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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 [...]

Mothers are more likely to be at risk of poverty in old age

04.04.21

UN Geneva - In its response to the Human Rights of Older Women consultation, MMM identifies the inequitable distribution of unpaid family caregiving duties between men and women as a root cause of the [...]

No country can get ahead without the right to education for all

02.04.21

UN Geneva, HRC46 - This was the core message delivered at the UN Human Rights Council by Rahela Sidiqi, founder & Director of the Farkhunda Trust for Afghan Women's Education, an MMM associate member. [...]

MMM reaffirms: caring for a child is work, an absolute necessity, resource and investment

29.03.21

UN New York, CSW65 - In her intervention at a parallel event to the 65th UN Commission on the Status of Women organized by OMEP, MMM President Anne-Claire de Liedekerke also drew attention to the pric [...]

Mothers make great leaders – But face systemic barriers to participation and decision-making in public life

14.03.21

UN New York, CSW - MMM's written statement ahead of the 65th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women points to the inequitable distribution of unpaid family care work as the main systemic [...]

Could the upcoming revision of national accounting bring visibility to unpaid care work?

09.03.21

UN New York, Statistical Commission - MMM welcomes the inclusion of wellbeing and sustainability in the process of revision of the 2008 System of National Accounts. We hope it will bring about systemi [...]

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 [...]

Child poverty alleviation cannot be disassociated from support to parents

01.03.21

UN Geneva, Human Rights Council - Make Mothers Matter took advantage of the meeting on poverty alleviation and human rights to raise the issue of child poverty for the attention of the Council. [...]

MMM spotlights parenting and motherhood challenges in the digital era

19.02.21

UN New York, CSocD59 – MMM's oral statement at the general debate closed our series of contributions to the 59th UN Commission on Social Development [...]

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Revisiting SDG 8 with a “Care lens”

Social protection for mothers and children is an investment

Mothers are more likely to be at risk of poverty in old age

No country can get ahead without the right to education for all

MMM reaffirms: caring for a child is work, an absolute necessity, resource and investment

Mothers make great leaders – But face systemic barriers to participation and decision-making in public life

Could the upcoming revision of national accounting bring visibility to unpaid care work?

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

Child poverty alleviation cannot be disassociated from support to parents

MMM spotlights parenting and motherhood challenges in the digital era

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