UN Secretary-General António Guterres candidly speaks of gender inequality as "a shadow pandemic” during the Virtual Townhall Meeting with Women's Civil Society.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic had revolutionised the way we communicated and in many ways offered us a variety of tools to socialise, work or attend school online. Social media, video-conferencing apps, voice calls and text chats had also increased the amount of online harassment, intimidation and abuse which was directed at women.
Blog by Pat Black, SI Special Advisor to Advocacy.
The Committee of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) ...
Global Executive Director, Deborah Thomas is pleased to announce that Soroptimist International is inviting applications for the volunteer role, Soroptimist International Director of Advocacy for the 2022– 23 biennium.
This year because CSW is virtual, everyone who wanted to attend the Opening Session were able to do so. It probably didn’t feel quite as grand as it would have done to be there in person but I appreciated being able to listen to some giants of the UN system.
While we may be living through a gender crisis at this time, we are being presented with the opportunity for gender equality advocates from every sector of society – governments, civil society, private sector, entrepreneurs, trade unions, artists, academia and social influencers – to drive urgent action and accountability in order to build back better, achieve the goal of gender equality and meet the goals of the 2030 Agenda.
The excitement is mounting as we welcome the start of the 65th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women ...
In the last of the Youth Preparation series, NGO CSW/NY hosted an impactful webinar on male allyship.
SI Advocacy Advisor, Linda Witong, blogs from the 14th Session of the United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ).
On International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021, we ask, “Are women making any progress in participation in leadership and decision-making?”
Evelyne Para, SI UN Representative at UNESCO, looks at how can civil society support populations exposed to the COVID-19 pandemic through strengthened cooperation between NGOs and UNESCO.
Written by Past International President Patsy Daniels and Dawn Marie Lemonds.
In 1995, 189 Member States of the ...
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