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: Ground Level Peoples’ Forum (GLPF)
Don't miss this opportunity to envision the world we want with local and international grassroots activists! Join us at the Ground Level Peoples' Forum (GLPF): a counter-space to the United Nations [...]
HLPF 2019: Tetet Lauron’s Intervention on STI Discussion
We need regulatory frameworks for risky climate technologies, including such as geoengineering. We need full transparency on future costs and free and prior informed consent of impacted commun [...]
HLPF 2019: Ifáṣínà Efunyemi’s Intervention on Report of STI
We need to ensure that women throughout all life stages, and in all regions, including in rural and remote areas, can benefit and obtain access from STI. Ifáṣínà Efunyemi (Belize) delivered a comb [...]
Tunisia VNR 2019 Parallel Report: Agenda 2030
La Présentation du VNR à HLPF avec des données concises et une vision très claire et performante pour les 11 ans restants devrait être une occasion pour les institutions internationales de propose [...]
HLPF 2019: Chantal Umuhoza’s Intervention on Empowering People and Ensuring Inclusiveness and Equality – Perspectives of Society
"Empowering women and girls economically, socially, politically need to address structural and systemic barriers that stem from patriarchal and neoliberal systems that inhibit power gender inequal [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
Post- 2015 intergovernmental negotiations (sustainable development goals and targets): Nozipho Wright’s intervention
Read Nozipho Wright's (Botswana) intervention on behalf of the Women’s Major Group on developing indicators. Download here [...]
Indicators Messaging with imput from Women’s Major Group
The Women’s Major Group believes this is the start of a long-term process to define an indicator framework that is ambitious, feasible and that measures what we need to count in order to have the i [...]
Women’s Groups Urge UK Not to Roll Back Progress on Development Goals
Women’s human rights groups at the UN this week have criticized the continued lack of support by the UK government for the proposed sustainable development goals (SDGs) and targets that were create [...]
Statement on the Political Declaration on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women
Twenty years after the adoption of Beijing, this version of the Political Declaration is not what women need. There has been tremendous progress toward gender equality and the realization of the [...]
Advocating in 2015 for a Sustainable, Gender Just and Human Rights based Development Framework for the next Decades
States have the duty to mobilize the maximum available resources, including through combating tax evasion and avoidance, and expand the tax base in a progressive way Read Nicole Bidegain's (DAWN) s [...]