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Letter to To the attention of: First Vice-President Frans Timmermans European Commission
"We call for the creation of a robust, effective, participatory and transparent monitoring and accountability mechanism at EU level to guide and review implementation of the strategy, to analyse pr [...]
Save the date! Transformation our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The International Women’s Health Coalition and Women’s Major Group invite you to a private reception to Celebrate "Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the Roger [...]
Land Rights: An Essential Global Indicator for the Post-2015 SDGs
"Leveraging decades of extensive expertise, a broad coalition of global and national organizations, civil society, and experts, including the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Women’s [...]
Calling on WMG members to respond to the Indicator consultation: Menstrual Hygiene Management
Calling on all member states and stakeholders engaged in the indicator process for the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda to add MHM (Menstrual Hygiene Management): Why Menstrual Hy [...]
UNEP’s Major Groups & Stakeholders Branch: election result
Recently, UNEP's Major Groups & Stakeholders Branch called for elections in order to have new co-facilitators for the Major Groups to UNEP. The Women's Major Group is happy to announce that afte [...]
Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 Presents a Bold Vision for Women and Girls Advocates Gear Up for Work to Come
UNITED NATIONS—The Women’s Major Group, made up of more than 600 women’s organizations and networks from around the world, recognizes the historic agenda for global sustainable development that 19 [...]
Ban Ki-moon: Sustainable Development Goals ‘leave no one behind’
"UN secretary general hails ‘people’s agenda’ as member states finally assent to targets lauded for poverty pledge despite skepticism about implementation"... Read more here [...]
A Universal Agenda? Echoes of Colonial Power Dominate Post 2015 negotiations
"In the final week of intergovernmental negotiations taking place in New York, civil society, from both the Global North and Global South, remain concerned about the EU’s continued ‘business as usu [...]
The United States Could Undermine Sustainable Development Agenda
"The Women’s Major Group is urging Northern governments to go beyond the Addis Ababa agreement to develop concrete means of implementation for the Sustainable Development Goals and to address the m [...]
U.N.’s Post-2015 Development Agenda Under Fire
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 29, 2015 (IPS) - The U.N.’s highly ambitious post-2015 development agenda, which is expected to be finalized shortly, has come fire even before it could get off the ground. A gl [...]