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.
ECERFSD 2019: Ivana Savic & Tatjana Binggeli’s intervention on Bridging the Gap: Achieving Greater Income and Economic Equality
The transformation of deeply rooted systems, including economic and political systems, is required to leave no one behind as they are often based on unequal distributions of wealth and decision-ma [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Maciej Kucharczyk’s Intervention on The Future of Work: Productive Employment and Decent Work for All
Reduction of working time is worth considering as the recent research shows that it could decrease unemployment and give people a chance to develop new skills, talents and knowledge, while creatin [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Nick Meynen’s Intervention on The Growth We Want: Solutions for Sustained, Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth
Dethrone King GDP and crown Queen WELL-BEING Nick Meynen (European Environmental Bureau) spoke on behalf of the Regional Civil Society Engagement Mechanism, on The Growth We Want: Solutions for Su [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Thorkild Olesen’s Intervention on The Power of Knowledge for Change: Education and Learning as Drivers of Sustainable Development
SDG 4.7 is crucial: education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, education for global citizens [...]
ECERFSD 2019: Serafine Duss & Andreas Berglöf’s Intervention on Learning without Limits: Lifelong Learning and Inclusive Education
In times of growing opposition to civil society and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), it is imperative that governments support these basic rights when they are being questioned. W [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
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 [...]
Co-Chair’s meeting: Protect and Restore Terrestrial Ecosystems and halt all Biodiversity Loss
We would like to see much more close linkages to poverty goal. This is because healthy ecosystems are the basis for people’s lives, particularly those living in poverty, providing essential goods a [...]
Open Letter to the Co-chairs and Member States from Major Groups and Stakeholders
We call into mind the compromise that co-chairs had made, to have ‘informal informals’ in the week preceding the open working group meeting. We, therefore, object that the informals were resumed du [...]
Feminist Declaration Post 2015
We demand a paradigm transformation from the current development neoliberal economic model, which prioritizes profit over people, and exacerbates inequalities, war and conflict, militarism, patriar [...]
Statement of the Commission on the Status of the Women (CSW 58)
we call on our governments to deliver an outcome document that will reflect rights, development, empowerment and future aspirations of women and girls Read the combined Statement for CSW58 delivere [...]