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World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a global network of individuals and organisations dedicated to the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding worldwide.

Annually, WABA coordinates and organises the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) between Aug 1-7. Since 2016, we have aligned our WBW campaign to United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We call this WBW-SDGs Campaign.

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Breastfeeding is key to sustainable development strategies post-pandemic, as it improves nutrition, ensures food security and reduces inequalities between and within countries. The theme is aligned with the thematic area 1 of the WBW-SDG 2030 campaign which highlights the links between breastfeeding and good nutrition, food security and reduction of inequalities.

#WBW2022 will focus on strengthening the capacity of actors that have to protect, promote and support breastfeeding across different levels of society. These actors make up the warm chain of support for breastfeeding. Target audiences including governments, health systems, workplaces and communities will be informed, educated and empowered to strengthen their capacity to provide and sustain breastfeeding-friendly environments for families in the post pandemic world.

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WHO and UNICEF recommend that children initiate breastfeeding within the first hour of birth and be exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months of life – meaning no other foods or liquids are provided, including water., From the age of 6 months, children should begin eating safe and adequate complementary foods while continuing to breastfeed for up to 2 years and beyond.

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WABA | WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK 2022, COMING SOON

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a global network of individuals and organisations dedicated to the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding worldwide. Annually, WABA coordinates and organises the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) between Aug...

Against warning labels on junk food in Mexico How Switzerland danced to the Nestlé tune

Mexico has implemented black STOP-style signs on unhealthy foods to combat the country’s rampant obesity trend. However, the project was met with fierce resistance from multinational companies and their host states. At the forefront: Nestlé and...

World Food Safety Day: who should be held accountable for the US baby deaths?

IBFAN has worked since its founding in 1979 to ensure optimal feeding for infants and young children, citizens who are most vulnerable to food safety hazards. For babies who are not breastfed, the contamination of commercial...

IBFANS´S SEVEN PRINCIPLES

1.-Infants and young children everywhere to have the right to the highest attainable standard of health.

2.- Families, and in particular women and children, to have the right to access adequate and nutritious food and sufficient and affordable water.

3.-Women have the right to breastfeed and to make informed decisions about infant and young child feeding.

4.-Women have the right to full support to breastfeed for two years or more and to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months.

5.-All people have the right to access quality health care services and information free of commercial influence.

6.-Health workers and consumers have the right to be protected from commercial influence which may distort their judgement and decisions.

7.-People have the right to advocate for change which protects, promotes and supports basic health, in international solidarity.

MATERNITY PROTECTION (click here for more articles)

State of Maternity Protection in 97 countries

An increasing number of women are entering the job market and they need maternity protection to make a balance between their productive and reproductive roles to take care of themselves, their children and their families…..

100 Years of maternity protection

IBFAN Position Paper on Maternity Protection at Work

This paper presents IBFAN’s position on maternity protection at work and the tools for advocacy needed to increase the implementation of measures
that enable mothers to participate as equals in the workplace while exercising their reproductive rights to breastfeed.

Breastfeeding after returning to work or study

Many women find ways to continue breastfeeding their baby. Employers and course providers have certain obligations towards breastfeeding women to support your return to work or study.

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