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Feminist Advocacy Ends UN Women’s Partnership with BlackRock, Inc
Following feminist collaborative campaigns, UN Women has finally ended its partnership with trillion dollar asset management firm, BlackRock. On 25 May 2022, UN Women announced a partnership with Blac [...]
Reflections after HLPF, towards UNGA
Recently, civil society groups have raised concerns about the very real possibilities that the SDGs will not be achieved until 2065, and that gender equality and women’s rights won’t be achieve [...]
Feminist Collective Statement on the Sri Lankan Crisis
(Collective statement by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development and Women’s Major Group) We stand in solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka, particularly with the grassroots women who are c [...]
HLPF 2022 Interventions
In this year’s High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF), feminists of Women’s Major Group came together to draft interventions, which we were able to deliver in official thematic [...]
WMG Highlights from HLPF 2022!
WMG Highlights from HLPF 2022! HLPF 2022 has been an amazing two weeks with our members and allies in New York and online. The challenges of participation and process were still very much there, furth [...]
HLPF 2022 Alternative VNR Reports by Our Members
Similar to previous years, the Women’s Major Group’s members throughout the World, have prepared Alternative / Shadow Reports for their countries’ Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). The list of HLPF 2 [...]
WMG joins 200+ NGOs drafting letter to the UN Secretary-General on NGO access to HQ in New York
WMG recently joined hands with more than 200 NGOs in drafting a letter to the UN Secretary-General (UNSG) raising concerns surrounding NGO access to the UN Head Quarters in New York. The collective ef [...]
WMG brings Feminist Voice to Stockholm +50
Stockholm+50 High Level Meeting looked at the past 50 years of global environmental action, under the theme: “Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportu [...]
Position Paper for HLPF 2022
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.” ― Arundhati Roy The Women’s Major Group is excited to launch our Position Paper for the 2022 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF). Gathering the i [...]
WMG @ UNEA statement at Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) Against Plastic Pollution
WMG @ UNEA Statement - Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) to Prepare for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution Thank you, chair. I am going to speak in Spanish no [...]