World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 August

World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 August

You shouldn't require superpowers to juggle breastfeeding and work

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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

Nepal. In a health care facility, a woman breastfeeds her child. A health worker watches over her.

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Statement on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week

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