Why the world’s wildfires have become a women’s and girls’ health emergency.
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The SI Board is inviting applications from Soroptimists to join the Working Group that will lead the development of our first international awareness campaign on Gender Medicine.
The tools to end AIDS already exist. What’s missing is political will, sustained investment, and leadership rooted in communities and human rights.
Blog by Evelyne Para, Soroptimist International Representative at UNESCO, Paris.
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Blog by Marie-Christine Gries, Soroptimist International Representatives at UNESCO.
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Dr. Olga Tzortzatou Nanopoulou, SI Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, explores the systemic and political dimensions of breastfeeding support. Reflecting on a WHO and UNICEF webinar, she discusses new tools designed to embed breastfeeding into healthcare systems, the global experiences shared by participating countries, and the urgent need for structural change. The blog underscores breastfeeding as both a public health intervention and a societal responsibility, calling for care that is competent, continuous, and rooted in women’s lived realities.
Liz Batten, of SI Salisbury, continues the conversation on women and health, as discussed in her episode of SI Voices Podcast with this blog post focusing on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 25 years since the visionary Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action for Women have seen dramatic changes globally. While there has been important progress on some fronts, new challenges have emerged, including the current COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the concerns outlined 25 years ago remain deafeningly relevant for women’s and girl’s rights.
As we reach the twenty-five-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, we can say that there have been considerable developments in specific areas of women’s health, but this year, many of these advances have not withstood the effects of the pandemic
Dr. Janet Maker is an inspiring speaker who presented twice during the Breast Cancer awareness month programme at ...
by Maria-Laura Fornella SI Representative to the United Nations New York.
"I attended the Panel on Universal ...
The New York Times article 'Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis' by Linda Villarosa, inspired the NGO Committee Status of Women meetings in New York in May this year. Vanesa Treers reports.
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