WMG Member’s Shadow Reports
Check out our member’s alternative/shadow reports in response to Voluntary National Reviews (VNR). Unless otherwise stated, the shadow reports are the sole product of the authoring member or organization. The WMG does, however, support the valuable advocacy and mobilizing work done by the members on the local, national and regional level through the process of holding their governments accountable.
Emerging Technologies: Sustainability, Gender and the Need for Technology Assessment and Monitoring
Read the combined position paper from Neth Dañ; Kathy Jo Wetter (ETC Group, Philippines, USA) on behalf of the Women’s Major Group. […] [...]
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) & Gender targets for the post 2015 development agenda
Read the combined position paper from Claudia Wendland; Margriet Samwel; Anke Stock - Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and Anara Choitonbaeva - Kyrgyz Alliance for Water and Sanitation (KAWS [...]
Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases
Read the combined position paper from Alexandra Caterbow ( WECF – Women in Europe for a Common Future) and Genon Jensen (HEAL Health Environment Alliance on Chronic, Non-Communicable Diseases and Chem [...]
Immediate action to stop mercury pollution in ASGM, Minamata Convention on Mercury, Kumamoto, Japan, October 10, 2013
Five women ministers of environment from the South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya spoke at high level event on “Women and Mercury in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) – heal [...]
Women’s Major Group Chemicals intervention at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Open Ended CPR, Nairobi
The Women's Major Group participated in the UNEP Open Ended CPR, on 25th of March, preparing for the upcoming first-ever United Nations Environment Assembly (June). The Women MG delegation prepared in [...]
Women Major Group and Recommendations for the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development
Women Major Group members have been very active in supporting the development of the civil society recommendations for the Asia-Pacif Forum on Sustainable Development. Download recommendations here [...]
Chair’s summary of the ICESDF Helsinki/Espoo event on Financing for Sustainable Development
DAWN on behalf of WMG, participated in the stakeholder dialogue of the Helsinki meeting of the committee on Financing for Sustainable Development. The concerns of civil society are partly reflected [...]
Congratulations to Silvia Ribeiro
Silvia Ribeiro (ETCgroup) spoke as Women's representative on the topic of Gender Equality and Women Rights in South-South Cooperation at the High Level Event organised by the President of the General [...]
11th Session of Open Working Group (11OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Recommendations on Health
Read the Major Group's combined policy statement presented during the 11th session of OWG on SDGs. Download here. [...]
11th Session of Open Working Group (11OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Focus Area 16 “Peaceful and Inclusive Societies, Rule of Law and Capable Institutions”
Read Emilia Reyes's (Equidad de Género, Mexico) combined statement presented on behalf of Women Major Group during the last 11th Session of Open Working Group on Sustainable Developments Goals held at [...]