IBFAN PRESS RELEASE ARCHIVE

  • 25 May 2005: Outcome of the 58th World Health Assembly, Geneva 16-25 May 2005 - Babies need no longer wait.

  • 18 May 2005: Babies cannot wait - WHA delegates urged to support parents' rights to full information on possible contamination of powdered formulas for infants.

  • 13 January 2005: Responses to the tsunami disaster and infant feeding - do not send baby milk, support appropriate local responses.

  • 22 May 2004: IBFAN at the 57th World Health Assembly, 17-22 May 2004 - Overview

  • 21 May 2004: IBFAN interventions on infant feeding at the World Health Assembly, Geneva.

  • 13 May 2004: Baby food companies exposed as IBFAN presents evidence at UK Parliament.

  • 22 January 2004: IBFAN interventions on infant feeding and on WHO relations with other organisations at the WHO Executive Board meeting, Geneva.

  • 22 January 2004: NGOs decry industry-drive policy making - Food Industry Attempts to Derail WHO Initiative on Healthy Diets Rebuffed.

  • 21 January 2004: IBFAN interventions at WHO Executive Board discussion on obesity

  • 21 January 2004: Strategies used by industry to undermine WHO marketing requirements exposed in new IBFAN report.

  • 21 January 2004: IBFAN letter to the President of Brazil protesting about Nestlé's involvement in the 'Zero Hunger' Programme

  • 28 October 2003: Briefing paper launch - Building on Quicksand? The Global Compact, democratic governance and Nestlé.

  • 31 July 2003: Wyeth/SMA convicted of illegal infant formula advertising in the UK. "A cynical and deliberate breach of the Regulations” says Judge.

  • 10 July 2003 - IBFAN Letter to the UN Global Compact and the UN Global Compact's response.

  • 30 October 2002 - United Nations Inc.? Nations Unies et Cie.?
    Nestlé enters the UN Global Compact

  • 21 May 2002 - 55th World Health Assembly - Infant feeding issues

  • 10 May 2002 - How safe are infant formulas? The death of a one-week old formula-fed baby in Belgium

  • 17 January 2002 - IBFAN/CI statement to the World Health Organisation Executive Board on the draft Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding

  • 13 July 2001 - IBFAN's monitoring used by compilers of FTSE ethical investment index

  • 18 May 2001 - Science defeats baby food industry vested interests at the World Health Assembly.

  • 15 May 2001 - Multinational baby food companies Nestlé, Milupa, Abbott-Ross, Mead-Johnson and Wyeth are the worst violators of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes, says IBFAN.

  • May 2001 - Updates from the World Health Assembly

  • 2 April 2001 - WHO expert consultation on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding recommends 6 months

  • 22 March 2001 - Baby Milk Action Press Release - Mothers panic following new study on breastfeeding and heart disease

  • 16 January 2001 - WHO Executive Board Meeting updates

  • 23 November 2000 - Baby Milk Action Press Release - Members of the European Parliament shocked as Nestlé snubs Public Hearing on corporate responsibility.
  • 8 September 2000 - Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India Press Release - Nestle involved in misinformation to mothers in India

  • 30 July 2000 - Maternity Protection Convention and Recommendation 2000 - Maternity Protection Coalition Report

  • 5 June 2000 - ILO Conference update - Committee on Maternity Protection

  • 26 May 2000 - WHO suppresses critical debate at the WHO/UNICEF Technical Consultation on Infant and Young Child Feeding

  • 19 May 2000 - World Health Assembly 2000 - Statement by Consumers International and IBFAN

  • 28 January 2000 - WHO Executive Board Meeting in Geneva. Text of today's intervention by Dr. Arun Gupta on behalf of Consumers International/IBFAN