Co-chair of the NGO Committee on Social Development, Maria Fornella-Oehninger, gives us a rundown of the parallel events at this year's High-level Political Forum (HLPF 2021).
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The Generation Equality forum in Paris began on 30 June, 2021 with an opening ceremony of nearly four hours well used, on an intensive pace. The general tone was set from the address of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron: no political tongue-in-cheek, no evasive overflight, no laborious justifications on the slow progress since Beijing...
The world is going through a phase of profound change, which is disrupting the way we live, work and think. All over the world, the automation of low-skilled jobs is growing, and as a result these low-skilled jobs, often associated with repetitive tasks carried out by women, will gradually disappear, whilst people with higher levels of education and skills are increasingly required in the labour market.
Here is a project update from SI Damansara, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia where local women are being empowered with sewing and business skills.
Blog by Maria Fornella-Oehninger, SI United Nations Representative in New York and Co-chair of the NGO Committee ...
Blog by Linda Witong, SI Special Advisor to Advocacy
Read SI's Written Statement submitted to CCPCJ30 ...
The seventy-seventh session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), held from 26 ...
Soroptimists have always been dedicated to addressing the issues related to the environment.
The first-ever ...
Maria Fornella-Oehninger, SI United Nations Representative in New York, gives us an insight to how spaces for civil society are shrinking at the United Nations. Maria outlines how we have to continue efforts to engage NGOs and partners, to make real impactful change.
SI United Nations (UN) Representative, Evelyne Para, brings us the final instalment in her series of blogs about how Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. This blog focuses on Ecological Reconstruction.
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.
SI United Nations (UN) Representative, Evelyne Para, brings us the third instalment in her series of blogs about ...
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