From left to right: Richard Jolly, executive director of UNICEF; Bella Abzug, American feminist founder of the Women's Environment and Development Organization – WEDO; Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - ECO-92

The Congress was organized by the American feminist organization Women's Environment and Development Organization - WEDO, and was part of the preliminary meetings for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - ECO-92. Attended by about 500 participants from over eighty countries, the Congress approved the ‘Women's Action Agenda 21 for a Healthy Planet’.