Baby Milk Action wrote to the Chair of the Methodist Church Joint Advisory Committee on the Ethics in Investment (JACEI) on 6 August 2015 regarding the JACEI report on the Church’s £1 million investment in Nestlé. The JACEI report showed that engagement…
Holding Nestle to account
Nestlé Chairman confirms formula marketing violations are Nestlé policy Baby Milk Action attends Nestlé shareholder meetings, in recent years alongside partners from IBFAN-GIFA. We raise ongoing violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent, relevant Resolutions…
Brexit and what it means for our work protecting infant and young child health
Click here to download this briefing as a pdf file. The UK has now voted in the referendum on its membership of the European Union (EU). There are pros and cons to any decision and one so momentous for the…
Brexit – some personal thoughts
Baby Milk Action has decided not to publish a position on Brexit, but here’s a short summary of my personal view. With just one day to go before the vote tomorrow, its shocking that most of the debate has revolved around…
Protecting the right to Education against commercialisation
“The Special Rapporteur looks with concern at the rapid increase in the number of private education providers and the resulting commercialization of education, and examines the negative effects of this on the norms and principles underlying the legal framework of…
Jo Cox – what she meant to us
We are all devastated by the awful news of the murder of Jo Cox MP (nee Leadbeater) on Thursday, 16th June. Baby Milk Action has a lot to thank her for. Obituaries: Click here Click Here Jo was political advisor to Glenys Kinnock when…
22nd June Conflicts of Interest in Global Nutrition Research
22nd June Evidence Live Conference Centre for Evidence Based Medicine/BMJ/University of Oxford. I will be joining Prof Talukder for a session on Conflicts of Interest in Global Nutrition Research -still some tickets left for this conference 22-24th June
Health claims on foods for Infants and Young Children
Stop Press Following the meeting in June the Commission has started a consultation with Member States (MS) asking several key question (see DH BULLETIN – Follow-up questions to the Commission Working Group on hea… about their views on whether claims…
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls on UK government to better support breastfeeding and regulate the formula industry
Baby Milk Action press release 10 June 2016 Update 14 July 2016: Recommendations from the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights added The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued its concluding observations on the UK…
Resolution (WHA 69.9) tackling inappropriate marketing adopted
28th May 2016: Straight after the adoption of the Resolution WHA 69.9 Guidance on ending the inappropriate marketing of foods for infants and young children WHA 69/7 Add 1 Also adopted was the very worrying WHA 69.10 Above from…
Gabrielle Palmer and Martin Wagner speaking in London 14th June
EU parliament slams aid scheme that uses big agribusiness to ‘feed Africa’
STOP PRESS CLICK HERE for yesterday’s vote in the EU Parliament slamming of the New Alliance Aid scheme CLICK HERE for IBFAN’s concerns about the role of business in the Scaling Up Nutrition initiative EU parliament slams aid scheme that uses big agribusiness…
Concerns about the role of businesses in Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)
STOP PRESS CLICK HERE for yesterday’s vote in the EU Parliament slamming of the New Alliance Aid scheme PDF version: SUN IBFAN June132 2 2 page version prepared in 2014: SUN GAIN 2014 Right to Food and Nutrition Watch – the Business…
Breastfeeding Solidarity March – Gaborone, Botswana, 10 June
An alliance of organisations in Botswana is campaigning to raise public awareness on the importance of breastfeeding in saving lives and supporting development outcomes. They are holding a Breastfeeding Solidarity March in Gaborone on 10 June, starting at 8:30 (announcement…