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 joins 500+ organizations to demand “Cancel the Debt”
WMG joins 500+ organizations on a call for immediate debt cancellation to help lower-income countries fight Covid-19. "We demand for much more than "debt'relief," we demand debt justice." The full sta [...]
WMG joins 500+ organizations on a letter to IMF to stop austerity measures
WMG joined 500+ organizations in a letter to the International Monetary Fund, "warning that its support programs, which have had to be ramped up to cope with COVID-19, were condemning many countries t [...]
Sascha Gabizon spoke at UNGA Beijing+25 Special Session
Sascha Gabizon, executive director of Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF) and a previous organizing partner of WMG, delivered a very strong speech on behalf of civil society, at the High-level Me [...]
HLPF 2020 Interventions by WMG members
In this year's virtual High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development (HLPF), feminists of Women's Major Group came together to draft interventions, 12 of which we were able to deliver in offi [...]
Intervention in WSSCC/OHCHR/WaterAid Roundtable July 23
WMG member Shaila Shahid, Senior Advisor of Climate Change, DRR, and Gender at the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), gave an intervention on most vulnerable groups livi [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda: Issue 17
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Intervention forests at Convention on Biological Diversity’s SBSTTA
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Informal Consultations with Civil Society on the agenda and work of the Second Committee
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Sustainable Development Summit, 2015: Emilia Reyes’s Intervention
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Trees Alone don’t Make a Forest: SDGs Deforestation
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