WBW2025 will focus on environment and climate change. It will highlight our roles in supporting breastfeeding to create a sustainable environment while simultaneously reducing the impact of climate change caused by artificial feeding.
The lack of food, and medical supplies that mothers and families of Gaza face is catastrophic. The situation in the Sudan and many other countries is also horrific. IBFAN urges the UN and everyone in the International Community to act now to end...
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IBFAN calls for urgent action to restrict the production and use of plastics that pollute our planet and damage human health. Tiny plastic particles, known as microplastics, contain toxic chemicals that contaminate soil, water and processed foods
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WBW 2025 will focus on environment and climate change. It will highlight our roles in supporting breastfeeding to create a sustainable environment while simultaneously reducing the impact of climate change caused by artificial feeding.
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The seminar was held as a side event during the 78th World Health Assembly, which took place from 19 to 24 May 2025 in Geneva, at the Palais des Nations, bringing together nearly 200 Ministers of Health.
Read MoreAn increasing number of women are entering the job market and they need maternity protection to make a balance between their productive and reproductive roles to take care of themselves, their children and their families.
READ MOREThis paper presents IBFAN’s position on maternity protection at work and the tools for advocacy needed to increase the implementation of measures that enable mothers to participate as equals in the workplace while exercising their reproductive rights to breastfeed.
READ MOREMany women find ways to continue breastfeeding their baby. Employers and course providers have certain obligations towards breastfeeding women to support your return to work or study.
READ MORE100 years ago, the ILO adopted the first-ever international standard on maternity protection. Since that Convention, the definition of maternity protection has expanded and its importance has become more widely appreciated – including as an essential element in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of good health, gender equality, decent work and economic growth. But, despite this progress, many mothers and mothers-to-be still face serious challenges in the workplace.
VIDEO ‘100 years of maternity protection’, from the channel International Labour Organization, published on YouTube on 8/11/2019.
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