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WHA78

#WHA78 - World Health Assembly

WHA78: After 3 year struggle, Resolution on Digital Marketing of baby foods adopted!

Check below the statements from IBFAN during WHA78.

High levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and other toxic elements are still measured in baby milks and cereals

Toxic heavy metals are all around us, in bedrock and in the earth. Inorganic arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury are among these poisonous chemical elements. They can accumulate in soil and can leach into water…

Contaminants in Baby Foods

PFAS - Infant and Young Child Feeding and Chemical Residues

If there are PFAS in all water sources, there will be PFAS in soils, plants, vegetables, insects, animals, and human beings. If water is contaminated, all bodies are contaminated!

Greenfeeding

COP29 | Azerbaijan

GREENFEEDING (ECOFEEDING) MEANS HEALTHY LOCAL AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD

Greenfeeding starts with Breastfeeding which has a positive impact on our climate and environment.

Public Eye

PROTEST AT VEVEY:

MORE THAN 100,000 SIGNATURES AGAINST NESTLÉ’S DOUBLE STANDARD OVER ADDED SUGAR IN BABY FOOD

105,000 people have signed a petition calling on Nestlé to stop adding sugar to its baby food products marketed in lower-income countries. It was handed over today at the multinational’s headquarters in Vevey, where the NGOs Public Eye, IBFAN and EKO dumped the symbolic equivalent of 10 million sugar cubes, representing the added sugar consumed each day by babies fed with Cerelac cereals

PUBLIC EYE

Sugar in baby food

IBFAN AND PUBLIC EYE URGE SWISS GOVERNMENT TO INTERVENE, PETITION LAUNCHED

The release in April of the Public Eye/IBFAN exposé of how Nestlé markets Cerelac and Nido as beneficial for child development, despite containing high levels of added sugar have prompted widespread

OUR FOCUS AREAS

IBFAN'S SEVEN PRINCIPLES

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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, 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 that may distort their judgment and decisions.

7

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

NEWS IBFAN

Countries commit to regulate the digital marketing of formula milk and baby foods – WHA78

May 26, 2025

In a new resolution, Member States agreed to expand the provisions of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) to tackle the digital marketing of formula milk and baby foods.

IBFAN Statement on Gaza

May 17, 2025

After more than four decades working to prevent child illness, suffering and death, IBFAN is well aware of the pain that each loss causes. In more than 160 countries our network has worked in adverse conditions...

Side Event 78th WHA

May 15, 2025

The 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78)will be on the 19 -24 May, 2025, gathering almost 200 Ministers of Health in Geneva, at Palais des Nations. As every year it has been an important moment to review and planning the main...

IBFAN working to protect child health at the 78th World Health Assembly

May 4, 2025

In the face of the budgetary and political crisis following the USA withdrawal from WHO, IBFAN will be present once again at the WHA78 advocating that WHO remains strong on its core constitutional purpose to help governments protect the health...

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.

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.

100 years of maternity protection

100 years ago, the ILO adopted the first-ever international standard on maternity protection. Since that Convention, the definition of maternity protection has expanded and its importance has become more widely appreciated – including as an essential element in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of good health, gender equality, decent work and economic growth. But, despite this progress, many mothers and mothers-to-be still face serious challenges in the workplace.

VIDEO ‘100 years of maternity protection’, from the channel International Labour Organization, published on YouTube on 8/11/2019.

The IBFAN network is a global coalition formed by nearly 200 citizen groups in over 100 countries

Learn more about the IBFAN network in various parts of the world. Access the following websites or social networks, and soon we will have more links here:

WHA78: After 3 year struggle, Resolution on Digital Marketing of baby foods adopted!

High levels of arsenic, cadmium, lead and other toxic elements are still measured in baby milks and cereals

PFAS - Infant and Young Child Feeding and Chemical Residues

GREENFEEDING (ECOFEEDING) MEANS HEALTHY LOCAL AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD

MORE THAN 100,000 SIGNATURES AGAINST NESTLÉ’S DOUBLE STANDARD OVER ADDED SUGAR IN BABY FOOD

IBFAN AND PUBLIC EYE URGE SWISS GOVERNMENT TO INTERVENE, PETITION LAUNCHED

OUR FOCUS AREAS

IBFAN'S SEVEN PRINCIPLES

Click on the images or click here for more information

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, 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 that may distort their judgment and decisions.

7

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

NEWS IBFAN

Countries commit to regulate the digital marketing of formula milk and baby foods – WHA78

IBFAN Statement on Gaza

Side Event 78th WHA

IBFAN working to protect child health at the 78th World Health Assembly

MATERNITY PROTECTION

State of Maternity Protection in 97 countries

IBFAN Position Paper on Maternity Protection at Work

Breastfeeding after returning to work or study

100 years of maternity protection

The IBFAN network is a global coalition formed by nearly 200 citizen groups in over 100 countries

Learn more about the IBFAN network in various parts of the world. Access the following websites or social networks, and soon we will have more links here:

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