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Dear friends,

Join the virtual workshop! 

WABA, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, announces the initiation
of its virtual workshop on the breastfeeding rights of working women. This
website will provide ongoing information about the activities taking place
at the "WABA International Workshop on Breastfeeding, Women & Work: Human
Rights to Creative Solutions" in Quezon City, the Philippines on June 1-5.
Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Sida (or
ASDI), this seminar will be of interest to breastfeeding advocates,
feminists, and union activists alike. 

This year the International Labour Organization (ILO) has begun work on
revising its convention on maternity protection. This presents an opportune
moment to examine why so little progress has been made on the Innocenti
Declaration goal to develop "imaginative" legislation in support of the
breastfeeding rights of working women. WABA is taking this opportunity to:

* examine what we know on this topic, 
* review the results of the work done so far by eight NGOs around the world
under its mother-friendly workplace seed grant project, 
* develop an international strategy for further work on this issue,and
* plan advocacy support that groups around the world may need to lobby their
ILO committees, unions and employer organizations to ensure that the new ILO
convention takes us a step further toward achieving a world in which working
mothers receive the support they need to breastfeed including the right to
stay home with their babies during the recommended period of exclusive
breastfeeding without being penalized through loss of income, job security
or seniority.

Presentations at the meeting will be made by representatives of WABA,
representatives of NGOs from countries around the world that have been
working on this issue at home, researchers, the International Baby Food
Action Network IBFAN, the ILO, UNICEF, WHO and Sida consultants.

TO VIEW THE WEBSITE AND EVEN PROVIDE YOUR INPUT INTO THE PROCEEDINGS, VISIT
THE WABA WEBSITE AT

http://www.elogica.com.br/waba/seminar.htm

Sincerely yours,

Denise Arcoverde
WABA - World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action
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"Lactancia Materna: La Mejor Inversión" SMA, 1998
Judy Canahuati, MPhil., IBCLC               
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