UAE law requires mothers to breastfeed for first two years
by The Daily Eye Team February 18 2014, 3:14 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 26 secsSocial affairs minister warns it could mean that husbands sue wives who do not breastfeed The UAE’s federal national council added the breastfeeding clause to a children’s rights law.
The United Arab Emirates has passed a law requiring mothers tobreastfeed their children until they are two years old. The clause was added to a children’s rights law, but the social affairs minister, Mariam al-Roumi, said it raised the prospect of husbands suing wives who did not breastfeed.