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IBFAN´s Seven Principles
IBFAN member groups include consumer organisations, health workers’ associations, parents' groups and groups in the social justice movement. Each group is autonomous and raises its own funds, with the assistance of IBFAN's eight Regional Coordinating Offices, and in accordance with the Seven Principles of IBFAN:
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Infants everywhere to have the right to the highest attainable standard of health.
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Families, and in particular women and children, to have the right to access adequate and nutritious food and water. |
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Women have the right to breastfeed and to make informed decisions about infant and young child feeding.
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Women have the right to full support to breastfeed for two years or more and to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months. |
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All people have the right to access quality health care services and information free of commercial influence. . |
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Health workers and consumers have the right to be protected from commercial influence which may distort their judgement and decisions. |
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People have the right to advocate for change which protects, promotes and supports basic health, in international solidarity. |
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(Revised at the IBFAN Coordinating Council Meeting, Penang, October 2010)
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