The very first Dutch professor in Human Rights Education (HRE) in the Netherlands, Felisa Tibbitts, held her inaugural speech at the Utrecht University this week. This chair of HRE was funded by a legacy of Soroptimist Carla Looman and put in place in close cooperation with the Utrecht University and Soroptimists of the Netherlands.
November, sees the first in a series of exciting new interactive webinars organised by Soroptimist International for the Soroptimist membership. As part of the SI Leadership Development programme, November will see four Webinars covering SDG 5 & 6 and the President's Appeal 'Women, Water & Leadership'.
SI Club Ba, Fiji, ran a project called 'SI Youths Reaching Out to Rural Women and Girls and Educating Them for Better Health & Better Life', working with women from four villages of Navala, Namau, Nadrugu and Tabuquto, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji.
Each year, NGO CSW/NY has between five to eight interns to help facilitate the mission of the committee to achieve gender equality, and to help with the customer service during the actual Commission. Since 2016, Soroptimist International has sponsored the internship programme. Here, we get to know a little about the interns for 2017/2018.
The official celebration of World Food Day on 16 October 2017 has the theme: 'Change the future of migration. Invest in food security and rural development'. In a blog, SI UN Representative, Rome, Liliana Mosca reports on this weeks' 44th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 44), 9-13 October 2017, held at the Headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome, Italy.
The coming week sees three notable International days, leading with, 15 October, The International Day for Rural Women, closely followed by World Food Day on 16 October and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October.
29 July 2017, Rotterdam, Mariet Verhoef-Cohen, Netherlands was inaugurated with overwhelming support as President of Soroptimist International (SI) for the 2017 – 2019 biennium; the first Dutch President in the organisation’s almost 100-year existence. In our first interview for the new SI Members Area, we talk to Mariet about her history as a Soroptimist, her love of Gender and Water, and her plans for the coming biennium.
