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 2018: Shaila Shahid as Lead Discussant, SDG 11, Cities
Ensuring girls’ and women’s participation and safety in cities requires a gender transformative approach to achieve systemic change. It includes empowering women and girls, designing future cities [...]
HLPF 2018: Isis Alvarez’s Intervention on Perspectives of LDCs, LLDCs and MICs
Women’s equal participation and leadership in decisions that affect them and their communities is a prerequisite for building resilient societies. Isis Alvarez (GFC, Colombia) delivered her com [...]
Mapping the gap: barriers and opportunities for CS in VNRs
Save the Date! The Women's Major Group invites you to join the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) at the "Mapping the gap: barriers and opportunities for CS in VNRs" [...]
HLPF 2018: Amasai Jeke’s Intervenion on Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies: SIDS perspective
"There is no time to exclude any community, including women of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, our islands are sinking we are literally drowning. Species of all kinds, [...]
HLPF 2018: Cities, Human Settlements, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Human rights obligations, such as under the Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) including its general recommendations, must be met at all levels of governmen [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
7th Session of the Open Working Group (7OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The seventh session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals took place at the UN headquarters in New York, from 6-10 January, and dealt with: Sustainable cities and human settlemen [...]
7th Session of the Open Working Group (7OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Read Emilia Reyes’s (Equidad, Mexico) combined position paper presented on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 7th session of the open working group on sustainable development goals, held at [...]
7th Session of the Open Working Group (7OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Chemicals
Read Yuyun Ismawati's (Global Focal Point) combined position paper presented on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 7th session of the open working group on sustainable development goals hel [...]
7th Session of the Open Working Group (7OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Climate Change
Read Carmen Capriles's (Red Climatica, Bolivia) combined position paper presented on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 7th session of the open working group on sustainable development goal [...]
7th Session of the Open Working Group (7OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Transport
Read Bright Oywaya's (Association of the Physically Disabled, Kenya) combined position paper presented on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 7th session of the open working group on sustain [...]