Maternity Protection Convention (Revised), 1952 is an

International Labour Organization The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and o ...

Convention. It was established in 1952, with the preamble stating:

Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to maternity protection,...

Modification

The convention revised Convention C3 on definition of women, to be also irrespective of race and

creed A creed, also known as a confession of faith, a symbol, or a statement of faith, is a statement of the shared beliefs of a community (often a religious community) in a form which is structured by subjects which summarize its core tenets. The ea ...

, not only of age, marriage status and nationality, and was subsequently revised in 2000 by Convention C183 on minimum condition of

maternity leave Parental leave, or family leave, is an employee benefit available in almost all countries. The term "parental leave" may include maternity, Paternity (law), paternity, and adoption leave; or may be used distinctively from "maternity leave" and ...

(from 12 weeks to 14 weeks) and

women's rights Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, ...

Ratifications

As of 2013, the convention had been ratified by 41 states. Subsequently, the treaty has been denounced by 17 of the ratifying states, some automatically due to ratification of conventions that trigger automatic denunciation of the 1952 treaty.

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Maternity ] A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of gestati ...

Motherhood Women's rights instruments Treaties concluded in 1952 Treaties entered into force in 1955 Treaties of the Bahamas Treaties of Bolivia Treaties of the military dictatorship in Brazil Treaties of Chile Treaties of Croatia Treaties of Ecuador Treaties of Equatorial Guinea Treaties of Ghana Treaties of Greece Treaties of Guatemala Treaties of Kyrgyzstan Treaties of the Libyan Arab Republic Treaties of the Mongolian People's Republic Treaties of Papua New Guinea Treaties of the Polish People's Republic Treaties of the Soviet Union Treaties of San Marino Treaties of Francoist Spain Treaties of Sri Lanka Treaties of Tajikistan Treaties of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Treaties of Uruguay Treaties of Uzbekistan Treaties of Zambia Treaties of Yugoslavia 1952 in labor relations 1952 in women's history {{International-law-stub