Anne-Claire de Liedekerke, President of MMM
President: Anne Claire de Liedekerke (Belgium)
Secretary-General: Marie-Liesse Mandula (France)
Vice-President: Valérie Bichelmeier, Head of MMM UN Delegation (Switzerland)
Vice-President: Johanna Schima, Head of EU Delegation (Belgium)
Laurence van den Abeele, President, MMM Belgium
Alain Englebert, President, En Avant les Enfants – EALE (Belgium/DRC)
Jocelyne Le Pivain, President, MMM France
Roland Vaxelaire, Consultant (Belgium)
Aliette Abraham, President – Otitsara (Madagascar)
Philip Biswas, Founder & Director, Rural Reconstruction Foundation – RRF (Bangladesh)
Bolly Kouassi, President, AJAD (Ivory Coast)
Nikki van der Gaag, Independent Consultant on Gender equality issues (UK)
Xavier Prats-Monné, Special Advisor,President of the European Committee of the King Baudouin Foundation (Spain)
MMM Teams and Representatives of member organisations at the 2019 General Assembly
Marie-Liesse Mandula, General Secretary
The International Secretariat is the operational arm of MMM whose role is to ensure the ongoing management of the association:
Johanna Shima, Véronique de Vaumas, Laetitia Wolkonski, Anne-Michelle de Mathelin, Kristzina Szalachy
→ Read about the work of the EU Delegation here
Alexandra Bouée (New York), Valerie Bichelmeier (Geneva), Jacqueline Leduc (New York), Karen Thorsen (Geneva), Carole Joncour (New York), Mélanie Nédélec (Geneva)
Irina Palffy, UN Vienna
→ Read about the work of the UN Delegation here
Caroline de Senneville, Marie-Liesse Mandula
→ Read about the work of the UNESCO Delegation here
Laurence Vanden Abeele Bosteels, President of MMM Belgium
Jocelyne Le Pivain, President of MMM France
25.01.23
A new Act, the Coroners (Amendment) 2019 Act, was passed in full and enacted at the beginning of 2020. This law makes reporting and inquests into all maternal deaths mandatory. It also allows Coroners to go bey
03.01.23
UN New York, Commission on Social Development (CSoCD61) - In our written statement submitted ahead of this year's Commission, MMM points to the inequitable distribution of unpaid family care work as the root ca
18.12.22
The European Child Guarantee and universal maternal healthcare in Europe: the essential role of maternal health in the first 1000 days of child development
14.12.22
Despite the growing number of families headed by a single parent, single parents remain one of the most vulnerable groups when it comes to poverty, housing and energy deficits, and health challenges.
06.12.22
We are searching for an academic partner for an EU survey on issues concerning mothers to be used as a lever for change.
03.12.22
UN Geneva, Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development - Commenting on a draft thematic study on Inequality and social protection systems in operationalizing the right to development, MMM highlighted the impor