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.
HLPF 2019: Latin America and the Caribbean Civil Society Declaration
"The slogan "DO NOT LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND" must obligatorily include migrants of all ethnic and age groups, as well as Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Trans and Intersex from Latin America and the Caribbe [...]
HLPF 2019: Prameswari Puspa Dewi’s Intervention on Indonesia, Guatemala and Turkey VNR Report
"What is planned to eliminate this de facto context and ensure progress on all SDGs from a gender equality and human rights perspective? What concrete actions, with assigned resources, transparent [...]
South Africa VNR 2019 Parallel Report: Ensuring an Inclusive Reporting Process for HLPF 2019
"The intersectionality that increases people’s vulnerability must be taken account, and the different stressors aggravating already at-risk groups. A human rights perspective and understanding tha [...]
HLPF 2019: Marcela Ballara’s Intervention on VNR for Azerbaijan, Chile, Philippines and Sierra Leone
Governments must guarantee the participation of civil society and other social actors in the elaboration of the national voluntary reviews and the 2030 monitoring process. There are some Sustainab [...]
HLPF 2019: Sylvie Ndongmo’s Intervention on Are We on Track for Mobilizing the Trillions we Need for the SDGs?
Today, there is no country in the world that is free from conflict, because violence against women and girls exists everywhere. Financing for development requires changing the rules of the game fo [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
Joint Session between FfD and Post-2015 Processes: Tessa Khan’s Intervention
It is necessary to fulfill governments obligations under international law, in which their duties to fulfill human rights without discrimination prevail. Read Tessa Khan's (APWLD) combined interven [...]
WMG Position on the Post-2015 Development Agenda April Intergovernmental Negotiations on MoI and Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
The Women’s Major Group (WMG) released four pagers on various aspects pertaining to the Post-2015 Development Agenda April Intergovernmental Negotiations on MOI and Global Partnership for Sus [...]
Side Event – Rethinking Technology in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: technology assessment, facilitation mechanism and non-financial MOI
The aspirations expressed at Rio+20 to put in place a global mechanism that will promote the development, transfer, and deployment of technologies that respond to the needs of developing countries [...]
Interactive Dialogue with Major Groups and other Stakeholders: MariaTheresa Nera-Lauron’s Intervention
Civil society can play a powerful role in monitoring the SDGs including through institutionalized participation at all levels, connecting local realities to global policy debates, and in building [...]
Post- 2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations (sustainable development goals and targets): Shanta Laxmi Shrestha’s intervention
As we all know, the very thrust of the framework is to deliver transformative change. If indicators are not transformative enough, the change we aspire for cannot be achieved. Read Shanta Laxmi Shre [...]