2020 Status Report on the National Implementation of the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) launched the 2020 Status Report that highlights which countries have implemented measures required by the International...
A recent study by Hacer Tanrikulu et al. (2020) reveals the impact of marketing practices of the breastmilk substitutes industry on public health policy in the USA. In the USA, early nutrition is compromised in the first two years...
In brief: Current recommendations are to initiate or maintain breastfeeding and, if mother-baby separation is necessary, to give pumped breast milk. Immunologic properties transfered to baby through breastfeeding alpha-Lactalbumin (variant) alpha-lactoglobulin alpha2-macroglobulin (like) ß-defensin-1 Bifidobacterium bifidum Carbohydrate Casein CCL28...
The La Leche League International Board has issued a media release about Continuing to Nurse Your Baby Through Coronavirus (2019-nCoV; COVID-19) and Other Respiratory Infections.All of of LLLI resources about breastfeeding and coronavirus are now collated here: https://www.llli.org/coronavirus-resources/ The media...
Feb 2020 – Civil society NGOs attending WHO’s Executive Board meeting ahead of the May World Health Assembly are protesting against a new Decision – drafted by WHO and to be debated now – proposing that in an effort...
On September 16 2019, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) conveyed a special celebratory event “30 years of children’s rights: Where we are and where we want to be” at the Palais des Nations...
Laureates from the Right Livelihood Foundation will be in Europe. The conference will consist of two elements: an internal discussion among the Laureates (on 29th and 30th of October and 1st November), and a number of public thematic events...
On 9 May 2016, WHO, UNICEF and IBFAN had the pleasure to hold an evening of discussion on national implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and subsequent relevant WHA resolutions at Geneva Press Club. Watch the event podcast on http://new.livestream.com/GvaPressClub/Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is...
The report Right to Food and Nutrition Watch was published on October 2015. Several IBFAN members, namely Patti Rundall, Lida Lhotska, Marcos Arana, and Xaviera Cabada, contributed to it. In her article entitled The ‘Business of Malnutrition’: The Perfect...
The long-running debate about how WHO interacts with corporations is coming to crisis point. The Framework proposed by WHO fails to deliver adequate guidance on how to discern which relationships are appropriate, and more specifically for guidance on issues related...
