IBFAN'S SEVEN PRINCIPLES
- Infants and young children everywhere to have the right to the highest attainable standard of health.
- Families, and in particular women and children, have the right to access adequate and nutritious food and sufficient and affordable water.
- Women have the right to breastfeed and to make informed decisions about infant and young child feeding.
- Women have the right to full support to breastfeed for two years or more and to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months.
- All people have the right to access quality health care services and information free of commercial influence.
- Health workers and consumers have the right to be protected from commercial influence that may distort their judgment and decisions.
- People have the right to advocate for change that protects, promotes, and supports basic health, in international solidarity.