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The theme of this year’s World
Breastfeeding Week “Breastfeeding
and Work – Let’s Make it Work! ” highlights the importance of
supporting working mothers to breastfeed. ILO is pleased to endorse this
workplace initiative and to align the ILO’s support with that of UNICEF and
the WHO .
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WABA – World Alliance for Breastfeeding
http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/index.shtml
WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK
(Coordinated by WABA) - 1-7 August 2015
This World Breastfeeding Week,
WABA calls for concerted global action to support women to combine
breastfeeding and work. Whether a woman is working in the formal, non-formal or
home setting, it is necessary that she is empowered in claiming her and her
baby’s right to breastfeed.
The WBW 2015 theme on working women and breastfeeding revisits
the 1993 WBW campaign on the Mother-Friendly Workplace Initiative. Much has
been achieved in 22 years of global action supporting women in combining
breastfeeding and work, particularly the adoption of the revised ILO Convention
183 on Maternity Protection with much stronger maternity entitlements, and more
country actions on improving national laws and practices. At the workplace
level, we have also seen more actions taken to set up breastfeeding or
mother-friendly workplaces including awards for breastfeeding-friendly
employers, as well as greater mass awareness on working women’s rights to
breastfeed.
The Innocenti Declaration (1990) recognised that breastfeeding provides ideal
nutrition for infants and contributes to their healthy growth and development.
There is much that remains to be done despite 25 years of hard work,
particularly on the fourth Innocenti target that calls on governments to
“…enact imaginative legislation protecting the breastfeeding rights of working
women and establish means for its enforcement”.
WABA calls for:
·
concerted global action to support women to combine
breastfeeding and work, whether in the formal sector, non-formal sector, or at
home
·
ratification and implementation of maternity protection laws and
regulations by governments, in line with the ILO Maternity Protection Convention
·
inclusion of breastfeeding target indicators in the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
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The WABA Coordinated World Breastfeeding Week is part of the
gBICS (Global Breastfeeding Initiative for Child Survival) Programme entitled:
"Enhancing Breastfeeding Rates Contributes to Women's Rights, Health, and
a Sustainable Environment". The gBICS Programme aims to contribute to the
achievement of sustainable development - beyond the Millennium Development
Goals - by scaling up breastfeeding and infant and young child interventions
and transforming Policies into Practice which contributes to efforts aimed at
addressing climate change and gender inequality in the framework of human
rights. WABA is grateful to NORAD (the Norwegian Agency for Development
Cooperation) for its support of gBICS.
WABA would also like to acknowledge the support of the United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organisation (WHO), as well as the
participation of our Core Partners - Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM),
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), International Lactation
Consultant Association (ILCA), La Leche League International (LLLI), and
Wellstart International - in the successful coordination of World Breastfeeding
Weeks