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.
Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda: Issue 17
"The publication focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda from the perspective of the Women Major Group. The article is split into three sections; 1) Introduction, 2) [...]
Intervention forests at Convention on Biological Diversity’s SBSTTA
"As a worldwide coalition of Indigenous peoples organizations and NGOs from 53 different countries we look forward to a substantive debate on forests at the upcoming Conference of the Parties". Rea [...]
Informal Consultations with Civil Society on the agenda and work of the Second Committee
Gender equality is not only a social issue - it is inextricably linked to environmental and economic issues. It is also a matter of human rights. Eleanor Blomstrom's (WEDO) delivered her intervent [...]
Sustainable Development Summit, 2015: Emilia Reyes’s Intervention
We’ve been here to monitor your pledges to achieve the Goals, We’ll remind you and support you in them all. We’ll walk the path with you, sometimes in rhyme, most times in prose, Towards that equa [...]
Trees Alone don’t Make a Forest: SDGs Deforestation
Development Goal number 15 aims at halting deforestation by 2020. It might sound ambitious - but even that, environmentalists say, is not enough. At debate is the definition of "forest." Read Isis [...]
Women’s Major Group Letter to the attention of USGs Ms Amina Mohammed and Mr Thomas Gass
"Overall concern: Although it is good that many different people have become engaged in spreading the word about the 2030 Agenda and the 17 SDGs, we call on leadership from the UN to avoid triviali [...]
Letter to To the attention of: First Vice-President Frans Timmermans European Commission
"We call for the creation of a robust, effective, participatory and transparent monitoring and accountability mechanism at EU level to guide and review implementation of the strategy, to analyse pr [...]
Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 Presents a Bold Vision for Women and Girls Advocates Gear Up for Work to Come
UNITED NATIONS—The Women’s Major Group, made up of more than 600 women’s organizations and networks from around the world, recognizes the historic agenda for global sustainable development that 19 [...]
Pinar Ilkkaracan’s (WWHR) statement on Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations: on the outcome document
"If our hard-fought stand-alone goal on gender equality, along with its targets, is not placed within the general framework of Beijing, ICPD and their reviews, it will attain a rather much limited [...]
Post-2015 Intergovernmental Negotiations: Tetet Lauron’s Intervention on the Outcome Document
"We encourage the co-facilitators to keep the level of ambition high. Keep it up! We need the political will to deliver on a truly transformative agenda and remain committed to gender equality". Te [...]