2023-08-02 13:55:12
About the campaign
Women should not have to choose between breastfeeding their children or working.
World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated the first week of August every year, with the support of WHO, UNICEF and many Ministries of Health and civil society partners. This year’s theme will focus on breastfeeding and work, providing a strategic opportunity to advocate for essential maternity rights that support breastfeeding: maternity leave of a minimum of 18 weeks, ideally more than 6 months, and adaptations in the workplace later. These are urgent issues to ensure that women can breastfeed for as long as they want to: more than 500 million working women lack basic maternity provisions; many more find themselves without support when they return to work.
WHO will dedicate this week to championing best practice for breastfeeding support in the workplace, in different countries, across different types of contracts and sectors, and promoting actions that can be taken to help ensure that breastfeeding works for all working women, wherever they work.
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