The Glasgow Armadillo - venue of the 2007 Int. Convention

The Ten Objectives, as agreed at the International Convention in 2007 are:

1. Eliminate poverty and gender discrimination through ensuring women’s full social and economic rights.
2. End human trafficking and all forms of violence against women and girls.
3. Ensure access to health care for women and girls.
4. Support programmes and policies that would eliminate HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB and other major diseases.
5. Improve access to clean water, sanitation and essential food resources.
6. Mitigate the effects of climate change and integrate sustainability into personal choices and governmental policies and programmes.
7. Meet the needs of women and girls during and after armed conflicts, man-made and natural disasters.
8. Promote peaceful processes for conflict resolution through encouragement of intercultural and inter-racial tolerance and condemnation of all forms of genocide and terrorism.
9. Ensure equal access to education and training throughout their lifespan.
10. Enable women’s advancement in management, politics and decision making.

What happened to the six Programme Areas?

The six Programme Areas were Economic & Social Development, Education, Environment, Health, Human Rights & Status of Women and International Goodwill & Understanding. The list of objectives above embraces all of the six programme areas but is no longer listed by these categories.

In July 2007, at the International Convention in Glasgow, Programme Voting Delegates wanted the objectives to be as clear and broad for each topic as they could be and not ’limited’ by the title or category as they were before.

When completing the on-line Programme Focus Forms for the International Database only the 10 Objectives are listed. Soroptimists no longer have to allocate work to one of the six Programme Areas as before.