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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Towards Building Sustainable Statistical Capacity for the Implementation and Review of the Agenda 2030 and the SDGs
"The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of China are jointly organizing a Seminar on Statistical Training from 13 to 15 September 2017 in Beijing, Chi [...]
UNEA-3: WMG Input to the Report “Towards a Pollution Free Planet”
We feel the report lacks a deeper analysis of the feminization of pollution, and how it impacts differently on poor and indigenous peoples. For instance, worldwide figures from women’s illnesses and [...]
India VNR 2017 Parallel Report: Youth People and Women
Acknowledging that the SDGs are the young people’s agenda, spaces should be created for young people to meaningfully engage in its implementation, monitoring, and evaluation at all levels—from the [...]
Women to UN Sec-Gen: Do not tolerate pro-nuclear lobbying!
"Hardly 3 weeks have gone by since the signing of the historic ban on nuclear weapons, and already the biggest exhibition space in the corridors of the HLPF have been occupied by pro-nuclear energy [...]
