In the face of the budgetary and political crisis following the USA withdrawal from WHO, IBFAN will be present once again at the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on 19-27 May 2025. advocating that WHO remains strong on its core constitutional purpose to help governments protect the health of all citizens.
After more than four decades working to prevent child illness, suffering and death, IBFAN is well aware of the pain that each loss causes. In more than 160 countries our network has worked in adverse conditions...
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The 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78)will be on the 19 -24 May, 2025, gathering almost 200 Ministers of Health in Geneva, at Palais des Nations. As every year it has been an important moment to review and planning the main...
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In the face of the budgetary and political crisis following the USA withdrawal from WHO, IBFAN will be present once again at the WHA78 advocating that WHO remains strong on its core constitutional purpose to help governments protect the health...
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Toxic heavy metals are all around us, in bedrock and in the earth. Inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury are among these poisonous chemical elements. They can accumulate in soil and can leach into water...
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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