On the stage: Bella Abzug, american feminist founder of the Women's Environment and Development Organization - WEDO (right).

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’.