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IBFAN Written Contribution to the 3rd Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on TNCs and OBEs with respect to human rights
The Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with respect to human rights will meet for the 3rd time, from 23 to 27 October at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva. The IGWG had published earlier...
CESCR General Comment No. 24 on State Obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the context of business activities: restricting marketing and advertising of certain goods to protect public health
Released last August, the General Comment No. 24 (2017) adopted by the CESCR Committee provided an important clarification on State Obligations in reaction to the growing impact of business activities on the enjoyment of specific Covenant rights. After the Statement...
Lancement de la 11ème édition de Briser les règles, étendre les règles 2017 !
En septembre 2017, IBFAN-ICDC a lancé son 11e rapport de suivi mondial Briser les règles, étendre les règles (Breaking the Rules, Stretching the Rules, BTR) 2017. Le BTR 2017 est une compilation des pratiques de marketing du monde entier...
Happy 25th World Breastfeeding Week!
The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) joins the rest of the world to commemorate the 25th World Breastfeeding Week from the 1st to 7th August 2017. This year’s theme is “Sustaining Breastfeeding: Building Alliances without Conflicts of Interest”...
The Concluding Observations of the CRC and the CESCR Committees put breastfeeding in the spotlight
From May 15 to June 2, 2017, the Committee on the Rights of the Child held its 75th Session in Geneva, while the 61st Session of the Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was held between May 29 and...
IBFAN tackles corporate influence in global health governance at the 70th World Health Assembly
In May 2017, delegates from IBFAN-GIFA, Baby Milk Action/IBFAN UK and FIAN International advocated under IBFAN accreditation for increased corporate accountability and effective safeguards against the undue corporate influence in global health governance at the 70th World Health Assembly...
150th AGM of Nestlé: will the new CEO represent a real change of generation?
Human Rights Programme Officer Ms. Camille Selleger, from IBFAN-GIFA, took the floor at the 150th Annual General Meeting of Nestlé last April 6, 2017, and addressed directly her speech to the new CEO of Nestlé, Mr. Ulf Mark Schneider:...
IBFAN-GIFA at the Salon Bébé et Moi
The Bébé et Moi fair took place this year at Palexpo, in Geneva, from the 7th to the 9th of April. Parents-to-be, parents and grandparents came to the 3-day fair and found a high number of stands with useful materials,...
IBFAN à la 140e réunion du Conseil exécutif de l’OMS (23 janvier-1er février 2017)
La réunion du Conseil exécutif de l’OMS a débuté aujourd’hui (23 janvier) et se poursuivra jusqu’au 1er février 2017. Une grande partie de cette semaine sera consacrée à des réunions à huis clos pour l’élection du nouveau directeur général...
CRC session 74: Post-session report on Committee’s recommendations related to breastfeeding
The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) held its 74th Session in Geneva from January 16 to February 3, 2017, and reviewed the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 8 countries: Barbados, Central...
IBFAN submission on the human rights implications of the widespread use of hazardous pesticides
The rise in quantities of pesticides used over the past 50 years is indeed alarming. Infants and young children are among the most sensitive to pesticide exposures because of their early stages of development; their body organs and as...
Dossier spécial sur les activités de Nestlé par Le Courrier – 2 décembre 2016
« 2016 marque un anniversaire important pour la firme veveysane. L’occasion de faire le point sur ses méthodes de gestion souvent contestables, loin de l’image lisse que renvoient les rapports annuels de Nestlé. » Le Courrier, 2 décembre 2016 Dans un dossier spécial...
CRC session 73 / CESCR session 59: Recommendations related to breastfeeding
From 13 to 30 September 2016, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) held its 73rd Session in Geneva, while the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR Committee) held its 59th session from 19...
Breastfeeding is a matter of human rights, say UN experts, urging action on formula milk
On 22 November 2016, a group of United Nations experts constituted by the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Right to Food, Right to Health, the Working Group on Discrimination against Women in law and in practice, and the Committee on...
Open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights / Second session, 24-28 October 2016
On 24 October 2016, the second session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises (IGWG) opened at the UN in Geneva. The Working Group was established in 2014 by Human Rights Council Resolution...
Written contribution from CIDSE, Friends of the Earth Europe, Brot für die Welt, SOMO and IBFAN-GIFA to the IGWG on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights for their second session (24 to 28 October 2016)
This submission by CIDSE, Friends of the Earth Europe, Brot für die Welt, SOMO and IBFAN-GIFA focuses on three core elements of a future treaty: 1. Adequate access to remedy 2. Effective enforcement mechanisms 3. The Treaty and the...
Conférence régionale pour les lauréats de Right Livelihood en Europe – 28 octobre au 2 novembre 2016
Des lauréats de la Right Livelihood Foundation seront présents en Europe. La conférence comprendra deux éléments : une discussion interne entre les lauréats (les 29 et 30 octobre et le 1er novembre) et un certain nombre d’événements thématiques publics...
UN expert on food reiterates the importance of protecting breastfeeding against undue marketing, and calls for adequate safeguards to protect public policymaking from corporate influence
In August 2016, the Special Rapporteur on the right fo food, Ms Hilal Elver, presented her annual report to the General Assembly. The International Baby Food Action Network welcomes this comprehensive report which addresses the major underlying factors affecting nutrition, including...
IBFAN-GIFA advocates for sound management of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals and breastfeeding as a renewable resource at the CRC Day of General Discussion on Children’s Rights and the Environment
(picture: UNICEF) On 23 September 2016, on behalf of IBFAN, IBFAN-GIFA took part in the 2016 Day of General Discussion of the Committee on the Rights of the Child which topic was Children’s Rights and the Environment. Read IBFAN-GIFA...
IBFAN short report on the situation of infant and young child feeding in New Zealand
On 15 and 16 September 2016, the Committee of the Rights of the Child reviewed the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in New Zealand. On this occasion, IBFAN submitted a short report highlighting the main...
Allaitement et développement durable : nos enfants nous remercieront !
Genève, septembre 2016 Cette année, le thème international choisi pour la semaine mondiale de l’allaitement est « L’allaitement maternel, une clef pour le développement durable ». En effet, les recherches récentes prouvent qu’allaiter constitue un véritable geste éco-bio-logique.
IBFAN contributes to the CRC Day of General Discussion on Children’s Rights and the Environment
Infants and young children are the first victims of pollution and climate change. The negative impacts of pollution and climate change affect all people, but especially the world’s most vulnerable population: newborns, infants and young children, whose immune and...
72nd session of the Committee of the Child: Countries recommended to improve Code implementation and enforcement
The 72nd Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC Committee) took place in Geneva from 17 May to 3 June 2016. The Committee reviewed the progress of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights...
2nd World Breastfeeding Conference – 11-14 Dec 2016
The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in partnership with the Department of Health, Government of Republic of South Africa, proudly hosts the Second World Breastfeeding Conference (WBC) 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Conference will call for committed action and...
IBFAN Codex submission on biofortification
The term biofortification or agrofortification are terms that obscure and hide the means by which the food is altered. A more precise definition would state that the food is genetically altered by means of a technological industrial process.The fact...
73rd session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child – 13 to 30 September 2016
In 2016, the Committee on the Rights of the Child will review the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the following countries: Estonia, Nauru, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Suriname. For more...
2nd World Breastfeeding Conference – 11 to 14 December 2016
The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) in partnership with the Department of Health, Government of Republic of South Africa, proudly hosts the Second World Breastfeeding Conference (WBC) 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Conference will call for committed action and...
L’indépendance et l’intégrité de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé ne sont pas négociables
Genève, le 24 mai 2016 – Les organisations de la société civile et les mouvements sociaux appellent les États membres de l’OMS à ne pas compromettre l’indépendance, l’intégrité et la crédibilité de l’OMS lors des négociations sur le Cadre...
Whose health? The crucial negotiations for the World Health Organization’s future
By Lida Lhotska (IBFAN-GIFA) and Arun Gupta (BPNI/IBFAN Asia) Concerns surround the possible adoption of a new World Health Organization policy of engagement with non-state entities – which could mean big business – and potential conflicts of interest, Arun Gupta...