Soroptimist International will be celebrating the benefits that equality for women brings for everyone on International Women's Day (8 March).   Following UN Women's announcement of their theme for this year's IWD, Equality for Women is Progress for All, SI will be producing a series of resources to promote understanding

February is proving to be a busy month for Soroptimist International's UN Representatives, New York. They recently attended the Opening Session to the 8th Session of the Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals held from February 3 - 7. UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka opened the Session

Soroptimist International's UN Representative in Geneva, Sabine Kinzer, who is part of the Non Governmental Organisation Group for the Commission on the Status of Women (NGO CSW) in Geneva, recently met with UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Ms. Mlambo-Ngcuka shared with Sabine and the NGO CSW group what her

Soroptimist International will be partnering with key organisations and speakers at this year’s CSW58 to host several side events. Our first side event entitled ‘Pink is the New Blue: Opening Doors for Women and Girls’ will explore the barriers faced by girls and women in entering into traditionally male-dominated fields,

Soroptimist Winnie Maru has been very busy, not only did she attend the Fifth Feminist Leadership, Movement Building and Rights Institute in Nairobi for a week-long course designed to strengthen feminist leadership, but on the 9th January she also starred on KTN, a Kenyan television channel, on a show called

Four new Soroptimist representatives have joined our dynamic UN teams in New York and Paris to take over the influential international advocacy roles of retiring Soroptimist delegates. Soroptimist International’s UN representatives are active at all six major UN centres.  With SI’s General Consultative Status at the UN, these expert volunteers

  Soroptimists Nisha Ghosh and Naina Shah from India have visited the UN in Vienna to share information about femicide and agencies working to support women and girls in their country.   The visit was arranged by SI’s lead UN Representative in Vienna, Dora Vrdlovec, and included a meeting with Civil