Ever since public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been hailed as a key policy model, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been promising to upgrade its conflict of interest measures to ensure its mandate is not jeopardized by overly close relationships...
A very dense agenda characterised the 142nd Session of the Executive Board of WHO, last 22-27 January 2018. IBFAN participated actively in the Session, presenting its concerns to the EB members and to the non-EB Member States delegations. Breastfeeding...
Villeneuve d’Ascq, France, 17 November 2017. On the occasion of the French National Breastfeeding Day – la Journée Nationale de l’Allaitement 2017, GIFA was invited to give a comprehensive presentation on the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes...
A few years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) turned its attention towards infant and young child feeding, a badly underfunded and neglected area of public health and nutrition. As traditional government donors pay little attention to...
The Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with respect to human rights will meet for the 3rd time, from 23 to 27 October at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva. The IGWG had published earlier...
In May 2017, delegates from IBFAN-GIFA, Baby Milk Action/IBFAN UK and FIAN International advocated under IBFAN accreditation for increased corporate accountability and effective safeguards against the undue corporate influence in global health governance at the 70th World Health Assembly...
« 2016 marque un anniversaire important pour la firme veveysane. L’occasion de faire le point sur ses méthodes de gestion souvent contestables, loin de l’image lisse que renvoient les rapports annuels de Nestlé. » Le Courrier, 2 décembre 2016 Dans un dossier spécial...
On 24 October 2016, the second session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises (IGWG) opened at the UN in Geneva. The Working Group was established in 2014 by Human Rights Council Resolution...
Geneva, 24 May 2016 –Civil Society Organizations and Social Movements call upon WHO Member States not to compromise the independence, integrity and credibility of the WHO while negotiating on Framework on Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA). A joint statement...
By Lida Lhotska (IBFAN-GIFA) and Arun Gupta (BPNI/IBFAN Asia) Concerns surround the possible adoption of a new World Health Organization policy of engagement with non-state entities – which could mean big business – and potential conflicts of interest, Arun Gupta...
In an article recently published on the Global Policy Watch blog, Barbara Adams from Global Policy Forum highlights that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), endorsed in September 2015 by Member States, have been renamed “Global Goals” and copyrighted as such...
