03.07.25
Belgian mothers are facing a mental health crisis. According to the State of Motherhood in Europe 2024 survey by Make Mothers Matter (MMM) and Kantar, Belgium reports the highest rates of both materna [...]
Read more30.05.24
MMM is proud to announce its support of a new initiative aimed at tackling the vital topic of ‘parenthood and employment’, a critically overlooked, urgent, and complex issue world-wide. [...]
Read more14.04.23
Make Mothers Matter, together with the city of Ypres, and its grass roots partners Mothers for Peace, Mama Kivu and the Vrouwenraad, is organizing an international peace Conference Women at the Peace [...]
Read more26.04.22
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 [...]
Read more26.04.22
In March this year Esperas hosted a virtual event to coincide with International Women’s Day 2022. The Peace Lab titled Ambassadors of Hope brought together three remarkable women who have been peac [...]
Read more18.11.19
15th November, Brussels - The 3rd MMM ESPERAS Peace Lab brought together two keynote speakers Professor Christina Bache and women’s rights activist Passy Mubalama who through their expertise offered [...]
Read more12.10.19
Brussels - Esperas of which MMM Belgium is partner witnessed a great result from its 1st peace project. Find out what and how some women are not victims but part of the solution in Brazil, Nicaragua a [...]
Read more20.05.19
MMM Belgium as a founder member, is preparing for the second Esperas Peace Lab this month, to be held at Gent. On the agenda is a presentation of No man’s land, […] [...]
Read more24.09.16
Anne-Claire de Liedekerke, President of Make Mothers Matter, answers questions from La Libre Belgique about mothers' double working lives. [...]
Read more13.01.26
Wednesday 28 January 2026 | 15:15 – 17:30 GMT London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) – Live broadcast #MaternalWellbeingLSE Maternal mental health is one of the most pressing - and most overlo
09.01.26
UN New York – Join us online on 5th February for an official side-event to the 64th UN Commission for Social Development, which will focus on how harnessing the skills developed through the unpaid work of car
08.01.26
UN New York – In a written Statement submitted ahead of the 64th UN Commission on Social Development, Make Mothers Matter highlights a crucial yet still largely overlooked dimension of social development and
15.12.25
UNESCO, Paris – On the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the 1960 Convention against Discrimination in Education, UNESCO brought together the global community at an International Symposium on the Future of
09.12.25
MMM together with its partners of the EU Alliance for Investing in Children, welcomes the recent vote by the European Parliament’s EMPL Committee, which firmly supports substantial and dedicated funding for t
28.11.25
Across Europe, mothers carry out vast amounts of unpaid care work that keeps families and societies functioning—yet much of this labour remains largely invisible in EU policy. A new study shared with Make Mot