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.
WMG at the 2022 ECOSOC Partnership Forum
The 2022 ECOSOC Partnership Forum took place in a hybrid format on the 2nd of February on “Building back better from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while advancing the full implementation of the 2 [...]
Until All of Us Are Free: WMG’s Intersectional Feminist Fishbowl Series
In the months of September - December 2021, the Women's Major Group held an important series “Until All of Us Are Free:" An Intersectional Feminist Fishbowl Series. In a context of rising anti-rights [...]
WMG & CSOs from around the world reject the forthcoming G7/G20/OECD tax deal
The “Deal Of The Rich” Will Not Benefit Developing Countries The Women's Major Group joined 250+ civil society organizations in endorsing the Global Alliance for Tax Justice's (GATJ) statement rejecti [...]
WMG Endorses Joint Civil Society Statement on Abortion ahead of HRC 28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MBaiUhtzNg The WMG has joined over 650 organizations and individuals in endorsing a joint civil society statement on abortion rights, which was then delivered on Oct [...]
Global People’s Assembly 2021
From September 21-23, the Women's Major Group co-organized the 2021 virtual Global People's Assembly (GPA) along with GCAP and over 30 regional and global networks. The GPA occurred in parallel to the [...]
WMG RESOURCES & POLICY STATEMENTS
WMG @ UNEA delivers statement at Ministerial Conference on Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution
Giulia Carlini of CIEL, delivers the WMG @ UNEA statement at the Ministerial Conference on Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution, on September 2nd, 2021. The powerful feminist statement is as follows: " [...]
WMG Position Paper for HLPF 2021
The Women's Major Group is proud to launch our Position Paper for the 2021 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF). Gathering the intersectional analyses of feminists worldwide, our position paper reviews s [...]
WMG SDGs & UN Human Rights Mechanisms from the Feminist Perspective Webinar and Infographic Series
As the WMG, we created the series “SDGs & UN Human Rights mechanisms from a feminist perspective” to: highlight the interplay between Agenda 2030 and the human rights (HR) mechanisms of the United [...]
WMG @ UNEA delivers powerful statement at Leadership Dialogue of UNEA 5.1.
Carmen Capriles, on behalf of the members of the WMG @ UNEA, has delivered a powerful statement during the Leaders Dialogue of UNEA 5.1. on 23 February 2021. WMG @ UNEA focused on rights-holders prior [...]
WMG HLPF Review Position Paper
We are deeply concerned that even before the COVID-19 crisis, after five years of SDGs implementation, the world is not on track in achieving the goals nor has any country fully achieved gender [...]