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Population and Development: Empowering Women Through Choice
25/04/12
SI UN Representative Lois Beilin reports back from the Commission on Population and Development, taking place in New York this week. The Commission on Population and Development meeting at the United Nations in New York, April 23 – 27 has refocused attention on the International Conference for Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, Egypt in 1994. The Plan for…
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Women's Organisations say No to Safeguarding "Traditional Values" at the Expense of Human Rights
11/04/12
Last month the UN Commission on the Status of Women failed to adopt agreed conclusions at its 56th session on the basis of safeguarding "traditional values" at the expense of human rights and fundamental freedoms of women. Together with our partner women's rights organisations through the UN NGO system, Soroptimist International says NO to any re-opening of negotiations on the…
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A Milestone towards A Future SI African Federation
30/03/12
SIE President Kathy Kaaf reports back from the Conference on the Proposed SI African Federation which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, 22nd – 24th March 2012. "Kenya Strikes Oil“ was the headline of the “Daily Nation” on Tuesday 27th March when SIE President-Elect Ulla Madsen, SIE Vice President Christine Peer and I left Nairobi after the successful Conference on the…
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Report from the 55th Commission on Narcotic Drugs
30/03/12
SI UN Vienna Representatives, Roswitha Benesch and Martina Gredler, report back from the 55th Commission on Narcatic Drugs 12-16th March, 2012. In his opening speech at the 55th UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), called for a real balance within drug policies, making health, integration and rehabilitation the aim…
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Women's Empowerment and the Sustainable Development Goals
30/03/12
International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam, reports back from the third Rio+20 intersessional meeting which took place in New York last week. From 19-27 March 2012, the SI UN Reps in New York and International Assistant Programme Director, Anusha Santhirasthipam, attended the first round of 'informal-informal' negotiations on the zero draft of the Rio+20 outcome document, followed by the Third…
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