Processes
8 Nov Deadline for Call for Awards by our colleagues from Women Gender Constituency at the Climate Negotiations
We invite you to participate in the ‘Gender Just Climate Solutions Awards‘ initiative for the upcoming UN climate negotiations (COP21) in Paris! The Women and Gender Constituency of UNFCCC and othe [...]
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 [...]
Global Goals on Women’s Right Fall Far Short of Promises Made 20 Years Ago
"The Beijing agreement is not a perfect roadmap for the realisation of gender equality and women’s rights – like the SDGs, it doesn’t go far enough in protecting women’s sexual and reproductive he [...]
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 [...]
UNEP’s Major Groups & Stakeholders Branch: election result
Recently, UNEP's Major Groups & Stakeholders Branch called for elections in order to have new co-facilitators for the Major Groups to UNEP. The Women's Major Group is happy to announce that afte [...]
A Universal Agenda? Echoes of Colonial Power Dominate Post 2015 negotiations
"In the final week of intergovernmental negotiations taking place in New York, civil society, from both the Global North and Global South, remain concerned about the EU’s continued ‘business as usu [...]
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 [...]
Women’s Major Group Final Document on Climate Justice: The WMG Welcomes the Stand-alone Climate Change Goal
"Sustainable development is not possible without substantively and comprehensively addressing climate change, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems, gender equality, human rights, and poverty eradica [...]