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Women’s Health and Gender Inequalities: Lessons and emerging priorities 25 years after the Beijing Platform for Action

Report by Siren Fadler, SI UN Representative CSW 65 Side Event by United Nations University International Institute for Global Health The 25 years since the visionary Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for Women have seen dramatic changes globally. While there has been important progress on some fronts, new challenges

General Assembly: High-level Meeting on Water 18 March, 2021

Report by Linda Witong, SI Advisor to Advocacy In a somber but riveting session, our audience learned about how challenging our future is in relation to the water crisis. H.E Mr. Volkan Bozkir, the President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, began by relating how we

CSW Civil Society Briefing: Making Soroptimist Voices Heard

by Francesca Williams, Global Policy Coordinator “CSW is the best representative of how much women and young people believe in the United Nations (UN). I emphasise the importance of this year’s theme during COVID, given that women have demonstrated such leadership – but much of the leadership is informal, and

CSW65 Side Event: Digital Gender Gaps and Opportunities

Blog by Siren Fadler and Maria Fornella-Oehninger, SI UN Representatives, New York. Siren and Maria report on the CSW65 Side Event, "Digital Gender Gaps and Opportunities – Fostering equal participation and ending violence against women in a connected age", organised by Germany and the Council of Europe. Accelerated by COVID-19

The Road to Equality: Preparing Women and Girls to Lead – CSW Parallel Event

Blog by SI Advocacy Coordinator, Hannah Agius. “It was a pleasure to join Soroptimist International (SI) President Sharon and the SI Advocacy Team as they hosted the Soroptimist International CSW65 Parallel Event, ‘The Road to Equality: Preparing Women and Girls to Lead’. Representatives from the five Federations demonstrated how this

CSW65 Parallel Event – Fix the System: Get Her Elected

Blog by Dawn Marie Lemonds, SI Newport Harbor Area. A jam-packed interactive session featured our own Immediate Past President Mariet Verhoef-Cohen as one of the keynote speakers along with other leaders from Women for Water Partnership, and elected leaders - Rachel Dodge former Attorney General in Brazil, Bonita Zarrillo from

CSW65 Official Sessions for 16 March: Follow up to the Beijing Platform for Action

Blog by Pat Black, SI Special Advisor to Advocacy. The Committee of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) continues to meet in formal session at the United Nations and online. During the last session on 16 March, the members have been considering Agenda Item 3: Follow-up to the

CSW65 side event – Australia’s eSafety model for addressing gendered-based violence online

Blog by Linda Witong, SI Special Advisor to Advocacy. Being aware of the fact that international research had determined that women and girls were subjected to very high levels of online abuse simply because they were women, I joined this seminar to learn more about the perils of being a

Virtual Townhall CSW65 Meeting with UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

Blog by Francesca Fletcher Williams, SI Global Policy Coordinator 16 March 2021 saw civil society representatives virtually meet with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres to share their opinions and to ask him questions about gender equality and the impacts of COVID-19. The UN is often criticised for being “a

CSW65 Opening Session

Blog by Pat Black, SI Special Advisor to Advocacy Usually it isn’t easy to get into the opening session of CSW. It is often held in the main United Nations (UN) General Assembly hall which is very impressive but there has in the past been a limitation on the number