World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 August
You shouldn't require superpowers to juggle breastfeeding and work
WHO
During World Breastfeeding Week 2023, WHO and UNICEF are emphasizing the need for greater breastfeeding support across all workplaces to sustain and improve progress on breastfeeding rates globally.
During World Breastfeeding Week 2023, WHO and UNICEF are emphasizing the need for greater breastfeeding support across all workplaces to sustain and improve progress on breastfeeding rates globally.
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Let’s make breastfeeding and work, work!
- More than half a billion working women are not given essential maternity protections in national laws
- Just 20% of countries require employers to provide employees with paid breaks and facilities for breastfeeding or expressing milk
- Fewer than half of infants under 6 months of age are exclusively breastfed.
Joint statement
