News & Events
Stay informed about all news from the Women’s Major Group. Here you can find the latest articles, events, campaigns, tools and more related to sustainable development, Agenda 2030, sustainable development goals, indicators, the high level political forum, etc …
Solidarity Strike for Climate at CSW63
We are calling on all feminists and activists at CSW63 in New York who are concerned about our urgent climate crisis to walk out of the UN and other spaces they are in on Friday, March 15 at 11:00 [...]
UNEA 4: Damaris Uja’s delivered Combined Statement of Major Groups Women, Workers and Trade Unions
Watch Damaris Uja's (WEP) combined intervention on behalf of the Women, Workers and Trade Unions Major Groups, delivered at the 4th Meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly, held in Nairo [...]
UNEA 4: Intervention by Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition)
Watch Isis Alvarez's (Global Forest Coalition) combined intervention on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 4th Meeting of UNEA, held in Nairobi, March 2019. Access here. [...]
UNEA 4: Khawla Almuhanedi’s Intervention on the Combined Statement of the Major Groups and Stakeholders
Watch Khawla Almuhanedi's (Environment Friend Society, Bahrain, NGO Major Group) combined intervention on behalf of the Major Groups and Stakeholders, delivered at the fourth session of the United [...]
UNEA 4: WMG Side Event on Why is Gender Important in Envoronmental Governance?
Join the WMG at the side event on Understanding UNEA 4 resolution to promote gender equality, and the human rights and empowerment of women and girls in environmental governance: the 1st gender [...]
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women: CSW63
"The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019. The main theme is Social protection system [...]
UNEA 4: WMG Side Event on Your Trash My Cash
Join us at the skill share session Your Trash My Cash. The session will reflect on skills and good practices for sustainable consumption, Production in Energy, Water, Chemicals & Waste from di [...]
Fourth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4)
This year the 4th Meeting of the UN Environment Assembly has as the main theme ‘Innovative Solutions for Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Consumption and Production,’ and it will address the [...]
Comments on Draft Ministerial Declaration of the 2019 United Nations Environment Assembly
The WMG is concerned about the fact that this language proposed is going back 25 years in time since there is already a 2020 target to phase out harmful toxic chemicals in consumer products under [...]
Global Pact for the Environment Meeting: Janice Cox’s Intervention
We would like this to include the delineation of updated and enhanced environmental principles. Read Janice Cox's (World Animal Net) intervention on Draft NGO Comments on Conclusions, on behalf [...]