Funds from the SI President’s Appeal 2015-2017 will facilitate six months of tuition, textbooks and school uniform for Rupa to ensure that she can complete her education, graduate from high school and realise her dream to study law. The project will be on-going until Rupa is finished her education and becomes independent.
"If there is one thing you can count on Soroptimists for… they will go the extra mile. On 17 June, A Road Map to Gender Equality Now: Symposium for Action, an open event in Vancouver was held, with Soroptimists making up almost a third of attendees.
The Soroptimist International President’s Appeal 2015-2017 is supporting CITC, and the ‘Inspire Programme’, which seeks to improve the educational experience for girls, increase attendance and improve the health of girls allowing them to complete their education.
At the 26th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 2017, UN Vienna May 25, 2017, SIE Immediate Past President, Ulla Madsen was panellist at the side event, ‘The Lost Children - Safeguarding unaccompanied migrant minors from going missing’.
At the UN Environment in Nairobi, 2017 is an important year for the third UN Environment Assembly (UNEA 3) where decisions are made on different issues on Environment that continue to shape our future.
A blog by Gina Vucci, SI Marin. In 2014, Soroptimist International Marin hosted a Human Trafficking Awareness event and created a film, 'What is Human Trafficking? Why Should We Care?' with Canadian investigative journalist, Julian Sher, subsequently shown at the Commission on the Status of Women in 2015.
"In 2011, the General Assembly of the United Nations designated 15 June as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD). The fact that we need a special day to call attention to the existence of harmful practices against older persons is in itself a shameful indictment on society".
A blog by Barbara Rochman SI UN Rep, New York. The New York Declaration is a political document setting forth the states' commitments to launch a process of intergovernmental negotiations leading to the adoption of two global compacts, one for refugees and the other, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
Educate to Lead: Nepal is funding a team of seven trainers who travel throughout the country to support and educate vulnerable girls and women through Expressive Arts exercises.
In the second part of our series 'A Closer Look at Leadership', we hear from SI Director of Advocacy 2015-2017, Pat Black, SI Assistant Director of Advocacy Sharon Fisher, and from Bette Levy, Marie-D'Amato-Rizzi and Frances Zainoeddin, SI UN Representatives in New York
The AHF Women and Girl’s Education Project (WGEP) in the remote disadvantaged region of the Lower SoluKhumbu region of Nepal is supported by the Soroptimist International President’s Appeal and during the first year, the project has reached and exceeded its original aims.
