Traduction de «Legal protection mother and child » (Anglais → Français) :

162. Recalls children's right to health and, in particular, adolescents' right to sexual and reproductive health and stresses that the protection of maternal health must be an integral part of the future strategy on the rights of the child, which should promote living and working conditions suitable for pregnant and breastfeeding women and insist on compliance with the existing legislation protecting the rights of female workers, a ...[+++]s well as equal and universal access for all women to quality pre- and post-natal care in the public sector in order to reduce maternal and infant mortality and transmission of diseases from mother to child; stresses the vital importance that maternity leave has for a child's development, particularly on account of the child's bond with its mother not only during the early months following birth but also during the first years of its life;

6. Recalls children's right to health and, in particular, adolescents' right to sexual and reproductive health, and stresses that the protection of maternal health must be an integral part of the future strategy on the rights of the child, which should promote living and working conditions suitable for pregnant and breastfeeding women and insist on compliance with the existing legislation protecting the rights of female workers, as well as equal and un ...[+++]iversal access for all women to quality pre- and post-natal care in the public sector in order to reduce maternal and infant mortality and transmission of diseases from mother to child; stresses the vital importance that maternity leave has for a child's development, particularly on account of the child's bond with its mother not only during the early months following birth but also during the first years of its life;

159. Recalls children's right to health and, in particular, adolescents' right to sexual and reproductive health and stresses that the protection of maternal health must be an integral part of the future EU strategy on the rights of the child, which should promote living and working conditions suitable for pregnant and breastfeeding women and insist on compliance with the existing legislation protecting the rights of female workers ...[+++], as well as equal and universal access for all women to quality pre- and post-natal care in the public sector in order to reduce maternal and infant mortality and transmission of diseases from mother to child; stresses the vital importance that maternity leave has for a child's development, particularly on account of the child's bond with its mother not only during the early months following birth but also during the first years of its life;

24. Calls for detailed studies to be undertaken under the heading of 'Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources' forming part of the Fifth Framework Programme of Research and Technological Development in order to determine the potential long-term benefits of breastfeeding for health and immune defences; notes that the World Health Organisation recommends that babies be breastfed for at least the first six months of their lives, primarily to improve the ability of the immune system to protect against many diseases and also to encourage mother and ...[+++]child bonding and boost cognitive development; points out further that breastfeeding also benefits the mother's health because it corresponds to a physiological stage in the reproductive cycle;

[57] Case C-303/06 Coleman, judgment of 17 July 2008, where the Court of Justice ruled that Directive 2000/78/EC protected a mother of a disabled child from harassment and discrimination in employment, when the problems were due to the fact that the mother needed extra time off to take care of her child.

The Commission attaches the greatest importance to all measures designed to protect the health and safety of workers, and notably certain groups of particularly vulnerable workers such as is clearly the case of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding - all the more so because the risks to which they may be exposed are liable to damage not only their own health but also that of their unborn or newborn children, given that there is a very close physiological and indeed emotional lin ...[+++]k between mother and child.