Mothers and the Economy

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UN Chief denounces ‘the fiction that unpaid care work is not work’

26.07.20

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered a strong and compelling message in his recent Nelson Mandela Lecture: 'Tackling the Inequality Pandemic: A new social contract for a new era’. [...]

World of work must adapt to people and families – not the other way around

07.07.20

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - MMM contributed to the discussion on the report of the UN Working Group on Discrimination against women by offering 3 recommendations. [...]

Informal education must be recognized, parents better supported

05.07.20

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - At the meeting with the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, MMM drew attention to how, In the context of the pandemic and imposed lockdown, the demand for u [...]

Care and Education – Cornerstones of sustainable and just economies

04.07.20

UN New York, HLPF - Invitation to a virtual side-event to the 2020 High-Level Political Forum on 16 July [...]

MMM responds to Roadmap on European Green Deal Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

30.06.20

Women may be disproportionately impacted by climate change given their more vulnerable socio-economic position. [...]

1 in 4 children in the EU lives in poverty

12.06.20

On 2 June 2020, Make Mothers Matter, along with its partners of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, with the support of the Social Platform and SDG Watch Europe, issued a Call for Action to the [...]

MMM responds to EU Commission’s Public Consultation on Gender Pay

08.06.20

On May 27th, Make Mothers Matter responded to the EU Commission’s Public Consultation: “Transparency on pay for men and women”. The objective of the consultation was to gather views of stakehold [...]

Joint statement on support for children and families at risk of poverty COVID-19

27.04.20

Make Mothers Matter, together with 20 other partners of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, added its voice in a joint statement calling for EU Member States and the European Commission to supp [...]

When the World Changes

03.04.20

In just a few short weeks, our daily life as we know it has been turned upside down, changing everything. [...]

Portrait of a (working) mother exhibition comes to Zurich

09.03.20

International Women's Day - After Geneva and other venues, the exhibition came to the ETH Zurich, Switzerland's most prestigious engineering university. [...]

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Mothers and the Economy

UN Chief denounces ‘the fiction that unpaid care work is not work’

World of work must adapt to people and families – not the other way around

Informal education must be recognized, parents better supported

Care and Education – Cornerstones of sustainable and just economies

MMM responds to Roadmap on European Green Deal Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change

1 in 4 children in the EU lives in poverty

MMM responds to EU Commission’s Public Consultation on Gender Pay

Joint statement on support for children and families at risk of poverty COVID-19

When the World Changes

Portrait of a (working) mother exhibition comes to Zurich

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