Please join us on Zoom on Monday 27 April 2026 from 7.30pm to hear first-hand about the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 2026, CSW70, with the theme “Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls”.
Guests of the Club should please email sistalbans@hotmail.com to register
Ann Beatty is a member of Soroptimist International St Albans & District and also the Chief Executive of the education charity the Steve Sinnott Foundation. Ann attended CSW (see photo) as one of the representatives from Soroptimist International Great Britain and Ireland and will share her experience and learning with the Zoom audience. There will be time for questions and we plan to end by 8.30pm.
Soroptimist International has consultative status at the United Nations – click here to find out more https://sigbi.org/what-we-do/soroptimists-and-the-un/
The seventieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place from 9 to 19 March 2026. The priority theme of the session was: Ensuring and strengthening access to justice for all women and girls, including by promoting inclusive and equitable legal systems, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies, and practices, and addressing structural barriers. The review theme was: Women’s full and effective participation and decision making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.
Click here to read more: https://www.unwomen.org/en/how-we-work/commission-on-the-status-of-women/csw70-2026
Ann will be able to share her views on how well the aims of CSW70 were met, and what she thinks is likely to happen next.
There were Soroptimists there from the other four Federations ensuring that members from all over the world were represented. Have you spotted Ann in this photo?