World Breastfeeding Week

The theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2006 is Code watch: 25 years of protecting breastfeeding. According to the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (the organisers of the week), over 60 countries have legislated all or many provisions of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (the Code), which regulates the marketing of breastmilk substitutes. The week will celebrate this success and draw attention to the work still needed to improve breastfeeding practices worldwide.

World Breastfeeding Week is coordinated every year by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action to commemorate the Innocenti Declaration to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.

Further information

World Breasfeeding Week site
International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
Declaration on Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding, 1990
Save the Children: Help protect children from companies who place profits before health (28 July 2006)
Innocenti: 1990-2005 Celebrating the Innocenti Declaration on Protection, Promotion and Support of Breastfeeding
WHO: Promoting proper feeding for infants and young children
WHO: More on breastfeeding

pdf: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2006/world_breastfeeding_week/en/i...

Organisation:

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action

Link :

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2006/world_breastfeeding_week/en/index.html

Countries

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