WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK – 2023

Making a Difference for Working Parents

REGISTER HERE for the Global Breastfeeding Coalition Webinar at 2pm Geneva time.

The right to maternity protection for mothers who work outside the home is the theme of this year’s World Breastfeeding Week – an annual event organised since 1992 by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. IBFAN is joining WABA, WHO, UNICEF, the Global Breastfeeding Coalition (GBC), LLL and NGO partners for a wide range of events that will show how evidence-based policies can remove the obstacles and help make combining breastfeeding and work easier.

Click here for the links to the website,  social media, and webinar registration and times   

The People’s Health Movement’s People’s Dispatch has an interview with myself and David McCoy about the relevance of World Breastfeeding Week. David summarised the findings of the 2023 Lancet series that showed how increased sales have translated into increased power of the baby feeding companies and how the claim that this industry brings economic benefit to countries is greatly exaggerated. The profits are mostly consumed by rich inshareholders in the North while the costs (ill health, environmental damage etc) are externalised to the people and public sectors in the poorest countries, with women carrying a disproportionate burden.

IBFAN Mexico will focus on the informal sector. “More than thirteen million women working outside the home are in the informal sector and produce half of the 22 per cent of GDP1 that the informal economy contributes. Working women perform more than three quarters of domestic work, which, if properly accounted, would be equivalent to an additional quarter of the national GDP. 11,474,983 women are heads of household2 and are therefore also the main breadwinners for thei familiess.”

REGISTER HERE for the Global Breastfeeding Coalition Webinar at 2pm Geneva time.

The right to maternity protection for mothers who work outside the home is the theme of this year’s World Breastfeeding Week – an annual event organised since 1992 by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. IBFAN is joining WABA, WHO, UNICEF, the Global Breastfeeding Coalition (GBC), LLL and NGO partners for a wide range of events that will show how evidence-based policies can remove the obstacles and help make combining breastfeeding and work easier.

Click here for the links to the website,  social media, and webinar registration and times   

The People’s Health Movement’s People’s Dispatch has an interview with myself and David McCoy about the relevance of World Breastfeeding Week. David summarised the findings of the 2023 Lancet series that showed how increased sales have translated into increased power of the baby feeding companies and how the claim that this industry brings economic benefit to countries is greatly exaggerated. The profits are mostly consumed by rich inshareholders in the North while the costs (ill health, environmental damage etc) are externalised to the people and public sectors in the poorest countries, with women carrying a disproportionate burden.