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.
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UN Environment Assembly: Towards a Pollution-Free Planet
"The UN Environment Assembly, the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment, will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution. Thi [...]
Save the Date: The reality of plastic pollution and solutions to address it
"Plastic pollution is a global, and raising, concern. We have produced more plastic in the last 10 years than in the whole of the 20th century, and every piece of plastic ever produced still exists [...]
Women’s Major Group Reflections of the 3rd United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-3)
Read the Women's Major Group reflections delivered to United Nations Environment (UNEP), from its engagement at UNEA-3 with an intent to improve future UNEAs in terms of civil society participation, [...]
UNEA 3, Opening Plenary (OECPR): Helen Hakena intervention
Helen Hakena (Leitana Nehan Women Development Agency) delivered a combined statement on behalf of the Women's Major Group, at the Opening Plenary of the third Open-ended Meeting of the Committee of [...]
UNEA 3, GMGSF Session 4, Grassroots Voices from Across the world: Helda Khasmy intervention
Helda Khasmy (SERUNI) delivered a combined statement on behalf of the Women’s Major Group, at the 4th Session of the GMGSF "Grassroots voices from across the world: impacts of pollution on people's [...]