The United Nations Office in Geneva is the second largest UN Centre, after New York. It is a focal point for multilateral diplomacy, human rights, labour, peace and security. The UN’s Human Rights Council and its human rights review mechanisms are based in Geneva, including the Convention on the Elimination
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OUR PEOPLE SI BOARD OF DIRECTORS Siew Yong Gnanalingam SI President 2024-25/Chair of SI Global Policy Committee Leigh Ellwood Brown Director of Advocacy 2024-25/ Chair of Global Impact Committee WENDY LOGAN SI Treasurer 2024-25 Anthea Penny Chair of Governance Committee Fatimata Tambadou Sabine Reimann CONNIE MUTUNHU Barbara Kohl Chair of
SOROPTIMIST REPRESENTATIVE ADVOCATES FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS AT CEDAW The 65th session of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is taking place in Geneva 24 October – 18 November 2016. Soroptimist International’s UN Representatives in Geneva, Wilfreda Hendrickx, Sabine Kinzer and
by Soroptimist International President, Yvonne Simpson "The Soroptimist International Board renewed its commitment to a world of peace, gender equality, and human rights at its September Board meeting. Soroptimist International moved forward with a revised mission to meet the SI vision, with confirmed principles and five strategic priorities in a
Around 800 government representatives, crime experts and civil society partners are expected to meet this week 17-21 October, to discuss the global challenges of transnational organized crime. The eighth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) promotes the strategies needed
International Day of Older Persons Blog by SI UN Representative Sabine Kinzer “1 October, the 2016 United Nations International Day of Older Persons (UNIDOP) will take a stand against ageism by drawing attention to and challenging negative stereotypes and misconceptions about older persons and ageing. In Geneva, this day will be
The 2016 United Nations International Day of Older Persons (UNIDOP) will take a stand against ageism by drawing attention to and challenging negative stereotypes and misconceptions about older persons and ageing. A blog by Sabine Kinzer, SI UN Representative Geneva Photo: Geneva Ageing committee together with the Independent Expert
Finances will play a key role in the forthcoming Soroptimist International Board Meeting, to be held in Cambridge, home of the SI Headquarters. SI will be drawing on the expertise of the Finance Committee and with this in mind, we take 'Five Minutes' to get to know a little
Protecting the Rights of Older Persons: - The Open-ended Working Group on Ageing and the UN Treaty Bodies Technical briefing 19 August 2016, Geneva within the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Older people worldwide experience discrimination and the violation of their rights at family, community and
