Welcome

The Socialist International Women is the international organisation of the women's organisations of the socialist, social democratic and labour parties affiliated to the Socialist International. There are currently 149 member organisations from all parts of the world. The aims and objectives of the Socialist International Women are:

  • To promote gender equality, combat all forms of discrimination against women and to promote women's rights which are human rights;
  • To strengthen relations between member organisations of the Socialist International Women with the aim to coordinate political positions and activities;
  • To encourage its member organisations to ensure the implementation of resolutions and declarations adopted at meetings of the Socialist International Women;
  • To seek to extend relations between member organisations of the Socialist International Women and other socialist-oriented women's groups and organisations which are not members but are committed to the advancement of gender equality and desire to work in cooperation with the Socialist International Women;
  • To promote action programmes to overcome any discrimination against women and girls, and to empower women and girls in all fields and
  • To work for development, peace and human rights in general.

The Socialist International Women is a non-governmental organisation with consultative status at the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

 

News

Regional Meeting

Mexico City, Mexico, 01 June 2013

Equal pay, working conditions and informal work

Statement: International Women's Day 2013

08 March 2013

It was Socialist International Women’s founder Clara Zetkin and her Social Democratic Party colleague Luise Zeite who first suggested that one day a year is marked as International Women's Day...

Event: Empowering Women and Girls to Protect them from Violence

07 March 2013

Fifty-seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), United Nations, New York, from 04 to 15 March 2013.

Panel discussion hosted by the Permanent Mission of Niger to the United Nations and the Socialist International Women.

Event: Ending all Forms of Violence Against Women and Girls

07 March 2013

Fifty-seventh Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), United Nations, New York, from 04 to 15 March 2013.

Panel discussion hosted by the Socialist International Women

Article: Ending the War against Women

02 February 2013

On Valentine’s Day, countless couples will celebrate romance by candlelight. On the same day, one billion women and men worldwide will stand up to shine a light on the darker side of gender relations...

Council Meeting

Lisbon, Portugal, 01 and 02 February 2013

The International Financial Crisis and the Impact on Women

Statement: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

25 November 2012

A day for the elimination of violence against women first began in 1981 when women activist started commemorating 25 November as the day that three sisters, from the Dominican Republic, were brutally assassinated for their political activism in 1960...

Executive Meeting

Rabat, Morocco, 02 November 2012

 

Publications

The First Hundred Years

A Short History of Socialist International Women

By Irmtraut Karlsson

This book tells the history of the first one hundred years of the Socialist International Women

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