“I am not against working women but there are seven laws on working women. We cannot talk about working women here and ignore stay-at-home mothers.”
Source/Credit: The National
By Ola Salem | January 21, 2014
ABU DHABI: The Federal National Council has passed a clause in the Child Rights law requiring mothers to breastfeed – despite concerns from a minister.
The council’s session on Tuesday continued a marathon debate on the legislation, during which the Minister of Social Affairs, Mariam Al Roumi, said such a law could lead to husbands suing their wives if they did not breastfeed.
“This part of the law can be a burden,” she said. “If the law forced women to breastfeed, this could lead to new court cases.”
Salem Al Ameri (Abu Dhabi) insisted that breastfeeding was a right for all children, as mentioned in Islam.
Dr Amal Al Qubaisi (Abu Dhabi) said that because labour laws already allow working women to take time to breastfeed, adding the requirement to the legislation showed consistency.
The clause was added to the law once it was passed to the council’s health, labour and social affairs committee for review.
Sultan Al Sammahi (Fujairah), a member of the committee, said it was the right of all children to be breast fed up to the age of 2.
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