News & Events
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WMG Presents in Finland & UN Women VNRs Briefing
Mabel Bianco, OP for Latin America & the Caribbean, presented on behalf of the WMG at the Finland & UN Women virtual briefing on integrating a gender perspective in the VNRs. Read the transcri [...]
Women Constituency Statement at AP People’s Forum for Sustainable Development
At the "ASIA PACIFIC PEOPLES’ FORUM FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2020: Solidarity and System Change are the only Antidotes to COVID-19 Crisis" that took place virtually between 26 - 30 November 2020 th [...]
WMG Members Lead Dialogue About Care in LAC
Report on the dialogue about care in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Women's Group of the CS Participation Mechanism from Latin American and the Caribbean for Sustainable Development [...]
WMG joins 245 organisations for a call to support the United Nations Special Procedures
WMG joins 245 organisations and 83 individuals for a call to support the United Nations Special Procedures for it to "survive" the COVID-19 pandemic, initiated by the Ours Initiative. "UN Special Proc [...]
WMG joins 950+ organizations to call for a “Right to a Healthy Environment”
WMG joins 950+ organizations worldwide for the "Global Call for the UN Human Rights Council to urgently recognise the Right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment" "As the pre-eminent i [...]
WMG joins 500+ organizations to demand “Cancel the Debt”
WMG joins 500+ organizations on a call for immediate debt cancellation to help lower-income countries fight Covid-19. "We demand for much more than "debt'relief," we demand debt justice." The full sta [...]
WMG joins 500+ organizations on a letter to IMF to stop austerity measures
WMG joined 500+ organizations in a letter to the International Monetary Fund, "warning that its support programs, which have had to be ramped up to cope with COVID-19, were condemning many countries t [...]
Sascha Gabizon spoke at UNGA Beijing+25 Special Session
Sascha Gabizon, executive director of Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) and a previous organizing partner of WMG, delivered a very strong speech on behalf of civil society, at the High-level Me [...]
HLPF 2020 Interventions by WMG members
In this year's virtual High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF), feminists of Women's Major Group came together to draft interventions, 12 of which we were able to deliver in offi [...]
Intervention in WSSCC/OHCHR/WaterAid Roundtable July 23
WMG member Shaila Shahid, Senior Advisor of Climate Change, DRR, and Gender at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), gave an intervention on most vulnerable groups livi [...]