ABOUT US
The Women’s Major Group was created at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where governments recognized Women as one of the nine important groups in society for achieving sustainable development. The WMG is an official participant in the United Nations processes on Sustainable Development. Other processes use the major group or similar systems, with the WMG active in the processes of the United Nations Environment Program since 1996.
WMG CSW65 Parallel Event
WMG was delighted to contribute to the discussions at the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, through its parallel event "5 years of SDGs & Feminist Paths to Just Recovery," whi [...]
Information on 2021 UN Regional Sustainable Development Forums
HLPF Timeline 2021 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2021#preparation Official outcome reports from the Regional Sustainable Development Forums have been released: (a) Africa region, [...]
WMG @ UNEA delivers powerful statement at Leadership Dialogue of UNEA 5.1.
Carmen Capriles, on behalf of the members of the WMG @ UNEA, has delivered a powerful statement during the Leaders Dialogue of UNEA 5.1. on 23 February 2021. WMG @ UNEA focused on rights-holders prior [...]
WMG HLPF Review Position Paper
We are deeply concerned that even before the COVID-19 crisis, after five years of SDGs implementation, the world is not on track in achieving the goals nor has any country fully achieved gender [...]
Another World is Possible: A Feminist Monitoring & Advocacy Toolkit for Our Feminist Future
A collective of feminists, with the Women's Major Group among them, advocating for a feminist response to COVID is excited to share a new toolkit titled, “Another World is Possible: A Feminist [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
Collective Appeal (Notice of Objection) against FLOW 2 Procedures by unsuccessful qualifying applicants
“Further to our letter of 12 December 2015 signed by over 100 women’s organisations raising concerns about FLOW 2 outcomes, we hereby lodge a collective appeal against the procedures that led to onl [...]
Aplly for: Civil society speaker for Paris Climate Change Agreement Signing Ceremony
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited all world leaders to a signing ceremony on 22 April for the historic climate agreement that was reached in Paris in December last year. The [...]
Women’s Movement’s Engagement in the SDGs: Lessons Learned from the Women’s Major Group
"The Women's Major Group's role is to assure effective public participation of women's non-government groups in the United Nations (UN) policy processes on Sustainable Development, the post-2015 d [...]
The second Open-Ended Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-2)
Members of the Women’s Major Group presented their key issues on COP21 Paris Agreement at UNEP OECPR 2 meeting in Nairobi. Isis Alvarez (Global Forest Coalition and WMG Organizing Partner) presente [...]
Call for a Feminist UN Secretary General – sign on
The Women's Major Group is launching the call below and would like to invite widespread participation. Please share widely with your networks. Please access the Google Form to add your organization [...]