Mothers and the Economy

Covid-19: ‘We need a Care & education-led recovery’ says MMM President

18.11.20

Speaking at the UfM Women4Mediteranean Conference 2020, MMM President Anne-Claire de Liedekerke also called for radical change in the way we perceive and value Care, education, and those who are respo [...]

Joint Statement for a Framework Directive on Minimum Income

12.11.20

In a joint statement on 12 November 2020, together with numerous organisations, we called on the European Commission to respond to the Council Conclusions of October 2020, on “Strengthening Minimu [...]

Meeting of the EPSCO Council

15.10.20

13 October 2020: The Employment, Social Policy and Health Consumer affairs Council of the EU (EPSCO) held a virtual debate on the equal participation of women and men in the labour market. They dis [...]

MMM joins the Wellbeing Economy Alliance

17.09.20

We are delighted to announce MMM’s recent joining of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), a collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and individuals working towards a wellbeing econom [...]

Women’s unpaid care work must be considered in the realisation of the right to water

17.09.20

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - MMM contributed to the discussion on the progressive realisation of the human rights to safe water and sanitation by bringing to the attention of the Council the impo [...]

Care – and mothers – must be at the center of systemic changes to our economy

15.09.20

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - During the discussion on the impact of Covid-19 on Human Rights, MMM echoes the UN SG on the importance of Care, and calls on governments to move towards a more carin [...]

The untapped political power of mothers

01.09.20

Media - We are delighted to feature this article about the power of mothers in the most recent edition of Causette - a feminist magazine published in France. [...]

Placing Care & Education at the heart of a new economic system

28.07.20

UN New York, High Level Political Forum - report and recording of the MMM Side-Event [...]

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. [...]

Mothers and the Economy

Covid-19: ‘We need a Care & education-led recovery’ says MMM President

Joint Statement for a Framework Directive on Minimum Income

Meeting of the EPSCO Council

MMM joins the Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Women’s unpaid care work must be considered in the realisation of the right to water

Care – and mothers – must be at the center of systemic changes to our economy

The untapped political power of mothers

Placing Care & Education at the heart of a new economic system

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

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