For this years’ WBW WABA is calling for concerted global action to support women to combine breastfeeding and work. Whether a woman is working in the formal, non-formal or home setting, it is necessary that she is empowered in claiming her and her baby’s right to breastfeed. Between 1-7 August this year, WABA and breastfeeding advocates in well over 175 countries worldwide will be celebrating the theme: 'BREASTFEEDING and Work -  Let’s Make It Work!’
This year WABA also commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the Innocenti Declaration 1990, where four targets were adopted by the international community. Over 25 years later, all the targets require more attention, in particular the fourth Innocenti target which calls  for global action: "to enact imaginative legislation protecting the breastfeeding rights of working women and establish means for its enforcement’”.  Despite some advances, global monitoring on infant and young child feeding shows that this fourth Innocenti target remains the most challenging.  2015 is also a critical year as regards the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The SDGs should include an ‘exclusive breastfeeding target indicator’ to firmly position breastfeeding in the global health and nutrition arena—which could also serve as a proxy indicator for monitoring the status of maternity protection at national level. WABA is calling on governments to priortise this important indicator!   
 WBW 2015 Goals:
1) Galvanise multi-dimensional support from all sectors to enable women everywhere to work and breastfeed safely and adequately.
2) Promote actions by employers to become Family/Parent/Baby and Mother-Friendly, and to actively facilitate and support employed women to continue breastfeeding their children.
3) Inform people about the latest in global Maternity Protection entitlements, and raise awareness of the need to strengthen related national legislation and implementation.
4) Strengthen, facilitate and showcase supportive practices that enable women working in the informal sector to breastfeed.
5) Engage with target groups e.g. Trade Unions, Workers Rights Organisations, Human Rights agencies, Women’s, Occupational Health, and Youth groups, to protect the breastfeeding rights of women in the workplace.
Source: World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)