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
Women’s Movement’s Engagement in the SDGs: Lessons Learned from the Women’s Major Group
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The second Open-Ended Meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-2)
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Call for a Feminist UN Secretary General – sign on
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Women’s Major Group: Perspectives Main Issue 17
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Press released Agenda 2030: unpacking gender and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
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