Latest News from MMM and its Network
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights says “good intentions are not enough.”
05.03.21
Make Mothers Matter welcomes the statement recently made by Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights .
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 the UN Spe
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’s associate member MATERNITY ACTION campaigns for reform of the UK Parental Leave Scheme
20.02.21
In April 2015 the Shared Parental Leave Scheme came into force in the United Kingdom. The new scheme still required that new mothers take the first two weeks of maternity leave. But now they could exchange th
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
Harnessing digital technologies for family wellbeing: our collective responsibility
14.02.21
UN New York, CSocD59 - A look back at our virtual side-event that took place on February 12th to coincide with the 59th UN Commission on Social Development