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Women’s Major Group Proposals from UNEA on better Integrating Environment and Gender
Read the Women's Major Group combined proposals documents from UNEA on better integrating environment and gender for the upcoming session of the open working group on sustainable development goals. [...]
Major Groups and Stakeholders call on Ministers at the 1st United Nations Environment Assembly for ambitious outcomes
We are fully committed to making UNEA an historic opportunity for the international community to come and work together to respond with vision and determination to the hopes and aspirations of hu [...]
UN Environment Assembly: Sascha Gabizon’s Intervention
Read Sascha Gabizon's (WECF) combined presentation delivered on behalf of the WMG on priorities for Sustainable Development Goals at WMG side event during the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), held [...]
12th Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from 16-20 June, 2014
This Twelfth Session of the General Assembly took place at the UN Headquarters and dealt with 17 Goals. Read the Women's Major Group Input Zero Draft. Download here [...]
12th Session of the Open Working Group (12OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Women’s Major Group Summary Draft
The Women’s Major Group welcomes the zero-draft for Sustainable Development Goals as presented by the co-chairs of the Open Working Group on June 3rd, which sets a good basis for ambitious global g [...]
12th Session of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), NY
A delegation of the Women’s Major Group took part in the twelfth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Developments Goals, 16-20 of June at the United Nations HQ in New York. The OWG was pr [...]
Open Letter to the Co-chairs and Member States from Major Groups and Stakeholders
We call into mind the compromise that co-chairs had made, to have ‘informal informals’ in the week preceding the open working group meeting. We, therefore, object that the informals were resumed du [...]
The role of partnerships in the implementation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Several members of the Women's Major Group were selected to speak during the High-level event of the General Assembly on "The role of partnerships in the implementation of the Post-2015 Development [...]
Planning for Sustainable, Gender-Equitable and Climate-Proof Development
Women Major Group invites you to the UNFCCC Side Event. The event has the aims to give an overview about linkages between gender, climate, and development from different perspectives and to addre [...]
The new co-chairs Focus Areas document for Open Working Group 12
Sustainable Development Goals are accompanied by targets and will be further elaborated through indicators focused on measurable outcomes. They are action-oriented, global in nature and universally [...]