The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a global network of individuals
& organisations concerned with the protection, promotion & support of breastfeeding worldwide.
WABA action is based on the Innocenti Declaration, the Ten Links for Nurturing the Future and the
Global Strategy for Infant & Young Child Feeding. WABA is in consultative status with UNICEF & an NGO
in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

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Extended Maternity Leave from 6 to 9 months in Iran Despite the Discriminatory Gender Policies.

In Iran, working mothers are allowed to stay with their babies up to nine months after their birth and enjoy the sweet sense of being mother.

The act of extension of maternity leave to 9 months and 2 weeks paternity leave with pay was proposed and passed by Cabinet on July 6th 2014.

The extension of maternity leave was enacted and notified by the president of Islamic Republic of Iran within Family Law Reform Act of Population Regulation.

On the other hand Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament recently approved some measures, such as extending maternity leave – which contributes to women’s unemployment as about one-third of mothers are sacked by their employers when they return to work – and making labour free of charge in state-run hospitals to encourage women to have more children. It is also looking into a plan which would penalise abortion and vasectomy and prohibit any advertisement encouraging birth control.

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A Map of Maternity Leave Policies Around The World:
If you are a woman and your employer provides you paid maternity leave, consider yourself lucky. There are only a handful of countries including USA that do not provide paid maternity leave for new working mothers. Here is the link to the map

To view the map please click here

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