Advocacy
The WMG facilitates advocacy by its members, including through an Advocacy List that is made up of non-government and non-UN WMG members. The WMG advocacy incorporates multiple aspects: development of position papers and common messaging; communications via traditional and social media; meetings with delegates and allies; mapping statements and position of Member States; and hosting side events.
The advocacy work aims to represent the diversity of the WMG voices and interests, global/regional/national levels and thematic focus, while also developing common positions and messaging.
The WMG also ensures that advocacy content incorporates all dimensions of sustainable development and those positions are equally represented when meeting in person with delegates or when writing positions.
Intervention forests at Convention on Biological Diversity’s SBSTTA
"As a worldwide coalition of Indigenous peoples organizations and NGOs from 53 different countries we look forward to a substantive debate on forests at the upcoming Conference of the Parties". Rea [...]
Climate Negotiations: COP 21
Agenda: * Sunday 8 – Tue 10 November: Informal negotiations at the conference centre of the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Paris, including a 1,5 hour session with Major Groups/Constituencies on Sunday [...]
Sustainable Development Summit, 2015: Emilia Reyes’s Intervention
We’ve been here to monitor your pledges to achieve the Goals, We’ll remind you and support you in them all. We’ll walk the path with you, sometimes in rhyme, most times in prose, Towards that equa [...]
Women’s Major Group: Feminist Forum
Dear Feminists, The Women’s Major Group will host a Feminist Forum on September 24th, the day before the Post-2015 Summit. Feminists and women’s rights activists will come together to discuss, deba [...]
Women’s Major Group Letter to the attention of USGs Ms Amina Mohammed and Mr Thomas Gass
"Overall concern: Although it is good that many different people have become engaged in spreading the word about the 2030 Agenda and the 17 SDGs, we call on leadership from the UN to avoid triviali [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pinar Ilkkaracan’s (WWHR) statement on Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations: on the outcome document
"If our hard-fought stand-alone goal on gender equality, along with its targets, is not placed within the general framework of Beijing, ICPD and their reviews, it will attain a rather much limited [...]