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7. Collaboration with Women's Organisations
Breastfeeding advocacy needs to take into account the social and economic conditions of women which hinder breastfeeding. For women to provide the best possible food and care for their children, they themselves need to have enough food and social support, with easy access to quality health care. If breastfeeding is to be valued as productive work and not a woman's duty, then maternity legislation, child-care facilities, and a reduction in the multiple burdens that women have to bear must be provided. This series of workshops will empower participants to better collaborate with women's organisations to develop a joint programme of action for breastfeeding as a woman's right.
I. Breastfeeding Support in the Context of Globalisation - Penny Van Esterik, York University, Canada , Facilitator
This workshop is designed to raise consciousness of women's social and economic situations, especially the impact of globalisation. We will explore how we can address these problems while helping women breastfeed by suggesting feasible action plans.
- Overview: impact of globalisation on women - Dra. Ana Maria Pizarro, Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network, Nicaragua
- Grace Loumo, IWCN-Uganda
- Problems faced by women urban poor communities and women workers in the informal work - Paloma Lerma Bergua, IBFAN/LLLI, Mexico
II. Women's Health, Reproductive Health Rights and Breastfeeding
Support - Lakshmi Menon, WABA, Facilitator
This workshop is designed to increase awareness on reproductive health and rights, women's nutrition and its link to pregnancy and childbirth, breastfeeding, child nutrition and related traditional practices. Strategic action plans will be discussed with women's groups for joint activities.
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Reproductive health rights - Rashidah Abdullah, ARROW, Malaysia
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Women's health conditions and health needs- Vd. Smitha Bajpai, CHETNA, India
III. Counting the Work of Breastfeeding: A Perspective for Caring Not
Killing
How to get the unwaged work of breastfeeding measured and valued; practical actions that are being taken in Africa and elsewhere - Organised by the International Women Count Network (IWCN)
IV. Towards a Common Advocacy Agenda - Maria Zuniga Hamlin, Rashidah Abdullah and Marta Trejos, Facilitator
Breastfeeding is a basic human right and it is agreed that the protection of women's right to breastfeed is shared position of the women's movement and breastfeeding movement. Women can fully exercise this right only where there exists an appropriate social and political environment whereby women's contribution to productive and reproductive work including nurturing is recognized.
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Gender inequalities and the problems women face in combining breastfeeding and work - Rashidah Abdullah, ARROW, Malaysia
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Without women, impossible! strategies for collaborating with women's organisation - Marta Trejos, CEFEMINA and Maria Hamlin-Zuniga IPH/PHM, Nicaragua
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