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.
HLPF 2018: International Solidarity: Local Needs, Global Action
"Transformative global actions to tackle the structural issues requires a fair and functional global system in which civil society, social movements, and environmental and women’s human rights def [...]
HLPF 2018: Means of Implementation, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
"Member States should oppose the push of blending of ODA with privatization investments. Public Private Partnerships remain problematic. We oppose the privatization of public services and faciliti [...]
HLPF 2018: Women Human Rights and Environmental Defenders
"Despite calls from civil society, and recent progress on commitment to WHREDs at a global level, the 2030 agenda fails to highlight the important and legitimate role of WHREDs working on developm [...]
Women Major Group (WMG) Organising Partners 2019-2021 Elections
These past two years the WMG was successful in influencing multiple spaces and mechanisms and even co-chaired the HLPF MGoCoordination Mechanism for the 2nd year in a row. Despite the shrinking of [...]
HLPF 2018: Gertrude Kenyangi’s intervention as Lead Discussant on SGD 15
A policy is only as good as its implementation. It is important to ensure that policies translate into practice. The entire value chain, from the global to the national to the grassroots must be [...]
HLPF 2018: Land, Biodiversity, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
"Laws, policies, programs, and services must fully and intentionally integrate a gender-responsive approach in their formulation and delivery. They must engage and recognize women and indigenous p [...]
HLPF 2018: Amasai Jeke’s Intervenion on Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies: SIDS perspective
"There is no time to exclude any community, including women of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, our islands are sinking we are literally drowning. Species of all kinds, [...]
AHOEEG on Marine Litter and Micro-plastics 2018: Tim Gabriel’s intervention at Item 7 Feasibility and effectiveness of different response options.
"Recognizing that the timeline of these initiatives would not be consistent with the sense of urgency on marine litter and, more specifically, marine plastic pollution, we should also invite UNEP t [...]
AHOEEG on Marine Litter and Micro-plastics 2018: Eugeniy Lobanov ‘s intervention at Item 6 Environmental, social and economic costs and benefits of different response options
"I came from the region of the Baltic Sea, which has been subjected to various contaminants for over a hundred years and is often referred to as the most polluted sea in the world". Eugeniy Lobano [...]
AHOEEG on Marine Litter and Micro-plastics 2018: Shahriar Hossain’s intervention at Item 5 National, regional and international response options, including action and innovative approaches, and voluntary and legally binding governance strategies and approaches
"We believe that our mind set should be changed and together we will achieve our common goal to #BEAT the PLASTIC POLLUTION at large". Shahriar Hossain (ESDO, Bangladesh) presented his combined st [...]