SI Signs Rio+20 Women's Major Stakeholder Group Submission

Soroptimist International has added its support to the Rio+20 Women Major Stakeholder’s Group Statement. SI has been represented by SI UN Representative Alice Odingo during the meetings and discussions on this statement. The Global Women’s Major Group submission is submitted in response to the request for input by the Secretariat

Helping our Community to Help Itself

This week's SoroptiVoice comes from Sue Tonks, from SI Bolton in Lancashire, England. She has been a Soroptimist for 3 years. Her club have developed and run many events in their home town, to help other organisations, spread education and information and promote Soroptimism. The event Sue describes below is

WAGGGS: We Can Save Our Planet Campaign

WAGGGS is on the road to Rio+20 via the Climate Change Conference COP17 in Durban. To ensure the voices of girls and young women are heard in the negotiations on climate change and sustainable development, WAGGGS have launched the ‘we can save our planet’ campaign'. The campaign pulls together community

Think Equal: Soroptimist International at the World Bank!

This week’s SoroptiVoice is from Heather Brotsos, a member in Washington DC and the Soroptimist International representative at the 2011 World Bank Civil Society Policy Forum. Heather reports back from the largest ever Civil Society Policy Forum where over 600 CSO representatives met with World Bank and International Monetary Fund

SI Attends World Bank Civil Society Forums in Washington D.C

Last week, Heather Brotsos from SIA represented SI at a series of World Bank and International Monetary Fund Civil Society Forms in Washington D.C. Over 600 Civil Society Organisations participated in a four day programme of discussions to promote dialogue between civil society representatives and these two international organisation. Topics

DPI/NGO Blog Special: From "Who?" to "Wow!"

Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the third of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next few days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Here, Anusha Santhirasthipam, SI's Assistant Programme Director, shares her experiences at the UN Environment Programme consultations which took place in

Soroptimism and cheese. But more about Soroptimism.

This week's blog comes from SIHQ Programme Director, Reilly Dempsey.  She shares how she, though not technically a Soroptimist, is Soroptimism!  Read on and you'll understand....Click HERE to join the Facebook discussion on what Soroptimism means to you.   Okay, so technically I’m not a Soroptimist, but hey, this whole

Youth, Dialogue and Understanding

At the end of July, our UN Rep in New York attended a High Level Meeting on Youth as part of the UN Year of Youth. Carol Themm reports back. The General Assembly held a high Level meeting on youth with 60 international speakers from government and civil society to

World Breastfeeding Week

August 1 – 7: World Breastfeeding Week Breastfeeding... the forgotten natural behavior          Breastfed babies are healthy and happy babies                                           Sarah (3 ½ months) and Fiona (7 ½ months) now 26 and 23 respectively                                                                                                    Julie Marsaban is a founding member of SI Jakarta
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