Governments should govern, and corporations should follow the rules

The latest edition of SCN News contains an article written by myself and Patti Rundall, our Policy Director, with this title. See page 51 of...

Pressure and persuasion - small acts help to hold big corporations to account

I was pleased to provide information to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) for a briefing it produced on Campaigning an...

The Conflicts of Interest Coalition - protecting health right now in New York

Baby Milk Action recently formed the Conflict of Interest (COI) Coalition, bringing together - so far - over 140 international networks and ...

Over 140,000 people call for United Nations to protect, promote and support breastfeeding and appropriate information

The UN Secretary General, Ban KI-moon, is today announcing a worldwide campaign to save the lives of 16 million mothers and children over th...

Vote for babies in the UK General Election

I've just posted a new page on our website with a leaflet for the UK General Election campaign. See: http://info.babymilkaction.org/ukel...

Baby Milk Action Update 42 newsletter

You can download our latest newsletter as a pdf file by clicking here: http://www.babymilkaction.org/pdfs/update42.pdf Here's the overvi...

On corporate trolls and spies

I sure I am not giving anything away to corporations in writing this blog. For reasons I won't go into, I've just come across this s...

Links to company contact pages to take action over unethical baby food marketing

Have you sent messages to the companies that put infants at risk by pushing baby milk in ways that breach the marketing standards adopted by...

World Breastfeeding Week 2009

World Breastfeeding Week starts tomorrow (1-7 August). The theme is Breastfeeding, A Vital Emergency Response: Are You Ready? You can find o...

Demos against Nestlé and calls for leaders to act against baby milk pushers

It was a busy week last week with the World Health Assembly. We have had: New charts downgrading European countries for failing to act to st...

Did you unfortunately object to the EU feeding bottle image?

There is a way of apologising that is no apology at all. Here's an example: "It is unfortunate that you interpreted my suggestion t...

Action to protect infant health - events coming up in May

Here is a round up of news and coming action, covering: * Our new UK monitoring report: Hard Sell Formula 2009. * Gather signatures for the ...

Two awards and an authority rating

News of two awards and something similar. Firstly, Nestlé has won yet another shaming award. This time it is from a consumer group in Taiwan...

Three awards

News of three awards. Firstly, Nestlé has won yet another shaming award. This time it is from a consumer group in Taiwan. The Taipei Times r...

Sanlu pushed formula in China in breach of international standards

The International Code Documentation Centre - part of the International Baby Food Action Network ( IBFAN - Baby Milk action is the UK membe...

The Politics of Breastfeeding - pre-order for October

The Politics of Breastfeeding is a book that has motivated many people to campaign to stop baby food companies aggressively marketing their ...

Brazilian breastfeeding conference and 1,600 mothers breastfeeding

I wrote yesterday about sponsorship of events on infant care and the need to be wary of conflicts of interest. Baby Milk Action accepts no f...

World Breastfeeding Week 2008

Here's a message I've just received about World Breastfeeding Week and a way you can draw attention to any event you are planning. -...

World Environment Day: Infant feeding and climate change

Today is World Environment Day. Colleagues in the Malta Breastfeeding Foundation have producted a power point show on infant feeding and the...

Reality check at the Brazilian National Breastfeeding Conference

Today I am due to speak at Brazil's National Breastfeeding Conference about breastfeeding and corporations. As you can imagine I will be...