23/10/2007
Every minute of every day, a woman dies needlessly in pregnancy or childbirth. With nearly 60 per cent of the world's women of childbearing age in the labour force in 2006, the importance of paid work in the lives of so many women makes maternity protection at work a key to safeguarding the health and economic security of women and their children. A new ILO report to be presented at an international conference in London on 18 October reviews the progress and priorities in the world of work to ensure women's rights to safe maternity.

• Read more