1998
RECIPIENT OF THE
IBFAN was one of the
four recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, often referred
to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize". IBFAN was honoured
"for its committed and effective campaigning over nearly
20 years for the right of mothers to choose to breastfeed
their babies free from the commercial pressure and misinformation
with which companies promote breastmilk substitutes"
Find out
"The State of the World's Breastfeeding" http://www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org/
Global
Strategy for Infant and Young Child
Feeing : World
Health Assembly (WHA) and UNICEF adopted
the Global Strategy ,which
sets five additional targets: national
policy on infant and young child feeding,
community outreach, information support,
infant feeding in difficult circumstances
and monitoring and evaluation .
I
Y C F Programmes
One
Asia Breastfeeding Partners Forum
One Asia Breastfeeding Partners Forum – 8 Ulaanbaatar , Mongolia on 14-16 Sept., 2011
Theme : “Climate Change and Food Security”
Day
1
Theme
: Food Security and Climate Change Concerns
and cautions for breastfeeding and Complementary
feeding
Climate
change and infant and young child feeding Presentation
from participating countries about status
of formula feeding, commercial foods,
trends, possible GHG emissions, Coordination:
Arun Gupta
Issues
in food security and undernutrition Sharing
recipes of local complementary foods
from Asian countries
Day
2
Theme
– Infant and young child’s
Right to Food - Assessing where countries
stand, with focus on
Presentations
from South east Asian countries
Day
3
Theme
: Future Plans of regions
Group
Discussion on future plans and presentation
of regional Plans for Action on
Assessments and reporting on WBTi
The World Breastfeeding Conference,
2012
World Breastfeeding Week 2012
Briefing
in plenary: Arun Gupta
Workshop
on Funding Opportunities – Shoba
Suri, Ugyen Zangmo, Ines Fernandez,
Kim Jaiok
Photo Gallery :
