04.11.24
Our Executive Director Afaf Abounouadar was in Geneva recently for the commemoration of the International Day of Care and Support organised by UN Women, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and [...]
Read more28.10.24
This International Day of Care and Support, we are calling for change. [...]
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UN Geneva - As the 57th session of the Human Rights Council (9 September-11 October) wraps up, we take a look back at our contributions in bringing the perspective of mothers to multiple discussions t [...]
Read more24.09.24
MMM in France - a look back at our high level dinner hosted at the Versailles Town Hall near Paris. [...]
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UN New York, Summit of the Future - At an event on Caring Territories for the Future: Feminist Municipalism for Equality, Climate Action, Democracy and Peace, MMM highlighted the many ways in which lo [...]
Read more29.07.24
UN New York - Our virtual HLPF side-event brought together experts to shed light on how the various global crises we face (in particular climate change and other environmental crises, the debt crisis, [...]
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UN New York - Participating in the meeting of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on care and support systems, MMM reaffirmed the principle of co-responsibility, which should underpin all nati [...]
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UN Geneva - As the 56th session of the Human Rights Council wraps up, we take a look back at our contributions to different discussions. Our oral statements all denounced the inadequacy and failure of [...]
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UN New York / HLPF - Register now to join us online at this year’s High Level Political Forum side-event. [...]
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UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - MMM was invited to contribute to a side-event organised by Widows Rights International to discuss the unique challenges faced by widows who are mothers, while continu [...]
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Wednesday 28 January 2026 | 15:15 – 17:30 GMT London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) – Live broadcast #MaternalWellbeingLSE Maternal mental health is one of the most pressing - and most overlo
09.01.26
UN New York – Join us online on 5th February for an official side-event to the 64th UN Commission on Social Development, which will focus on how harnessing the skills developed through the unpaid work of care
08.01.26
UN New York – In a written Statement submitted ahead of the 64th UN Commission on Social Development, Make Mothers Matter highlights a crucial yet still largely overlooked dimension of social development and
15.12.25
UNESCO, Paris – On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the 1960 Convention against Discrimination in Education, UNESCO brought together the global community at an International Symposium on the Future of
09.12.25
MMM together with its partners of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, welcomes the recent vote by the European Parliament’s EMPL Committee, which firmly supports substantial and dedicated funding for t
28.11.25
Across Europe, mothers carry out vast amounts of unpaid care work that keeps families and societies functioning—yet much of this labour remains largely invisible in EU policy. A new study shared with Make Mot