How can countries take action to protect healthy feeding and end inappropriate promotion of foods for children under two years of age? A new policy brief helps country governments, non-governmental organizations and private companies implement the World Health Organization Guidance on Ending the Inappropriate Promotion of Foods for Infants and Young Children. Helen Keller International…

Unhealthy snack foods and beverages as a human rights issue Recently, a United Nations expert warned that unhealthy snack foods and beverages are a human rights concern. In a new report, Hilal Elver, the U.N.’s special representative on the right to food, said that the rise of industrial food production combined with trade liberalization has…

It’s been 35 years since the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) was passed by the World Health Assembly (WHA). Last month, leaders at the 69th Assembly welcomed a new resolution aimed at protecting breastfeeding and the appropriate complementary feeding of young children.

This Devex Guest Column argues that breastfeeding plays a significant role in improving nutrition, intelligence, educational attainment, and maternal and child health and survival. And raising awareness—and breastfeeding rates—among mothers will require changes in how milk substitutes are marketed across the globe.