Unpaid Family Care Work

Empowering mothers to mitigate and adapt to climate change

27.10.21

UN New York / CSW – In its written statement to the 66th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), MMM brings focus on the specific impacts that climate change has on women as mot [...]

Women’s Rights & Children’s Rights – developing synergies, minimizing tensions

12.10.21

MMM has contributed to a newly released book on this theme. [...]

Women at the frontline of the global water crisis

27.09.21

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - During the dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to water, MMM drew attention to the impact of the global water crisis on women's rights and unpaid care w [...]

Françoise de Bellefroid 1925-2021

22.09.21

Françoise de Bellefroid was President of MMM, then World Movement of Mothers, from 1992 to 2000. She passed away in Brussels this Summer leaving 24 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren! We would [...]

MMM France presents results of first 1000 days survey – Will French mothers be heard?

21.09.21

To advocate for the needs and expectations of mothers in relation to the French government's forthcoming reform on the #1000premiersjours (#First1000Days), MMM France was determined to hear and consul [...]

Unpaid care work is work that our economic system must recognize, invest in and support

19.07.21

UN New York / HLPF - A look back at our side-event to the UN High Level Political Forum [...]

MMM commits to strengthening advocacy on unpaid care work

28.06.21

Paris Gender Equality Forum - MMM joins the Action Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights for women by becoming a "commitment maker" to push for systemic change in our economic system so that it wor [...]

Revisiting SDG 8 with a “Care lens”

16.06.21

UN New York / HLPF - In our written Statement to the 2021 High Level Political Forum, we revisit SDG 8, which will be reviewed this year. We argue that “Work” must be redefined as a holistic conce [...]

Social protection for mothers and children is an investment

08.06.21

ILO's International Labour Conference - MMM's intervention stressed the critical importance, relevance, and legitimacy of realizing universal social protection for unpaid caregivers, especially mother [...]

The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan: steady progress for unpaid care work

14.04.21

The pandemic has shed light on the most valuable, yet invisible and undervalued work: care work. Without it, our societies would grind to a halt. It is carers all over the world who have been at the f [...]

Unpaid Family Care Work

Empowering mothers to mitigate and adapt to climate change

Women’s Rights & Children’s Rights – developing synergies, minimizing tensions

Women at the frontline of the global water crisis

Françoise de Bellefroid 1925-2021

MMM France presents results of first 1000 days survey – Will French mothers be heard?

Unpaid care work is work that our economic system must recognize, invest in and support

MMM commits to strengthening advocacy on unpaid care work

Revisiting SDG 8 with a “Care lens”

Social protection for mothers and children is an investment

The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan: steady progress for unpaid care work

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We call for multi-stakeholder approach to recognise and support unpaid care work

Economic systems failing mothers’ rights

Time Poverty and the Motherhood Penalty
Unveiling Economic and Social Injustices

Mothers, unpaid care work and global crises – connecting the dots

Widowed mothers: MMM calls for addressing the distinct challenges they face

MMM teams push for strengthening the right to education

Unpaid Family Care Work

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