WBW 2015 : BREASTFEEDING AND WORK LET’S MAKE IT WORK!

World Breastfeeding Week

1 - 7 August 2015

BREASTFEEDING AND WORK

LET’S MAKE IT WORK!

The World Breasfeeding Week (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.

With the WBW 2015 campaign, WABA and its partners at global, regional and national levels aim to empower and support ALL women, working in both the formal and informal sectors, to adequately combine work with child-rearing, particularly breastfeeding. (We define work in its broadest form from paid employment, self-employment, seasonal and contract work to unpaid home and care work).

Various strategies exist to support women working in your country or community from long-term actions to short-term actions. Together, we can make it work!

Here are a few ideas to kick off your WBW 2015 planning process: 

source : http://www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org