I attended the three sessions of the Parliamentary Select Committee Childhood Obesity Inquiry.  Much of the media coverage has focused on whether or not there should be a sugar tax on sweetened drinks and the  call by the Chair of the…

There were several relevant Fringe meetings at  Party conferences.  Private Eye picked up on a complaint I made about the Danone funding of a meeting on Early years at the Conservative Conference: “Danone, the baby food giant which makes Aptamil baby and…

http://www.who.int/nutrition/events/2015_conflictsofinterest_nut_programmes_scopeandpurpose.pdf?ua=1   Technical consultation: addressing and managing conflicts of interest in the planning and delivery of nutrition programmes at country level  Date: 8-9 October 2015  Venue: International Labour Organization (ILO) Salle IX (R2-sud), Geneva, Switzerland   

For comments on this article by Yasmine Motarjemi see her Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/justiceforyasmine/posts/1631441403739872 https://www.facebook.com/justiceforyasmine/posts/1631682727049073 and here – another article. http://setexasrecord.com/stories/510634511-tyler-woman-claims-nestle-waters-fired-her-because-of-pregnancy Has Nestle Gone Too Far? Forbes Business   AUG 21, 2015   Clark Wolf , http://www.forbes.com/sites/clarkwolf/2015/08/20/has-nestle-gone-too-far/ Protests against Nestle, the food giant, over…

As part of WHO’s Reform process, Member States of WHO have been for over 4 years discussing a policy for engagement with external actors. To protect the agency’s integrity, independence and credibility, the 2014 World Health Assembly (WHA) called for…

    ILO’s statement in support of WBW containing the WHO materials and posters: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/who-we-are/ilo-director-general/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_387405/lang–en/index.htm   WABA’s social media toolkit: http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/pdf/wbw2015-socialmedia.pdf   UNICEF photo essay on breastfeeding and work: https://medium.com/photography-and-social-change/breastfeeding-and-work-afea268fb6c3   The first in a series of blogs on UNICEF Connect: http://blogs.unicef.org/2015/08/03/breastfeeding-and-work-snapshots-from-companies-around-the-world/   Paper…

IBFAN concerns about Ongoing discussions about  WHO’s Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA)    CLICK HERE for the text As part of WHO’s Reform process, Member States of WHO have been for over 4 years discussing a policy for engagement with external actors.…