Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals which all countries have committed to implement in an integrated and inclusive manner. The 2030 Agenda aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (SDG 5) through specific targets on eliminating gender based elimination, violence, harmful practices, and on ensuring that women and girls’ rights in all areas are upheld.
The 2030 Agenda recognizes the important role of civil society including Major Groups such as the Women’s Major Group. The Women’s Major Group for the 2030 Agenda, facilitates the participation of women’s rights and feminist organizations and movements in the policy process, linking the global to the national process, as well as ensuring coherent with the other UN women’s rights and other related processes. The Women’s Major Group is currently facilitated by 8 elected Organizing Partners (OPs).
The Women’s Major Group 2030, works through active working groups to provide input to the policy processes at all levels, and to ensure coherence and cooperate with the Women’s constituencies in other policy processes.
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SDG 5: Intervention by APRCEM, supported by Women’s Major Group
High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, session on SDG 5 Cielito Perez, CWR, Philippines 15 July 2025, New York Thank you, Chair. I deliver this statement on behalf of APRCEM. SDG 5 or [...]
SDG3 – lead discussant intervention by APRCEM, supported by Women’s Major Group
Photo credit: IISD ENB - Kiara Worth APRCEM Lead Discussant in SDG 3 Shobha Shukla, CNS, India Thanks for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of Asia Pacific Regional Civil Society Engageme [...]
SDG 5: Lead discussant intervention at HLPF
2025 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development and High-Level Segment of ECOSOC Tuesday 15 July 2025: (CR 4) 10 AM – 1 PM Statement by Lead Discussant - Fer Ghanaa Ansari during the sessio [...]
Opening statement at HLPF 2025
High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development New York, 14 July Session: Unlocking means of implementation: Mobilizing financing and STI for the SDGs My name is Veronica Brown and I deliver [...]
Women’s Major Group Position Paper 2025
Only five years remain to fulfil the promises of the 2030 Agenda—but instead of accelerating progress, we are witnessing an alarming rollback. Governments, corporations, and anti-rights actors are not [...]
WMG Highlights from SDG Summit Week 2023
Women’s Major Group Statement on the High-Level Week, 2023 View from the Top: Summits Reveal Abysmal Progress, Gaping Lack of Ambition: The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) w [...]
Women’s Major Group Statement on the High-Level Week, 2023
Women’s Major Group Statement on the High-Level Week, 2023 View from the Top: Summits Reveal Abysmal Progress, Gaping Lack of Ambition The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) wa [...]
Halfway to the Sustainable Development Goals: ‘We Are Still Far From Achieving Them,’ Say Feminists
The United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) convened this year from July 10-19 to assess progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the halfway point b [...]
WMG Highlights from HLPF 2023!
In solidarity with feminists, in all their diversity, who were missing in this conversation. WMG Highlights from HLPF 2023! HLPF 2023 has been an amazing two weeks with our members and allies in New Y [...]
HLPF 2023 Interventions by WMG Members
In this year’s High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF), feminists of Women’s Major Group came together to draft interventions, which we were able to deliver in official thematic [...]