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DPI NGO Blog Special: Care as an essential aspect of Sustainability

Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the second of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next ten days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Hilary Ratcliffe reports back on the rest of her DPI/NGO experience. By now, moving towards the end of the third

DPI NGO Blog Special: Networking for Change

Welcome to DPI NGO! This is the first of a series of special blog reports that will be posted over the next ten days about this 64th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Sustainable Societies, Responsive Citizens. Hilary Ratcliffe is the first to report back on her busy day here in Bonn. We have just eaten lunch with representatives

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

Hunting for Treasure!

This week's SoroptiVoice Blog comes from International President Alice. Here she shares her vision of strategic planning and how, as Soroptimists, we can join together to be global treasure hunters as we work to improve the lives of women and girls. Imagine a world where women and girls are afforded

CEDAW Recommendations on Protection of Women in Conflict Areas

In the October 2010 session, the Commission on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Geneva proposed a general recommendation for the protection of women’s human rights in conflict and post-conflict contexts. On July 18th, 2011 the recommendation was presented to member states and civil society

Missing the goals of green economy – women and children suffer the most

This week's SoroptiVoice Blog comes from SI UN Representative Sina Stiffler. She is based in Geneva. Here she writes about the importance of the green economy and the need to 'do things differently'. Sorry for the late posting this week -normal blog posting to resume this Friday! At the UNCTAD

SI Delivers Oral Statement at ECOSOC High Level Segment

SI UN Representative to Geneva reports back from the recent ECOSOC High Level Segment which closed On July 7th. There are only 4 ½ years to 2015 when the internationally agreed MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) should be reached. Because of this, the recent meeting of ECOSOC dealt with many aspects

New SI Programme Goals and Objectives Agreed!

Soroptimist International is delighted to announce that the new programme goals and objectives for the 2011-2015 quadrennium have been publish! At the Saturday session of the SI Board Meeting, 9th July, we welcomed Programme Voting Delegates (PVDs) from all over the world to discuss and develop the new programme goals

SI Reports from UNESCO Executive Board – International Migration

The Executive Board’s Committee on International Non-Governmental Organizations held four meetings on 5 and 6 May 2011 to examine the “Relations with International Non-Governmental Organizations, Foundations and Similar Institutions”. The meetings were attended by 23 States Members of the Committee and 70 international non-governmental organizations. In his statement, Mr Eric

Breakthrough at the UN: Better conditions for domestic workers

At the 100th Session of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva, the Convention on Domestic workers and the accompanying recommendation were adopted (June 2011) . Only last year the missing rights of a great majority of domestic workers had been widely discussed and it was decided to proceed with the

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