03.04.23
UN New York - With the upcoming 56th UN Commission on Population Development (CPopD56), we are publishing the written statement we submitted ahead of this session, which will focus on Population, educ [...]
Read more23.03.23
UN New York - On the occasion of the World Water Day and the UN Water Conference, MMM highlights the impact of the lack of access to safe and clean water on women's unpaid care work. This is a key bar [...]
Read more19.03.23
UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - Framing Care as a Human Right at the UN level - right to care, right to be cared for, right to self-care - would unequivocally put obligations on all governments to p [...]
Read more10.03.23
UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - The dialog following the presentation of the report Women, girls and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was the opportunity for MMM to reaffirm [...]
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UN New York, CSW67 - Digital technologies, which is the priority theme of the upcoming Commission on the Status of Women, have the potential to greatly increase women’s agency and autonomy, as well [...]
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UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - At the meeting commemorating the 35th anniversary of the right to development, MMM reaffirmed the importance of care work, including mothers' unpaid care work, to thi [...]
Read more24.02.23
On 28th February 2023, Make Mothers Matter together with partners, is organizing a conference at the European Parliament to tackle the issue of the gender care gap in relation to intra-EU mobility. Fe [...]
Read more19.02.23
UN New York - Our virtual #CSocD61 event, which took place on the margins of the 61st UN Commission on Social Development, brought together expert speakers from varied backgrounds to discuss the situa [...]
Read more17.02.23
UN New York, CSocD61 - Those are the concluding words of our representative at the UN in New York to the the UN Commission on Social Development. She called on the Commission to reaffirm the importanc [...]
Read more07.02.23
MMM welcomes a new political decision by the European Parliament and the European Council taken in December 2022, regarding pay transparency measures. [...]
Read more29.09.25
A Look Back at Our State of Motherhood Survey Presentation at the EU Parliament
16.09.25
Make Mothers Matter was recently featured on Belgian public broadcaster RTBF’s Tendances Première radio show to present the findings from our latest report, The State of Motherhood in Europe 2024. The discus
08.09.25
UN Geneva – MMM actively took part in the first session of the UN Human Rights Council’s working group, which is exploring the possibility of drafting an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of
28.08.25
On 22 September 2025, the voices of mothers will take centre stage in Brussels. For the first time, Make Mothers Matter (MMM) will present its State of Motherhood in Europe report at the European Parliament, ur
01.08.25
UN New York – Following the Human Rights Council's 2025 Annual day on the rights of the child – which focussed on Early Childhood Development – a resolution on that same topic will be tabled at the 80th U
29.07.25
UN New York – UN New York – On 16 July, we hosted a side-event at the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF) titled Unpaid Care at the Core: A Catalyst for Achieving the SDGs. The event aimed to highlight the