Who Cares in the Climate Crisis? Gender, Rights, and Resilience

07.11.25

As the world prepares for the next UN Climate Change Conference (COP), Make Mothers Matter (MMM) highlights a crucial yet overlooked truth: care is essential infrastructure. When floods destroy homes  [...]

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Breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty by investing in children and their families

07.05.24

Make Mothers Matter participated in the conference “Investing in an inclusive and fair future for Europe. European Child Guarantee: from engagement to reality“, organised within the framework  [...]

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EU Directive on Pay Transparency

07.02.23

MMM welcomes a new political decision by the European Parliament and the European Council taken in December 2022, regarding pay transparency measures. [...]

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World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education: MMM promotes shared parenting

03.11.22

Organised by UNESCO, the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education will be held from 14-16 November in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. We will be there and are organising a side event on the transf [...]

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AFAMMER awarded EESC Civil Solidarity Prize

21.05.21

In 2020, The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) launched a one-off contest as an alternative to the annual EESC Civil Society Prize, to recognise  “those who have gone above and beyond t [...]

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MMM joins the call for the recognition of the right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment

05.03.21

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - MMM oral statement also drew attention to the specific vulnerabilities of women and children to water scarcity and water pollution, the focus of the latest report of  [...]

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Beijing+25 – The time to care is now

25.02.20

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - MMM highlights the issues that particularly constraint the economic empowerment of mothers, unpaid care work, the lack of a family-friendly economic environment, and  [...]

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Over 150 organisations call on EU leaders to prioritise a Sustainable Europe at this month’s EUCO Summit 

11.06.19

Real economy should work towards a sustainable & just society. #EUCO put #SustainableEurope at the heart of your priorities, join the 150+ organisations and millions of citizens raising their voic [...]

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Seminar on the role of families in the circular economy – 14 May 2019 EESC Brussels

15.04.19

Make Mothers Matter is organising in partnership with the European Economic and Social Committee a seminar on “the Role of Families in achieving the Circular Economy” on the occasion of the Intern [...]

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IWD2019 – “What we want is for the world to be aware of how much mothers matter” – Anne-Claire de Liedekerke, President of MMM

06.03.19

On the eve of International Women’s Day former BBC television presenter Shahnaz Pakravan talks with Anne-Claire de Liedekerke, President of international NGO Make Mothers Matter, about the importanc [...]

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Latest News from MMM and its Network

Climate Change: A Maternal Physical and Mental Health Emergency

13.11.25

In the lead-up to the UN climate change conference in Belem, Brazil (COP30), MMM was delighted to collaborate with Dr. Saravanan Thangarajan, a Visiting Scientist & Faculty member at Harvard T.H. Chan School of

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Rebuilding the Modern Village: Mothers, Children, and Older Generations in Mutual Care

12.11.25

Make Mothers Matter (MMM) submitted its recommendations to the European Commission’s initiative on Intergenerational Fairness, aiming to ensure that today’s decisions do not compromise the well-being of fu

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Tackling Child Poverty Means Supporting Parents: Olivier De Schutter’s Call to Action

11.11.25

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, has submitted his updated contribution to the European Commission’s consultation on the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy

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Who Cares in the Climate Crisis? Gender, Rights, and Resilience

07.11.25

As the world prepares for the next UN Climate Change Conference (COP), Make Mothers Matter (MMM) highlights a crucial yet overlooked truth: care is essential infrastructure. When floods destroy homes or heatwav

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Affordable Housing for Mothers: A Key to Ending Poverty and Inequality in Europe

06.11.25

Make Mothers Matter (MMM) has submitted its contribution to the European Commission’s consultation on the European Affordable Housing Plan, calling for stronger recognition of mothers’ specific housing vu

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State of Motherhood in Europe – key findings presented at the Congress of Women in Poland

31.10.25

Katowice, September 2025 — The State of Motherhood in Europe report was officially launched in Poland during the

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