IBFAN – International Baby Food Action Network

EB156

EB156 – Geneva – 3–11 February 2025

WHO Member States call for the regulation of Digital marketing of baby foods

IBFAN intervened during this Executive Board on the Resolution, Emergencies, Non-Communicable Diseases, Pollution, Universal healthcare, and WHO governance, stressing the need to protect WHO’s independence and integrity through increased Member States’ contributions.

WHA78 - EB156 (2025)

GETTING READY FOR 78TH WHA 2025: DIGITAL MARKETING AND NUTRITION TARGETS

IBFAN is supporting Brazil’s Zero Draft Resolution on Digital Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes that we hope will be adopted with no weakening at the 78th World Health Assembly next May.
IBFAN is also supporting a Resolution calling for an extension of the Nutrition targets.

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

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

WHO Member States call for the regulation of Digital marketing of baby foods

February 11, 2025

In the face of the budgetary and political crisis following the USA withdrawal from WHO, the EB 156 remained strong in its core constitutional purpose to help governments protect the health of all citizens and recommended forwarding a Draft Resolution...

WHO to discuss regulation of Digital Marketing of breastmilk substitutes at the 156th Executive Board Meeting

January 31, 2025

Brazil is leading countries like Mexico, Norway, Lesotho lead initiative to curb abusive digital marketing practices targeting breastmilk substitutes.

IBFAN PARTICIPATES IN THE SERIES OF POLICY DEBATES HOSTED BY THE GENEVA GLOBAL HEALTH HUB (G2H2) – AHEAD OF WHO EB 156

January 15, 2025

January 15, 2025 (Updated January 29, 2025) More about this session: 20-24 January 2025 – Ahead of the 156th session of the WHO Executive Board (Geneva, on Feb 3-11th), this series of G2H2 policy debates offers a platform for civil society...

THAILAND BANS ADVERTISING FOR TODDLER MILK

December 31, 2024

With new rules, Thailand joins three dozen countries that have taken steps to regulate toddler milk ads. The action follows a ProPublica investigation that detailed how the U.S. helped the formula industry fight regulation in 2017.

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:

WHO Member States call for the regulation of Digital marketing of baby foods

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

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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