PROGRAMME:
Soroptimists will ensure that women and girls enjoy equality, live in safe and healthy environments, have access to education and have leadership and practical skills.
OBJECTIVES:
- Eliminate poverty and gender discrimination through ensuring women’s full social and economic rights.
- End human trafficking and all forms of violence against women and girls.
- Ensure access to health care for women and girls.
- Support programmes and policies that eliminate HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis and other major diseases.
- Improve access to clean water, sanitation and essential food resources.
- Mitigate the effects of climate change and integrate sustainability into personal choices and government policies and programmes.
- Meet the needs of women and girls during and after armed conflicts and disasters.
- Promote peaceful conflict resolution, intercultural and inter-racial tolerance and condemn all forms of genocide and terrorism.
- Ensure equal access to education and training for women and girls throughout their lifespan.
- Assure women’s advancement in management, politics and decision making.
