{"id":6273,"date":"2026-03-09T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/weybridge\/?p=6273"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:06:37","slug":"womens-rights-still-need-justice-action-its-not-a-walk-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/weybridge\/2026\/03\/09\/womens-rights-still-need-justice-action-its-not-a-walk-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rights still need Justice &amp; Action it&#8217;s not a walk in the park&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">As the Commission on the Status of Women #CSW70 brings together world experts, the public and NGOs at the United Nations HQ in New York today, soroptimists around the world gather too in person to attend sessions, discuss evidence founded on local and international community action and to review progress made in women&#8217;s rights, peace and public life.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">The seventieth session of the\u00a0<a title=\"Commission on the Status of Women\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/how-we-work\/commission-on-the-status-of-women\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"ebd8b453-4488-4923-b562-30ba9da1099a\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\">Commission on the Status of Women<\/a> runs from 9 to 19 March 2026.\u00a0Representatives of\u00a0<a title=\"Member States\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/csw\/member-states\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"6c254c1a-972a-455f-8d60-ec3512627f8b\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\">Member States<\/a>, UN entities, and\u00a0<a title=\"NGO participation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/csw\/ngo-participation\" data-entity-type=\"node\" data-entity-uuid=\"039126af-641e-4e70-990a-0ece4aee3dd3\" data-entity-substitution=\"canonical\">ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs)<\/a>\u00a0from all regions of the world are invited to attend the session.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Themes<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\"><strong>Priority theme:\u00a0<\/strong>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<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\"><strong>Review theme:<\/strong>\u00a0Women\u2019s 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 (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.un.org\/E\/CN.6\/2021\/L.3\">agreed conclusions of the sixty-fifth session<\/a>)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Yesterday March 8th, International Women&#8217;s Day was celebrated across the world for the 115th year. Whilst this acknowledgment of progress in the last century has many facets and dimensions depending on legal, political and public circumstances and equality in each region soroptimists know there is still much to do to enable women and girls&#8217; health, wellbeing, education access, equality and peace.\u00a0 Our projects focus of enabling, empowering and advocating for these aims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">&#8220;Women\u2019s 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&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Local Action<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Yesterday in harmony men and women from our community who support this aim and raised their voices walked together in\u00a0 the spring air at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.painshill.co.uk\/\">@Painshill<\/a>, Cobham, Surrey, UK. Alongside our British, American and Afghan club members we shared aspects pf the day with guests and the public including Syrians, Ukrainians and visitors to the park who expressed interest in our activities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.painshill.co.uk\/celebrating-international-womens-day-an-interview-with-painshills-first-director\/\">#Painshill<\/a> a community partner\u00a0 and early advocate for women generously supported the walk with concession tickets and space to share our #IWD messaging with the local community and visitors, for that we are most grateful<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Our aim yesterday? To foster community friendship, widen awareness of the need for action and advocacy and our club activities to improve and help local women and girls. We too shared our communal strength of feeling as soroptimists talking action for our disadvantaged and oppressed sisters in Afghanistan, sharing the statement issued to us by local Afghan advocates. This next week our club will meet the author of &#8220;Escape from Kabul&#8221; in person and and two Afghan judicial\/ministers to\u00a0 discuss what is potentially the most important test of human rights in a generation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px\">Quote from the club issued #IWD26 statement\u00a0 &#8220;The systematic\u00a0restrictions imposed on Afghan women and girls are not only a national crisis but also a true test of\u00a0the world\u2019s commitment to gender equality, justice, and human dignity. For women and girls in\u00a0Afghanistan, the fight for equality is no longer abstract.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Who are soroptimists?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Soroptimists are women volunteers who work in friendship and unison around the world through 250 local clubs to focus on projects which impact women and girls (in correlation with the UN Sustainable Development Goals) in local communities. As advocates for women and girls and friends who share a passion for using their skills, expertise and compassion to enable change, we meet up monthly to socialise and plan projects. The federation SIGBI International GB&amp;I oversees the international club structure, reporting our activities to the UN representatives and strategy\/donations and policy. Read about the work and ethos in this recent article published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/londonnews\">London. Daily<\/a> or on the <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/\">SIGBI<\/a> website<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Commission on the Status of Women #CSW70 brings together world experts, the public&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,4,104,164,126,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-club-news","category-diary","category-education","category-food-poverty","category-fundraising","category-womens-health","post_format-post-format-quote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Women&#039;s Rights still need Justice &amp; Action it&#039;s not a walk in the park&quot; | News | Blog | Events | SI Weybridge and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Weybridge and District : Blog &amp; News : Women&#039;s Rights still need Justice &amp; Action it&#039;s not a walk in the park&quot; : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Weybridge and District . 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