Mothers and the Economy

Prioritising SDG 5 Target 5.4 to recognize the work of mothers and advance all the SDGs

09.05.22

UN New York, HLPF - In the Sustainable Development Goals, Target 5.4 calls for the recognition, reduction and redistribution of unpaid family care work, i.e. the domestic and care work done on a daily [...]

An almost Perfect Mother – New Podcast series with Isabelle Roskam

26.04.22

We are delighted to be launching our new podcast series An almost Perfect Mother featuring Isabelle Roskam, professor of development and parenting psychology at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Isa [...]

The European Care Strategy: The right time to place Mothers centre stage

28.03.22

Make Mothers Matter strongly welcomes the launch of a European Care Strategy. In these unprecedented times, when Europe is navigating a global pandemic, when political tensions boil over and heinous [ [...]

Care – Key contributor to peace and security

17.03.22

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - In an oral intervention, MMM reasserted the need to recognize and support the essential yet often unpaid work of caring as an essential pillar of peace and prosperity [...]

Food security and human development: time to recognise the contributions of rural mothers

14.03.22

UN Geneva, 49th Human Rights Council - In an oral statement, MMM highlighted the structural discriminations that women farmers, in particular mothers, continue to suffer all over the world. [...]

Time to recognize that a mother’s #UnpaidCareWorkCounts

08.03.22

On this International Women’s Day, we salute the courage of all people living in conflicts and war zones which, in so many parts of the world, are destroying lives. The brutality and devastation the [...]

Call for an end to systematic human rights violations against indigenous mothers

03.03.22

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - Our associate member EDO Group was one of four civil society organisations given a speaking slot during the high level segment of the 49th Human Rights Council. In he [...]

Covid-19 increased poverty and anxiety among mothers

18.02.22

UN New York, Commission on Social Development - In its oral statement MMM spotlights the particular impact of Covid-19 on mothers, highlighting how the increase in their unpaid work, along with job lo [...]

Time for an economic system that values and supports care

22.01.22

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - The pandemic has exposed the crucial importance of Care for our collective wellbeing and the essential role parents, and in particular mothers, play in maintaining th [...]

Care and Education at the heart of a transformative recovery

07.01.22

UN New York, Commission on Social Development - MMM written statement to the 60th session focuses on its main priority theme: 'Inclusive and resilient recovery from COVID-19 for sustainable livelihood [...]

Mothers and the Economy

Prioritising SDG 5 Target 5.4 to recognize the work of mothers and advance all the SDGs

An almost Perfect Mother – New Podcast series with Isabelle Roskam

The European Care Strategy: The right time to place Mothers centre stage

Care – Key contributor to peace and security

Food security and human development: time to recognise the contributions of rural mothers

Time to recognize that a mother’s #UnpaidCareWorkCounts

Call for an end to systematic human rights violations against indigenous mothers

Covid-19 increased poverty and anxiety among mothers

Time for an economic system that values and supports care

Care and Education at the heart of a transformative recovery

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