Policy Statements
Policy statement developed by Women’s Major Group members present policy priorities from a women’s rights and gender quality perspective on all thematic areas relating to Sustainable Development, Post2030 and Environmental matters.
Major Groups and Stakeholders call on Ministers at the 1st United Nations Environment Assembly for ambitious outcomes
We are fully committed to making UNEA an historic opportunity for the international community to come and work together to respond with vision and determination to the hopes and aspirations of hu [...]
UN Environment Assembly: Sascha Gabizon’s Intervention
Read Sascha Gabizon's (WECF) combined presentation delivered on behalf of the WMG on priorities for Sustainable Development Goals at WMG side event during the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), held [...]
Pacific Partnerships to Strengthen Gender, Climate Change Response and Sustainable Development
we call for an inter-linkage approach that analyses the political, physical, ecological, economic, and social dimensions of these overlapping challenges through one holistic frame. The bringing tog [...]
Pacific Partnerships to Strengthen Gender, Climate Change Response and Sustainable Development
We remind the Pacific States of their obligations and accountability to translate gender equality and human rights commitments into legislation, policy and budget allocations, and to make these nor [...]
Pacific Partnerships to Advance Gender, Climate Change Response and Sustainable Development
We commend our leaders for the strong positions taken in the Majuro Declaration on Climate Leadership (2013) and urge immediate national implementation. We also reaffirm the existing Pacific State [...]
Women’s Major Group Response to Zero Draft at the 12th Session of open Working Group on SDG: Nebila Abdulmelik’s Intervention
Read Nebila Abdulmelik's (FEMNET) combined presentation delivered on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 12th session of the Open Working Group on SDGs. Download here. [...]
12th Session of the Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), NY
A delegation of the Women’s Major Group took part in the twelfth session of the Open Working Group on Sustainable Developments Goals, 16-20 of June at the United Nations HQ in New York. The OWG was pr [...]
12th Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), from 16-20 June, 2014
This Twelfth Session of the General Assembly took place at the UN Headquarters and dealt with 17 Goals. Read the Women's Major Group Input Zero Draft. Download here [...]
12th Session of the Open Working Group (12OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Women’s Major Group Summary Draft
The Women’s Major Group welcomes the zero-draft for Sustainable Development Goals as presented by the co-chairs of the Open Working Group on June 3rd, which sets a good basis for ambitious global g [...]
SDG 12th, Response to Proposed Goal 16 Peace – Rule of Law: Pooja Parvati’s Intervention
We welcome Goal 16 and call on member states to retain it as this will prove to be one of the transformative blocks for the post-2015 agenda. We also reiterate our call for a greater emphasis on fo [...]