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…
New EU rules will trick parents into buying expensive and unnecessary products that will fuel the obesity crisis
Health advocates from across Europe have decried new rules on baby formulas and foods that are being forced through by the European Commission with no time for proper consultation and expert reflection. The EU Commission claims that its proposals are…
A Conference on ‘Expansion of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to Neonatal Wards (Neo-BFHI)’ is taking place 19-20 May 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden
he conference and workshops are organized by the Nordic and Quebec Neo-BFHI Working Group to support, promote and protect breastfeeding of preterm, low birth weight and sick infants requiring neonatal intensive/special care around the world. The Conference Purpose? To prepare…
Getting to Zero: Maximising Infant HIV-free Survival through Breastfeeding
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) celebrates World AIDS Day on 1 December each year with colleagues and friends to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic and emphasise the critical need for a committed, meaningful and sustained response.…
DISAPPOINTING OUTCOMES OF NEGOTIATIONS ON NUTRITION STATEMENT BY CSO DELEGATION TO THE OPEN ENDED WORKING GROUP OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUTRITION 2
Governments met in the FAO Headquarters in Rome from 10-12 October to finalize the Rome Political Declaration and the Framework for Action for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2). After 22 years, civil society organizations (CSOs) were expecting significant…
10 Years of the Right to Adequate Food Guidelines – Progress, Obstacles and the Way Ahead Civil Society Synthesis Paper for the 41st Session of the UN Committee on World Food Security
This paper is a product of a broad civil society consultation process, facilitated by the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition, with the political support of the member organizations of the Civil Society Mechanism to the Committee…