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The World Bank Declines to Adopt a Mandatory Gender Policy!
Gender Action demonstrates in its Gender Review and Recommendations on the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework. Access here. [...]
Women Demand Climate Justice At The People’s Climate March
Hundreds of women and men, friends and family, feminists, activists, and allies, including long-time gender equality champion, former President of Finland, Her Excellency Tarja Halonen, marched to [...]
Women’s Major Group Response to the Report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing coordinated by APWLD
Read the Women's Major Group Response to the Report of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing. Download here [...]
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) meeting on Accountability and Monitoring for Post-2015 and Sustainable Development Goals on 15th of September 2014
Women's Major Group and other Major Groups met with the newly appointed executive secretary of the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), Mr. Christian Friis Bach, former minister o [...]
Good news: UN resolution on Debt restructuring passed!
The Women’s Major Group welcomes the UN resolution which was passed by 124 votes to 11 on Tuesday at 21:30 CET, and which gives the United Nations the mandate to create a multilateral legal framewo [...]
Women’s Major Group calls on all to participate in the Peoples General Assembly in NY
Peoples General Assembly for Development Justice on 24th September at the First Presybeterian Church in New York. The objectives of the event are to: 1. Build public pressure on governments arou [...]
Women’s Major Group speakers and participants at the Women and Climate Leader’s Forum
Leaders’ Forum on Women Leading the Way: Raising Ambition for Climate Action, Learning Circles. All participants at the Forum will take part in learning circles. These learning circles offer the op [...]
People’s Climate Marche in New York City
People worldwide are calling for the largest climate march in history: “Igniting ambition, action, and urgency to this moment, in New York City there will be an unprecedented climate mobilizatio [...]
UN Women, DAWN and Women’s Major Group co-organise Side Event “Beijing+20 and Beyond”
UN Women, DAWN and Women's Major Group co-organise Side Event "Beijing+20 and Beyond", on Tuesday 2nd of September, at the 3rd Small Island Developing States (SIDS) global UN conference, taking pla [...]
Women Major Group SIDS Cluster: Working toward the 3rd UN Global Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States will be held from 1-4 September 2014 in Apia, Samoa, to be preceded by activities related to the conference from 28 to 30 August [...]