L’allaitement est un geste naturel, mais les mères peuvent avoir besoin de soutien. Brochure résumant les sources de soutien disponibles en région genevoise et en France voisine. Pour les les mères, les parents, les professionnels de santé, et tous les partenaires concernés. Brochure développée en collaboration avec les acteurs clefs et grâce au soutien du […]
L’allaitement est la norme biologique en matière d’alimentation de l’enfant ; il est bénéfique non seulement pour la santé physique de l’enfant et de sa maman, mais aussi pour leur santé psychologique et les liens qu’ils développent ensemble. Il est dès lors crucial de soutenir les mères afin qu’elles le pratiquent aussi longtemps que possible.
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 reproductive systems are still immature. Even the healthy development of the foetus during intrauterine life can […]
Campaigns which challenge large corporations to act in socially responsible ways are not new. Since the 1970s, citizen action groups have been attempting to achieve change by means of public awareness raising, boycotts, shareholder resolutions, postcard mailings, court cases and other campaign strategies. At first, most of the corporations and business associations which were the […]
IBFAN developed a slideshow to help breastfeeding advocates from around the world understanding conflicts of interest to safeguard democratic & evidence-based health and nutrition governance. This slideshow was part a capacity building workshop led by IBFAN in December 2015 in London and was prepared by Judith Richter, recognized expert on public interest safeguards in the field of […]
Working document, based on ILO database on Maternity Protection, sorted region by region and country by country
Contributions to the legal building blocks of the Treaty regarding the scope, the state duty to protect and direct obligations for corporations
By Friends of the Earth Europe, Brot für die Welt (Social Service Agency of the Protestant Church in Germany), SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations), CIDSE (International Alliance of Catholic Development Agencies), IBFAN (International Baby Food Action Network), IBFAN-GIFA (Geneva Infant Feeding Association), Global Policy Forum
FIAN International and IBFAN’s joint input towards the elaboration of the General Comment on the Rights of Adolescents of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (March 2015). This contribution seeks to provide information and recommendations about the right to adequate food and nutrition of adolescents and related rights (e.g. the right to health, the […]
BPNI / IBFAN Asia’s latest publication “Formula for Disaster: weighing the impact of formula feeding Vs breastfeeding on environment” is out now. The path breaking publication aims to raise awareness of the positive impact of breastfeeding on our environment and throws light on the negative impact of formula feeding.
Rome, Utrecht, Heidelberg, Genève, Berlin, 8 octobre 2014 – La sécurité alimentaire et les droits humains demeurent fortement menacés par la concentration foncière, la mainmise des entreprises sur les systèmes alimentaires et l’incohérence des politiques, signale l’édition 2014 de l’Observatoire du droit à l’alimentation et à la nutrition, dont le lancement officiel aura lieu aujourd’hui, à […]