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.
Introduction to Post2015, Rio+20, Sustainable Development Goals and the role of women’s organisations
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Fisheries and Gender Equality
Read Vivienne Solis Rivera’s (Coope Soli Dar R.L., Costa Rica) position paper on behalf of the Women’s Major Group on fisheries and gender equality. […] [...]
United Nations Environment Assembly of UNEP ( UNEA) and the Global Major Groups and Stakeholders Forum.
The Women's Major Group will have a delegation at the very special event in June 2014: a Global Symposium on Environmental Rule of Law during the first ever meeting of the United Nations Environment A [...]
Women Major Group and Recommendations for the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development
Women Major Group members have been very active in supporting the development of the civil society recommendations for the Asia-Pacif Forum on Sustainable Development. Download recommendations here [...]
Women Major Group speaker Anita Gurumurthy’s presentation at the High Level Event of the President of the General Assembly on 22 of May at the UN HQ in New York.
"How can all forms of cooperation, namely North-South, South-South and Triangular Cooperation, as well as ICT for development, be utilized to achieve effective means of implementation for the Post-201 [...]
