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 Climate Change Conference: COP 23, Bonn
"The conference, officially referred as COP 23/ CMP 13/ CMA 1-2, will take place from 6-17 Nov 2017 in Bonn, Germany, hosted by the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFC [...]
Informal Feedback Meeting on the 2017 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development
Save the Date! The SDG Lab invites you all to the Informal Feedback Meeting on the 2017 HLPF as an informal space for member states and other interested stakeholders to engage further on the salient [...]
UNEA: Report on Presentation of the WMG at UNEP CPR, intervention by Asha Abdulrahman
"While noting that the environmental pillar of sustainable development is a key driver for human livelihoods and well-being, different forms of pollution pose a grave threat to human health, espec [...]
Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights delivered by Karima Bennoune to the UN General Assembly
"We face a multidirectional global avalanche of misogyny, to which we must have an urgent global feminist riposte". Karima Bennoune, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, delivered [...]
UNEA3: WMG Input to Preliminary Draft “Towards a Pollution-Free Planet”
"The WMG appreciates the President of UNEA and member states for the progress so far on the Preliminary Draft of the Ministerial Declaration released on 21st September 2017. We, however, propose se [...]