July 2023, Dublin, Ireland will host the highly anticipated Soroptimist International Convention, with the theme 'Challenge the Future'.
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The fifty-fifth session of the UN Commission on Population and Development with the theme of Population and sustainable development, in particular sustained and inclusive economic growth.
Evelyne PARA, UN SI Representative at UNESCO discusses women's leadership in multilateralism.
Nina Smart follows the work of Rugiatu Turray, member of the Soroptimist Six, as she advocates to end the practice of female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone.
SI Advocacy Advisor, Bev Bucur, brings us an insightful overview of this year's Commission on the Status of Women.
On 28 April Soroptimist International will host a virtual event with Stephenie Foster, Author of Take Action: ...
Older women face disproportionate economic empowerment challenges. Immediate Past President, Sharon Fisher lead an important session at CSW66.
Helen Harvey brings us the highlights from SI's CSW66 Event, 'Opening Doors to a Bright Future: Educating, Empowering and Enabling Women'.
Following many hours of discussion and negotiation, the Commission on the Status of Women in its 66th session (CSW66) finally adopted by consensus the Agreed Conclusions on the priority theme ‘Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies, and programmes.
This CSW66 event focused on the feminisation of climate change by sharing women's best practices from Nepal and Taiwan.
Women, Water and Climate Change: Roles and Risks Tackling the Challenges, highlighted the importance of enabling and empowering women to contribute to effective climate action, and demonstrated the necessity of integrating gender-responsive approaches to climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes.
Our role as advocates is to continue to sound the alarm on the important issues addressed at CSW66 such as gender, climate, as well as old age.
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