 2009
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