Maternity Protection Resource Package - From Aspiration to Reality for All

This global report updates the current knowledge of the status and progress of maternity legislation around the world, providing a comprehensive review of national legislative provisions for maternity protection in 167 member States, with a particular focus on how well countries' provisions conform to the ILO Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183), and its accompanying Recommendation (No. 191).

Workplace partnerships are effective for working parents considering childcare solutions. The focus of this book is on why workplace partners around the world have become involved in childcare and about the nature of programmes that have been implemented. Ten countries, industrialized and developing, are examined through a national overview on policies and facilities for childcare and the implications for working parents, followed by case studies of specific workplaces.

WISE-R consists of six modules and training guides that aim to promote workplace productivity through the improvement of working conditions. WISE-R Module 5 on Family-friendly measures will help the reader: to understand family responsibilities and their link with businesses and productivity; to address maternity-related workplace issues; and to formulate and implement practical family-friendly workplace measures.

ACT/EMP developed training packages on Managing Diversity and Equality at the Workplace, where the overall aim is to enhance the capacity of employers’ organizations and other representative business organizations to assist and work with enterprises to launch or further develop initiatives on diversity and equality at the workplace and thereby harness the potential of a diverse and gender equal workplace.

This guide looks at maternity protection in the workplace, focusing on measures that can be taken to ensure a healthy beginning for both the mother and her child. The starting points are the health protection measures of the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183) and its Recommendation (No. 191).

The guidelines summarize the experience and research evidence regarding HIV and infant feeding accumulated since the WHO’s recommendations in 2006. In particular, evidence that antiretroviral interventions to either the HIV-infected mother or HIV-exposed infant can significantly reduce the risk of postnatal transmission of HIV through breastfeeding.

The Model Chapter on Infant and Young Child Feeding is intended for use in basic training of health professionals. It describes essential knowledge and basic skills that every health professional who works with mothers and young children should master.

A list of acceptable medical reasons for supplementation was originally developed by the WHO and UNICEF as an annex to the Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) package of tools in 1992.

Many people who have heard about the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes have expressed interest in knowing more about it. The purpose of this document is to provide easy-to-read detailed information on specific questions related to the Code.

Increasing women's access to quality midwifery has become a focus of global efforts to realize the right of every woman to the best possible health care during pregnancy and childbirth. A first step is assessing the situation. This report, supported by 30 partners, provides the first comprehensive analysis of midwifery services and issues in countries where the needs are greatest.

How do we improve the lives of the nearly 3 billion individuals living on less than two dollars a day? How can we enable all individuals – male and female, young and old – to protect themselves from HIV? To save the lives of women who die each year in childbirth? What will it take to show young people living in poverty that they have a stake in development and a hope for the future? For perhaps the first time in history, questions such as these are not simply rhetorical. They have answers: answers that go to the very heart of what it means to be a woman or a man, wealthy or poor.

This fact sheet describes some of the gender inequality issues, such as occupational segregation, working poverty, gender-based wage gaps, women’s disproportionate representation in informal employment and unpaid work, which contribute to challenges in implementing maternity protection.

This action kit, prepared by a coalition of worldwide breastfeeding networks to strengthen the ratification campaigns of the ILO Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No.183), presents a comprehensive understanding of maternity protection from a breastfeeding angle. It underlines how breastfeeding is an important component of maternity protection, addressing all stakeholders on the matter. It gives examples of progressive legislation and actions worldwide, including on setting up breastfeeding facilities at the workplace.