Organization
International Baby Food Action Network
Network of citizen groups formed in 1979 that monitors the marketing of breast-milk substitutes. Its founding groups included the ones that ran the Nestlé boycott; it also co-authored the 2020 WHO and UNICEF status report.
- Also known as
- IBFAN
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- Q3364707
- The Formula20 scenes
- Who is behind International Baby Food Action Network?3 links
- How are International Baby Food Action Network and … connected?
Connections 4
founded by
- Infant Formula Action Coalition Oct 1979 one of five founding groups Scholarship & press 1
- Third World Action Group Bern Oct 1979 one of five founding groups Scholarship & press 1
- War on Want Oct 1979 one of five founding groups Scholarship & press 1
produced
Timeline 4 dates
- Oct 1979 Infant Formula Action Coalition founded International Baby Food Action Network
- Oct 1979 Third World Action Group Bern founded International Baby Food Action Network
- Oct 1979 War on Want founded International Baby Food Action Network
- May 2020 International Baby Food Action Network produced Marketing of breast-milk substitutes: National implementation of the International Code, status report 2020
Proof 2 sources
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International groups boycott Nestle products to end indiscriminate advertising, 1977-1984 (Global Nonviolent Action Database case study by Soul Han), Swarthmore College, 30 Sep 2021.
Scholarship & press
by the end of the conference, five NGOs—IOCU, War on Want, The Third World Action Group of Bern, InFACT, and ICCR—launched the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)
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Marketing of breast-milk substitutes: National implementation of the International Code, status report 2020 (UNICEF report page), UNICEF, May 2020.
Primary record
The report, produced by WHO, UNICEF and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN)
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