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.
APFSD: Strengthening People’s Power for Development Justice in an Unequal and Divided World
Achieving development justice starts with having a common understanding of not only the symptoms of our failed development model, but also of root structural and systemic causes of development inj [...]
Second Session of the Intergovernmental Conference on BBNJ
The second session of the BBNJ Conference will be convened from 25 March to 5 April 2019 in New York. The intergovernmental conference elaborates a legally binding instrument under UNCLOS on the co [...]
APFSD 2019: Sabrina Rose Rasu’s Intervention at the Opening Keynote Session
If you are creating a world for us that is both equal and inclusive then you cannot have it without us and without a living planet. Sabrina Rose Rasu (#Vanuatu Young Women for Change) delivered he [...]
Regional Forum on sustainable development for the UNECE region, 2019
Read the RCEM opening and close statements delivered during the Regional Forum on Sustainable Development for the UNECE Region, held in Geneve from 21 - 22 March 2019. For the opening statement dow [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Joyce Hamilton & Natasha Amdiju’s Intervention on Towards a World of Equal Opportunity: Tackling Inequality caused by Exclusion and Discrimination
Unequal structures and systemic barriers impact all of us, with the most marginalized being impacted hardest. The transformation of deeply rooted systems, including economic and political systems, [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
Women’s Major Group Response to Zero Draft at the 12th Session of open Working Group on SDG: Nebila Abdulmelik’s Intervention
Read Nebila Abdulmelik's (FEMNET) combined presentation delivered on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 12th session of the Open Working Group on SDGs. Download here. [...]
12th Session of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), NY
A delegation of the Women’s Major Group took part in the twelfth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Developments Goals, 16-20 of June at the United Nations HQ in New York. The OWG was pr [...]
12th Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from 16-20 June, 2014
This Twelfth Session of the General Assembly took place at the UN Headquarters and dealt with 17 Goals. Read the Women's Major Group Input Zero Draft. Download here [...]
12th Session of the Open Working Group (12OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Women’s Major Group Summary Draft
The Women’s Major Group welcomes the zero-draft for Sustainable Development Goals as presented by the co-chairs of the Open Working Group on June 3rd, which sets a good basis for ambitious global g [...]
SDG 12th, Response to Proposed Goal 16 Peace – Rule of Law: Pooja Parvati’s Intervention
We welcome Goal 16 and call on member states to retain it as this will prove to be one of the transformative blocks for the post-2015 agenda. We also reiterate our call for a greater emphasis on fo [...]