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Save the Date: Women Major Group Strategy meeting
The WMG will have a strategy meeting during CSW on March 14th, hoping that in that day people who is attending the first as well as the second week may be in NY. Anyone who is member of the WMG is [...]
Intervention from the Women’s Major Group (WMG) Section on “Follow up and Review” Post-2015
"We call to prioritize human rights, gender equality and the full realization of human rights of girls and women of all ages and with disabilities and in all their diversities, including sexual a [...]
Women’s proposals for the Political Declaration of the Post-2015 agenda
The Women’s Major Group acknowledges the Co-facilitators proposed “Elements Paper for Declaration Discussion”, but feels the content and structure need a stronger focus on the Sustainable Developm [...]
Update on Financing for Development Process
Our partners from the Women Working Group on Financing for Development have published a statement of their intervention delivered to the United Nations, by Nicole Bidegain, which provides the key m [...]
“Interesting analysis shared by FEMNET”: The Backlash Against African Women
Read Sisonke Msimang's analysis released at The New York Times on the 10th January 2015. Download in PDF here or access The New York Times link. [...]
Women Major Group Response to the SG’s Synthesis Report: “The Road to Dignity by 2030”
The Women’s Major Group presents its analysis and response to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Report “The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty, Transforming All Lives and Protecting the P [...]
Women at COP 20 Blast Failure for Real Action in Lima: “Time to Stop Calling and Start Doing. Leaders, You Have 12 Months to get it Right.”
Members of the UNFCCC’s Women and Gender Constituency, representing hundreds of thousands of women and men from around the world, respond to the failure of the Lima outcome to reflect the urgency [...]
High-level Thematic Debates and Events to be convened by the President of the 69th Session of the General Assembly
See the 2015 Agenda for the High-level Thematic Debates and Events to be convened by the President of the 69th Session of the General Assembly:i) High-Level Thematic Debate on Means of Implementatio [...]
Statement prepared by feminists and allies at the Financial Transparency Coalition and Latindad Conference
Hidden Money, Hidden Resources: Financing Development with Transparency: Why tackle the links between illicit capital flows, tax policies, and gender justice? held in Lima, 14 – 15 October 2014. Do [...]
FEMNET report on African CSO Beijing+20 participation and policy statement
African women have been at the forefront of shaping the global agenda for women's rights from the 3rd World Conference on Women in Nairobi in 1985 that resulted in the "Nairobi Forward-Looking Str [...]