Resources on maternity protection

  1. Nutrition Security and Maternity Protection (NSMP) through Exclusive and Continued Breastfeeding Promotion in the Workplace

    01 January 2013

    The NSMP Project aims to promote exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace to advance women’s rights to maternity protection and to improve nutrition security for the Filipino children. It is identified as one of the components of the Maternal and Young Child Nutrition Security in Asia (MYCNSIA) Project of the UNICEF which aim to position nutrition security in the policy and development agenda.

  2. Protecting Maternity in Cambodia’s Textile Factories

    14 July 2008

    Many women in Cambodia risk losing their jobs when they become pregnant. But most textile factories monitored by the ILO’s Better Factories Cambodia programme now offer maternity protection to their employees. For Ros Kimsreng, she now has the opportunity of keeping a good job and providing for her family’s future.