Breast Feeding and Work : Lets make it work

Message from The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action for the 2015 World Breastfeeding Week  ( 1- 7 August 2015) :

The Innocenti Declaration (1990) recognized that breastfeeding provides ideal nutrition for infants and contributes to their healthy growth and development. 

The Declaration calls for the creation of an appropriate environment of awareness and support and that the ‘Protection, Promotion and Support’ of breastfeeding are actions that contribute to attaining this ideal. 

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).

 Together, we can make it work!