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: Energy, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Women’s leadership in sustainable energy production can help influence policy and regulation to protect people, communities and the planet from contamination from open pit mining, strip mining, mo [...]
HLPF 2018: Nozipho Wright’s Review on SDG 7, Energy
The WMG, commend member states and development partners for work done so far to integrate gender issues in energy policies and programmes. Though it has taken almost 20 years to reach this minima [...]
HLPF 2018: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights
Lack of access to water, sanitation and hygiene services undermines human rights and gender equality, exacerbates poverty and prevents achievement of other goals, including health, education and [...]
High-level Political Forum 2018: “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies”
This year, the HLPF on Sustainable Development with the theme: "Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies", will be held from Monday, 9 July, to Wednesday, 18 July 2018. The three- [...]
HLPF 2018: Nathalie Seguin’s Review of SDG 6, Water and Sanitation
Women’s participation in decision making at local, national and global levels is essential to adopt a new vision of water management urgently needed to achieve water related SDGs. Standards for i [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
7th Session of the Open Working Group (7OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Gender and Climate Change
Read Andrea Quesada's (Wedo) 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 the UN He [...]
7th Session of the Open Working Group (7OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Consumption and Production
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): Climate Change
Read the Presentation performance by Carmen Caprile (Reacción Climática) 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): Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management
Read Imogen Ingram's (Island Sustainability Alliance CiS Inc “ISACI”) presentation, held on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the morning session of the 7th open working group on sustainable d [...]
7th Session of the Open Working Group (7OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Disaster Risk Reduction
Read Teresita Vistro's (Asia Pacific Forum on Women,Law & Development -APWLD) power point presentation on behalf of the WMG, presented during the 7th session of the open working group on sustainab [...]