We are pleased to announce the winners for World Breastfeeding Week 2015 photo contest. To view the winners photo, please visit World Breastfeeding Week Website.
Congratulations to winner of WBW 2015 photo contest!
WABA Celebrates International Labour Day 2015
Labour rights are women’s rights too! On the occasion of the International Labour Day 2015, WABA restates the importance of upholding the rights of women workers. In the year 2000, Convention 183 by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) called for…
IBFAN-GIFA raises lack of compliance with the International Code and informs shareholders about the release of the movie Tigers at Nestlé’s AGM
At Nestlé’s latest Annual General Meeting, the Geneva Infant Feeding Association (IBFAN-GIFA) raised attention about the movie Tigers, based on the true story of a former Nestlé’s sales representative for baby foods, Mr. Aamir Raza, who resigned after becoming aware…
Physician’s Pledge To Promote, Protect And Support Breastfeeding
Join now, pledge to do your part to promote, protect and support optimal breastfeeding, to ensure that training of future physicians includes all evidence-based and necessary knowledge and skills, to provide leadership for the breastfeeding support team, and to work towards the…
Maternity and Paternity at Work
Law & Practice Around the World A Summary of ILO Policy Brief-2014 Overview The policy brief compares National laws of 185 countries with most recent ILO standards. It covers maternity leave, paternity leave, and parental leave, health protection at work, employment protection, nondiscrimination and child care.
Joint Statement in celebration of World Health Day
Food Safety The 2015 World Health Day (WHD) theme is “Food Safety.” From the World Health Organisation (WHO). Providing safe food for our children is imperative, and the simple act of breastfeeding provides a safe, clean, nourishing, and protective source…
FIAN/IBFAN joint submission on Adolescents’ Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition
This contribution seeks to provide information and recommendations about the right to adequate food and nutrition of adolescents and related rights
WABA YOUth video A Winning Goal For Life
WABA Youth produced a work-in-progress Youth video on the Winning Goal For Life! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0zVfffP7sk
WABA responds to UN Secretary-General’s call to Civil Society on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Comment of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action to the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Development Report The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), its Core Partners and allies believe that breastfeeding promotes and protects the physical and emotional health and…
Support Women’s Right to Breastfeed!
8 March 2015 – WABA celebrates International Women’s Day 2015: commemorating 20 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Discussions on this historic roadmap (which set the agenda for realizing women’s rights, signed by 189 governments in 1995)…