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.
HLPF 2017: Eni Lestari’s QA Response on “Investing in and financing for SDGs”
"Women’s rights and means of implementations are indivisible and nonexchangeable. Both are mandatory to achieve the Agenda 2030 and sustainable development". Eni Lestari (International Migrants Al [...]
HLPF 2017: Women’s Major Group Position Paper
"Solutions by, with and for women as actors in sustainable development must be elevated to guide coherence in addressing multiple SDGs, alongside systemic barriers". Download the Women's Major G [...]
ECE RFSD 2017: Nurgul Dzhanaeva’s Intervention at the Policy Segment Session
"We call for action to strengthen an enabling environment and overcome systemic obstacles for meaningful engagement of civil society and to ensure obligations to rights holders in the SDGs. We den [...]
Why the Women’s Major Group is disappointed with a man as UN SG again
Statement by members of the Women’s Major Group on the appointment of the new Secretary General of the United Nations: The Women’s Major Group of the UN Agenda-2030 process (WMG), has received the [...]
HLPF 2016: WMG’s Brief on Systemic Barriers to Achieving Sustainable Development
"Agenda2030 cannot be achieved unless the systems and structures that impede sustainable and equitable development are dismantled. The HLPF and regional follow-up processes should address at least [...]
HLPF 2016: WMG’s Brief on Means of Implementation
"Securing the Means of Implementation is at the heart of Agenda2030, including achieving women’s human rights. There is an alarming absence of focus on MOI and associated systemic issues in both th [...]
6th OWG: WMG Members’ Intervention on Technology Divides
Neth Daño, Kathy Jo Wetter and Silvia Ribeiro (ETC Group) delivered their statement on behalf of the Women's Major Group, during the 6th session of the Open Working Group, on "science, Technology an [...]
HLPF 2016: Women’s Major Group Reaction to the HLPF Zero Draft
The Women’s Major Group welcomes the Co-facilitators’ draft resolution of May 6th, towards the processes that will be carried out, so that the HLPF becomes the central body to oversee the implemen [...]
Call for a Feminist UN Secretary-General in 2016
It’s time for change… We believe that a woman Secretary-General must lead the United Nations. After the appointment of eight male Secretaries-General, a female Secretary-General is urgently needed [...]
Collective Appeal (Notice of Objection) against FLOW 2 Procedures by unsuccessful qualifying applicants
“Further to our letter of 12 December 2015 signed by over 100 women’s organisations raising concerns about FLOW 2 outcomes, we hereby lodge a collective appeal against the procedures that led to onl [...]