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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.
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women: CSW63
"The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019. The main theme is Social protection system [...]
UNEA 4: WMG Side Event on Your Trash My Cash
Join us at the skill share session Your Trash My Cash. The session will reflect on skills and good practices for sustainable consumption, Production in Energy, Water, Chemicals & Waste from di [...]
Fourth Session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4)
This year the 4th Meeting of the UN Environment Assembly has as the main theme ‘Innovative Solutions for Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Consumption and Production,’ and it will address the [...]
Comments on Draft Ministerial Declaration of the 2019 United Nations Environment Assembly
The WMG is concerned about the fact that this language proposed is going back 25 years in time since there is already a 2020 target to phase out harmful toxic chemicals in consumer products under [...]
Global Pact for the Environment Meeting: Janice Cox’s Intervention
We would like this to include the delineation of updated and enhanced environmental principles. Read Janice Cox's (World Animal Net) intervention on Draft NGO Comments on Conclusions, on behalf [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
11th Session of Open Working Group (11OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Focus Area 6 “Water and Sanitation”
Read Meera Karunananthan's (Council of Canadians) combined statement presented on behalf of the Women's Major Group during the last 11th Session of Open Working Group on Sustainable Developments Goals [...]
11th Session of Open Working Group (11OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Focus Area 1″Poverty Eradication, Building Shared Prosperity and Promoting Equality”
Read Pooja Parvati’s ( Wada Na Todo Abhiyan) combined statement presented on behalf of Women Major Group during the last 11th Session of Open Working Group […] [...]
11th Session of the Open Working Group (11OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals
This eleventh session was held at the UN Headquarter from 5-9 May 2014, and dealt with sixteen clusters: Poverty eradication, building shared prosperity and promoting equality; Sustainable agricult [...]
10th Session of the Open Working Group (10OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals
This session took place at the UN Headquarter from 31 March – 4 April, NY, was divided in eight clusters areas, which dealt with issues on: poverty eradication and equality promotion; gender [...]
10th Open Working Group (10 OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs): Focus Area 19 “Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment”
Read Emilia Reyes's (Equidad de Genero, Mexico) combined statement presented on behalf of the Women's Major Group. Download here. [...]