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Helping Women and Girls to Live Their Dreams Through "Educate to Lead"

This week's SoroptiVoice blog comes from SIA Executive Director Liz Lucas. Having been in post for almost 12 months, she takes the opportunity to reflect on what the SI 'Educate to Lead' programme of work means for Soroptimist International of the Americas, and how Soroptimists are helping thousands of women

What Do Reproductive Rights Have to do with Sustainable Development?

This week's SoroptiVoice blog comes from SI Assistant Programme Director Anusha Santhirasthipam. She has just returned from the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development Conference, which concluded on June 22nd. Whilst the events of last week are still fresh in her mind, she reflects on why sexual and reproductive health

Rio+20 News: Women's Organisations Express Discontent with Rio Outcome

On Sunday 24 June 2012, the Women’s Major Group (WMG), representing 200 civil society women’s organizations from all around the world issued a statement to express great disappointment with the results of the Rio+20 conference. Soroptimist International is a member of the Women’s Major Group and an active participant in

Sustainable Development: For Who?

As the Rio+20 Earth Summit is held this month we can read and hear lots about ‘sustainable development’ from different perspectives. But how many of us can actually relate to this terminology and know about the importance of discussions held in Rio to human existence on our planet? SIE Programme

Rio+20: Successful Outcome for Women? Only Time Will Tell.

Suba, SIE Programme Executive is blogging and tweeting live from the UN Conference on Sustainable Development - known as Rio+20. We have a Soroptimist delegation observing the high level discussions, participating in the side events and networking with other NGOs. Progress over the past few months has been slow when

World Environment Day: June 5th

World Environment Day is only 2 weeks away. As the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) draws ever closer (June 20-22), the need to press our international decision makers to take decisive steps to ensure sustainable development, safeguard the environment and to promote equitable use of resources has never been

Five More Days to Negotiate the Rio+20 Outcome Document: May 29 – June 2

Press Release: May 17, 2012 issued by UNCSD Representatives from governments who were negotiating the Rio+20 outcome document agreed to add five additional days to their deliberations in order to bridge differences that have hampered progress to date. The move came on 4 May as the latest round of negotiations

UN Crime Commission: The Forgotten Children

The SI UN Vienna Representatives report back from the UN Crime Commission The Forgotten Children Many of the side events which took place during the recent session of the Crime Commission were on the children of incarcerated parents. These side events, together with the many papers that were presented,

Rio+20: An Urgent Call for Action

International Assistant Programme Director Anusha Santhirasthipam reports back from a week of meetings at the UN centre in New York, focussing on Rio+20 preparations and the policy asks of the Women's Major Stakeholder Group. “83 days to The Future We Want” says the countdown banner at the top of the official

CSW Blog Special! Unlocking Rural Women's Potential…

Wow - it is one year since we launched the SoroptiVoice Blog at CSW 55! And now we are back again, reporting live from CSW 56 which is due to close today. Thank you to our team of Soroptimist delegates who have been keeping us up to date with all

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