Resources on maternity protection

  1. © GMB Akash / icddr,b 2022
    Greater investment in care could create almost 300 million jobs

    07 March 2022

    Plugging existing, significant, gaps in care services could generate almost 300 million jobs and create a continuum of care that would help to alleviate poverty, encourage gender equality, and support care for children and the elderly, says new ILO report released ahead of International Women’s Day.

  2. © Vitor Marinho 2022
    ILO reaches ratification target for landmark social security Convention

    08 November 2021

    Paraguay has become the 60th country to ratify the flagship ILO social security Convention, No.102, reaching a target set in 2012 by the ILO’s Governing Body.

  3. Germany ratifies the Maternity Protection Convention

    30 September 2021

  4. © Stuart Price / UN Photo 2022
    More than 500 billion dollars a year needed to ensure basic levels of social protection worldwide

    25 November 2019

    A new ILO report highlights critical financing gaps in social protection and provides policy recommendations on how these gaps could be closed.

  5. San Marino ratifies the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183)

    19 June 2019

  6. Mauritius ratifies the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 (No. 183)

    14 June 2019

  7. Towards better, improved employment-related social security in Indonesia

    08 September 2017

    Building greater trust among relevant stakeholders, optimizing benefits adequacy, re-profiling members of social security for workers as well as synchronizing existing regulations were the four recommendations from the joint evaluation seminar conducted by the ILO and the Ministry of Manpower in Jakarta on 7 September.

  8. Peru ratifies the Maternity Protection Convention (No. 183)

    19 May 2016

  9. Switzerland ratifies the Maternity Protection Convention (No. 183)

    04 June 2014

    Switzerland became the 29th member State to ratify this essential instrument for equality which guarantees protection for women workers during maternity

  10. © Wang Zhao / AFP 2022
    Maternity protection makes headway amid vast global gaps

    13 May 2014

    Despite progress in maternity benefits and a trend supporting paternity leave, an ILO report finds most women around the world are still not protected at work.