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Save the Date: Roles, Rights and Needs of Women in Community Conservation and How to Enhance them within the SDG Framework
Join some of the Women's Major Group partner at the side event hosted by Global Forest Coalition and Community Conservation Resilience Initiative, on Friday, 27th May, at 11 am, in the Green Room - [...]
2nd United Nations Environment Assembly: Delivering on the environmental dimension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The second session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-2) will take place at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, under the overarching theme of Delivering on the environmental dimensi [...]
HLPF 2016: Listen to Women for a Change
national review processes should be undertaken regularly, 3 or 4 times before 2030. Governments should incorporate "major groups, other civil society, constituencies and rights holders into the pro [...]
HLPF 2016: Women’s Major Group Reaction to the HLPF Zero Draft
The Women’s Major Group welcomes the Co-facilitators’ draft resolution of May 6th, towards the processes that will be carried out, so that the HLPF becomes the central body to oversee the implemen [...]
Save the Date: CSW60 Side Event CIS countries Session “Means of Implementation for reaching gender equality in SDG”
Forum of women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan Invites to the parallel session. Tuesday, 15 March 2016, from 16:30 PM – 18:00 PM Room 2, Thai Cultural Center (TCC) located at the 310 of 44th Street. Suite #L [...]
Call for a Feminist UN Secretary-General in 2016
It’s time for change… We believe that a woman Secretary-General must lead the United Nations. After the appointment of eight male Secretaries-General, a female Secretary-General is urgently needed [...]
Aplly for: Civil society speaker for Paris Climate Change Agreement Signing Ceremony
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited all world leaders to a signing ceremony on 22 April for the historic climate agreement that was reached in Paris in December last year. The [...]
Women’s Movement’s Engagement in the SDGs: Lessons Learned from the Women’s Major Group
"The Women's Major Group's role is to assure effective public participation of women's non-government groups in the United Nations (UN) policy processes on Sustainable Development, the post-2015 d [...]
The second Open-Ended Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-2)
Members of the Women’s Major Group presented their key issues on COP21 Paris Agreement at UNEP OECPR 2 meeting in Nairobi. Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition and WMG Organizing Partner) presente [...]
Call for a Feminist UN Secretary General – sign on
The Women's Major Group is launching the call below and would like to invite widespread participation. Please share widely with your networks. Please access the Google Form to add your organization [...]