Du 11 au 29 septembre 2017, le Comité des droits de l’enfant (Comité CRC) a tenu sa 76e session à Genève. Le Comité a examiné les progrès réalisés dans la mise en œuvre de la Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant dans six pays...
Le 19 octobre 2017, le lancement de l’édition spéciale pour le 10e anniversaire du rapport Right to Food and Nutrition Watch a eu lieu au Palais des Nations, à Genève. Coordonné par FIAN International, co-organisé par IBFAN et d’autres OSC et...
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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...
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...
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...
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”...
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...
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...
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:...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
« 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
