IBFAN is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the 1998 Right Livelihood Award (RLA). The Award, commonly known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, was presented recently in Stockholm, Sweden. IBFAN shares the award with a Chilean activist, an American environmentalist and two peace workers from the war-torn Balkans. “IBFAN’s untiring efforts in the promotion, protection and support of breastfeeding have been an important contribution to infant and young child health and survival. In addition, the organization’s constant monitoring of company compliance with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes indicates that much remains to be done to protect parents and health professionals from commercial pressures to feed infants artificially.”