Source: UN Women Earlier this month, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet announced a new initiative to boost women’s roles in conflict resolution. In an address, she described how UN Women will create an international roster of gender experts who can be rapidly deployed to work on issues such as

 38 NGOs, including Soroptimist International, have joined an NGO statement assessing the draft UN declaration on Human Rights Education and Training. This is being presented at the 16th session of the Human Rights Council, which meets this week. The statement reflects discussions facilitated by the NGO working group on Human Rights

 Soroptimist International were honoured to be invited to take part in a Commonwealth Observance Day in the Wellington Cathedral, New Zealand, on March 14, 2011. Yvonne Simpson, President of SI South West Pacific took part. Yvonne reports: "The theme of the day was “Women, Agents of Change” and my address reflected

Congratulations to Hilary Ratcliffe and Anusha Santhirasthipam on their international programme appointments!  SI received a number of strong applications for the advertised posts of International Programme Director and International Assistant Programme Director.  We can now announce that Hilary Ratcliffe has been appointed as International Programme Director and Anusha Santhirasthipam as

Last month, NGOs accredited to UNESCO, in partnership with the Division of Human Rights of UNESCO, organised a Young Persons Forum on the theme "Women, Africa and Human Development ". The event took place over an afternoon and focused on  raising awareness amongst young people aged 15-25 years of human rights, education and culture. Over

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.

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:

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

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

 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