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Soroptimists in Mali "Go for Water!"
21/03/11
Soroptimists all over the world are working on water related projects. To celebrate SIGBI’s 75th anniversary year, 2009-2010 SIGBI President, Jackie Mosedale, set a challenge to all Clubs to raise £75 towards assisting a total of 75 WaterAid projects worldwide. The fund closed in December 2010, having exceeded all expectations. A staggering £36,129.53 was raised over the 12 months of…
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World Water Day - The Urban Challenge
21/03/11
Today is world water day! The international observance of World Water Day is an initiative that grew out of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro and focuses on a different water issue each year. The theme for 2011 is Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge. This is a hugely important…
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Commonwealth lecture urges the inclusion of women in climate change debate
21/03/11
At the Commonwealth Lecture in London, held last week, Mrs Sonia Gandhi called for women’s voices and concerns to be heard in the global climate change debate, to “help the world find a more sustainable and less consumerist path to development”. She argued that so far, most of the climate change debate has been 'gender blind'. “Among all the challenges…
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SI visits UN Reps in Vienna - Trafficking and IWD
18/03/11
President Elect Alice Wells and Programme Director Reilly Dempsey visit our UN Reps in Vienna for International Women’s Day! From the 9th to the 13th March, Alice and Reilly visited Roswitha Benesch, our UN European Liaison and Dora Vrdlovec, UN Rep in Vienna. Roswitha and Dora had set up quite the programme for Alice and Reilly, capitalising on every second…
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Launch of UN Grants Facility for Victims of Trafficking
17/03/11
Source: UNODC Press Release At any given time, an estimated 2.4 million people are trapped in modern-day slavery – human trafficking. Women, children and men across the globe find themselves being enslaved in forced labour and domestic servitude, sexually exploited or used as child soldiers. A global enterprise worth in the region of US$32 billion, human trafficking affects nearly ever…
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