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| "Breastfeeding
at the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural
Rights.
In
2013, IBFAN-GIFA submitted to the CESCR five alternative
reports on the situation of infant and young child
feeding in Azerbaijan,
Denmark
(50th session), Austria,
Belarus
and Egypt
(51st pre-session). The reports aim at sensitizing
the Committee on the issue of infant and young
child feeding and its importance for the full
implementation of the rights enshrined in the
International Covenant, in particular the right
to health and food. The IBFAN-GIFA team presented
the reports orally at a meetings of the CESCR
with NGOs."
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information
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| IBFAN
Africa Advanced Infant and Young Child Feeding Policy
and Practice Course
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Venue:
Airport Grand Hotel; Johannesburg
(South Africa)
Date: 13
– 26 October 2013
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information
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| New
IBFAN Comments on WHO's Plan of Action on NCDs and
Conflicts of interest More
information |
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| New
comments on WHO’s engagement with non-State actors
More
information |
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| Links
on conflicts of interest More
information |
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| Call
for input on UN Forum On Business And Human Rights
Deadline 12 April 2013. |
United
Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights States,
business, civil society and other stakeholders can
submit suggestions for the 2013 United Nations Forum
on Business and Human Rights. Submissions may be
sent to forumbhr@ohchr.org
by 12 April 2013.
More
information |
| 61st
Session - Short Report on UN Committee on the Rights
of the Child |
The
61st session of the Committee on the Rights of the
Child (CRC Committee) took place from 17 September
to 5 October 2012 in Geneva. The Committee reviewed
the progress of the implementation of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child in 7 countries: Albania,
Andorra, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada,
Liberia and Namibia.
Link
to the document
More
information |
| GAIN
–industry’s Trojan Horse fails to enter WHO’s
policy setting process |
The
failure of GAIN (the Global Alliance for Improved
Nutrition) to obtain official relations status with
the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an NGO, has
been warmly welcomed by health campaigners and the
International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN).
GAIN is a new type of public private entity which
claims to works to tackle malnutrition.
More
information |
IBFAN-GIFA
Newsletter
Second Issue! |
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In this issue you will find
information about the World Breastfeeding Conference,
CRC Committee, WHO reform, Right to Food and Nutrition
Watch, Contaminants in baby foods, Maternity Protection,
World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) in Europe and more!
Open
the Newsletter
More
information
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ICDC
- Legal Update
January 2013 |
In
the new number you can find information about the
legal regulation in South Africa and Kenya and different
activities all around the world.
Link
to the document
More
information |
| Reports
and briefings on Contaminants in Baby Foods (and
Product Recall List) |
Is
now available the Recall List updated up to November
2012.
Link
to the list
More
information |
| The
Convention on the Rights of the Child |
IBFAN
Reports on the situation of Breastfeeding Guinea,
available in english
and french.
More reports |
Breastfeeding
in the Post Millennium Development
Goals Era |
As
the target date for the Millennium
Development Goals approaches, the
international community has started discussions
around the “Post 2015 development agenda”. To
this end IBFAN participated in the e-consultation
on ‘Hunger, Food
and Nutrition Security’. Our submission
to this process reiterated the importance of breastfeeding
and infant and young child feeding for reaching
the MDGs, and the importance of protection, promotion
and support of breastfeeding in the post 2015 development
agenda.
Read full submission HERE
To make a submission follow this
link |
| The
Convention on the Rights of the Child |
IBFAN
Reports on the situation of Breastfeeding Malta
and Luxembourg.
More reports |
| IBFAN
Comments on SUN |
IBFAN
has prepared a Discussion
Paper on the Scaling
Up Nutrition (SUN) initiative outlining
our concerns about the role of businesses.
In view of these concerns
IBFAN and many of its allies cannot support the
SUN initiative.
However, we are open to discuss our recommendations
with the SUN leadership, governments and public
interest groups The paper can be accessed on this
link. |
| Yes
Medela violates the code! |
IBFAN-ICDC
prepared this document about Medela and their continue
work on the marketing of their products and the
International Code violations.
Link |
Allaitement
Actualités
N° 48 49 50 51 52 and 53 |
Now
available the Breastfeeding Briefs into french.
See
all Editions |
New
edition!
Breastfeeding Briefs N°54 |
Pacifiers
and breastfeeding.
Read || More
Editions |
| IBFAN
submission to the OHCHR study on the children’s
right to health |
| IBFAN
contributed to the upcoming Study on the child’s
right to health by OHCHR, through a submission that
highlighted key issues related to infant and young
child feeding, and to breastfeeding in particular,
and their relation to the right of the child to
the highest attainable standard of health. Read
the full submission |
| IBFAN
and 20 NGOs Call for Improvements in WHO-NGO Relations |
| IBFAN
and 20 other NGOs worldwide call on WHO to distinguish
between public interest and business interest NGOs.
Read the Memo to the Director General Link |
| Why
IBFAN Has Not Signed on the Civil Society Pledge
of ‘A Renewed Promise’ Initiative |
IBFAN
finds problematic the inclusion of the private sector
due to conflicts of interest that risk jeopardizing
the child’s rights to survival and development.
Read
IBFAN’s full response |
| Civil
Society Organizations Call for a Turnaround in Global
Decision-Making on Food and Nutrition |
The
5th Right to Food and Nutrition Watch, launched
the 25th September, analyses the increasing influence
and control of agribusiness and financial actors
on food and nutrition. It alerts on a worrying trend
of global public private partnerships (PPP) that
increasingly sideline lessons learned about the
social determinants of nutrition and bypass decision-making
of intergovernmental institutions.
Read More |
| Stop
Press! The latest on Contaminants in baby Food |
USA
bans BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups, but not
in all food contact materials for childre
(Update September 20 2012) Link |
| The
ICDC will present a NEW Book ! Available Oct
2012 |
| Complying
with the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk
Substitutes and subsequent WHA resolutions -
A Guide for Regulators and
Compliance Staff - More
information |
| Dr
Gandhi Vi Demanya (1945—2012) |
| Dr
Gandhi, founder and coordinator of the IBFAN group
Ghana Infant Nutrition Action Network (GINAN), passed
away on 20 August 2012. Read the tribute and a brief
story of his life here. |
| The
Convention on the Rights of the Child |
IBFAN
Reports on the situation of Breastfeeding Albania,
Armenia,
Austria
(see also Annex
Violations), Canada
and Niue
islands.
More reports |
| Contaminants
in Baby Food - Recall List update |
| Now
available the ICDC´s Product Recall List updated
to September 2012.
Link |
| Report
on the Situation of Infant and Young Child Feeding
in LIBERIA and NAMIBIA |
The
Convention on the Rights of the Child - Session
61 - September 2012.
Link |
| WHO
Reform and Public Interest Safeguards: An Historical
Perspective |
Article
by Judith Richter publicated on Social Medicine
(Volume 6, Number 3, March 2012).
Link || More
resources on Sponsorship and conflict of interest |
| Last
WHA Resolution on Maternal, infant and young child
nutrition |
| Here
is available the last WHA Resolution 65.6 adopted
subsequent to the International Code. Link |
| New
ICDC Legal Update! |
Now
is available the last number of the ICDC Legal Update:
July 2012.
Read || More
Editions |
IBFAN-GIFA
Newsletter
First Issue! |
| GIFA’s
recent yearly General Assembly (30 May 2012) suggested
that IBFAN-GIFA prepare a short Newsletter with
information from the GIFA office, on a twice-yearly
basis. We hope that such a Newsletter will serve
as a means of communicating our most recent and
important activities, both with our membership and
with other colleagues around the world. Open
the Newsletter
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| USA
interferes with national legislation |
IBFAN
is now able to reveal how the US Government tried
to interfere with the Vietnamese Government's legislative
process as its National Assembly debated new moves
to protect babies.
"It might happen in your country too; in
Brasil, in South Africa, anywhere where important
legislation is under discussion. Share this news
and send us your findings, your concerns."
Read
the PRESS RELEASE
See
the US letter |
| 60TH
COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD |
| Governments
to Strengthen Their Laws To Fully Comply With International
Code. Read
|| More
Reports |
| ICDC
Alerts |
Now
available two Alerts: What
in the world is APIYCNA? And why is it a danger
to breastfeeding? and
Double Victory for breastfeeding.
See More Alerts |
New
Report!
Look What They Are Doing 2012 |
| The
new Report is about the Monitoring Code Compliance
in Alberta. Read
|| More
Reports |
| IBFAN-GIFA
brings together the Special Rapporteur on the Right
to Food and CRC Committee, to discuss the right
to adequate food |
| Updated
June 2012. Click
here to read |
| Press
release 31 May 2012 |
| World
Health Assembly Resolution tackles conflicts of
interest. Read |
| Report
on the Situation of Infant and Young Child Feeding
in TURKEY and ALGERIA |
The
Convention on the Rights of the Child - Session
60 - June 2012.
Link |
| Nestlé
and Food Safety: discrepancy between the company’s
public statements and actual practices |
| Watch
a clip from a Swiss TV station featuring the story
of a court case brought against Nestlé by a former
employee who served as Corporate Food Safety Manager
and Assistant Vice-President.
Link
/ Video |
| Human
Rights, children and business; a joint submission
by IBFAN and FIAN, May 2012 |
| Click
here to read |
| Report
on the Situation of Infant and Young Child Feeding
in CYPRUS |
The
Convention on the Rights of the Child - Session
60 - June 2012.
Link |
| Cronobacter/Enterobacter
sakazakii infections: Time for Action |
Article
published on the March issue of "Middle East
Food". Convener by IBFAN Global Working Group
on Chemical and Microbiological Contamination of
Infant Feeding Products (Geneva - Switzerland).
Link |
| All
about IBFAN - new video! |
| Thanks
to IBFAN's Geneva Office, GIFA, we are pleased to
share this new video which explains the importance
of IBFAN's work.
The film is available in three languages: English,
Spanish and French. See
the video |
| Open
letter to the Geneva Health Forum |
The
2012 edition of the Geneva Health Forum will once
again be sponsored by private companies such as
Nestlé and Pfizer, well known Code violators. IBFAN-GIFA
reacted by sending an open letter to the president.
Read the letter |
| Maternity
protection: A new ILO Resource Package, in collaboration
with IBFAN-GIFA |
| In
April 2012 the ILO published the “Maternity Protection
Resource Package. From Aspiration to Reality for
All”, which results from its collaboration with
the ILO International Training Centre, UNICEF, WHO,
UNFPA, UN Women and IBFAN-GIFA. Link |
| Latest
news form the Committee on the Rights of the child |
During
its 59th session, the CRC Committee urged governments
to improve exclusive breastfeeding and enforce the
International Code.
Read more |
| The
Special Rapporteur on the right to food urges companies
to comply with the Code |
| The
December 2011 report by UN Special Rapporteur (SR)
on the right to food focused on nutrition as an
integral part of the right to food. Breastfeeding
is key for the right of the child to an adequate
diet, and an important strategy to combat undernutrition,
micronutrient deficiencies and prevent obesity.
The report clarifies the implications of the right
to adequate food in terms of responsibilities of
the infant food industry, which is urged to comply
fully with the International Code and abstain from
promoting breastmilk substitutes.
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more |
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STOP PRESS!!
Sep
25 2012: The
Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012.
WHO DECIDES ABOUT GLOBAL
FOOD AND NUTRITION?
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Jul
20 2012: USA
interferes with national legislation
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May
31 2012: World
Health Assembly Resolution tackles
conflicts of interest
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Nov
26 2011: The
Business of malnutrition: breaking down trade rules
to profit from the poor
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INFORMATION |
EUROPEAN
UNION BANS USE OF BPA IN FEEDING BOTTLES
January 19 2011
Update
USA bans BPA
in baby bottles and sippy cups, but not in all
food contact materials for children
September 26 2012
1-
Sweden bans BPA in packaging of food for children
under the age of 3
2- Has the EU already taken note of Swedish
criticism?
June 12 2012
EU BAN ON USE OF BPA IN FEEDING BOTTLES ENTERS
INTO FORCE
March 20 2011
CHINA
FOLLOWS WITH BAN ON BPA BOTTLES
June
01 2011
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more...
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HEALTH
FOR ALL
Whatever
happened to Health for All?
Ups and downs of protection of breastfeeding,
regulation of transnational corporations and
Health for All
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