Economic justice and trade
Draft Short Report from Major Groups and Stakeholders from UNEA5
Last week, the Women's Major Group had a strong presence at the online consultations with Major Groups and other Stakeholders and the bureau of Member States for UNEA 5. Representing WMG, Isis Alvarez [...]
WMG signs on to letter in support of Argentina’s debt restructuring
The Women's Major Group signed on to a letter, by the global debt justice movement, to call for the Paris Club Secretariat and Paris Club Member States' support for Argentina’s proposal regarding the [...]
UNEA 4: WMG Side Event on Your Trash My Cash
Join us at the skill share session Your Trash My Cash. The session will reflect on skills and good practices for sustainable consumption, Production in Energy, Water, Chemicals & Waste from di [...]
Comments on Draft Ministerial Declaration of the 2019 United Nations Environment Assembly
The WMG is concerned about the fact that this language proposed is going back 25 years in time since there is already a 2020 target to phase out harmful toxic chemicals in consumer products under [...]
HLPF 2018: Sustainable Consumption and Production, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Women are exposed are highly vulnerable to hazardous chemicals through products they consume and workplace contamination, which is contributing to the increase of diseases such as breast cancer a [...]
HLPF 2017: Mari-Claire Price QA Response on Leveraging interlinkages for effective implementation of SDGs
"We are expecting a strong ministerial declaration coming out of this meeting, that tackles these issues, as well as strong language on Means of Implementation AND on Women Human Rights! We will [...]
HLPF 2017: Alla Kuvatowa’s QA Response on Advancing science, technology and innovation for SDGs
"Technology is crucial to accelerate the implementation of the sustainable development goals and consequently the 2030 Agenda, but we also want to stress the importance of respecting traditional o [...]
HLPF 2017: Eni Lestari’s QA Response on “Investing in and financing for SDGs”
"Women’s rights and means of implementations are indivisible and nonexchangeable. Both are mandatory to achieve the Agenda 2030 and sustainable development". Eni Lestari (International Migrants Al [...]
HLPF 2017: Nalini Singh’s remarks as an official speaker at the “Session on Review of SDG 5”
"Systemic and Structural Barriers to Achieving Gender Equality which perpetuate and entrench discrimination against women include: 1. Patriarchy and the rise of authoritarian governance; 2. Milita [...]
HLPF 2017: Sehnaz Bahçeci’s Intervention as an official speaker on “Eradicating Poverty and Promoting Prosperity in a Changing World”
“obscene concentration of wealth” and its structural and systematic drivers is causing exactly the poverty we are trying to eradicate with Agenda 2030, and with women and girls disproportionately [...]