--- title: World Breastfeeding Week: Thousands of Women Will Breastfeed in Public description: Thousands of women in 176 countries raise awareness about breastfeeding canonical: https://time.com/3981187/world-breastfeeding-week/ author: Eliza Gray article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-01T16:41:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:15.252Z og:title: Thousands Will Breastfeed in Public for World Breastfeeding Week og:description: Women around the world raise awareness about breastfeeding og:url: https://time.com/3981187/world-breastfeeding-week/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Thousands Will Breastfeed in Public for World Breastfeeding Week twitter:description: Women around the world raise awareness about breastfeeding twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Thousands of Women Will Breastfeed in Public to Kick Off World Breastfeeding Week ## Video: The Truth About Egg Freezing [Watch (HLS stream): The Truth About Egg Freezing](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/A1nDxOli.m3u8) (8:41)  _Published 2015-07-16. Vicki Rokhlin, 28, is relying on her 14 frozen eggs to have children. But will they work?_ by [Eliza Gray](/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Aug 1, 2015 4:41 PM CUT by [Eliza Gray](/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Aug 1, 2015 4:41 PM CUT Thousands of mothers around the world will breastfeed together for one minute in public on Saturday, to raise awareness about breastfeeding. The worldwide event, called the “Big Latch On,” is part of World Breast Feeding week from Aug. 1 to Aug. 7, started by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. The annual event, launched in 1992, is a partnership of global organizations looking to promote breast feeding around the world. Each year, the week is organized around a theme, and the theme for 2015—”Breastfeeding and Work: Let’s Make It Work!”—is designed to help promote policies that make it easier for women to breastfeed and work at the same time. This year, the week will be celebrated 176 countries. Guy Ryder, director-general of the International Labour Organization, a specialized agency of the U.N., [has said](http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/who-we-are/ilo-director-general/statements-and-speeches/WCMS%5F348734/lang--en/index.htm "undefined") that the issue of maternity protections and work is a priority for improving gender equality around the world: “globally more than 800 million women workers, or 41%, still don’t have adequate maternity protection,” he said. 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