Supporting women to breastfeed is everyone’s responsibility, including governments, donors, international organisations and civil society alike. Legislators and policy makers need to create an enabling environment that allows women to be informed of her options and supported throughout the entire breastfeeding experience, starting from the...
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An estimated 78 million babies – or three in five – are not breastfed within the first hour of life, putting them at higher risk of death and disease and making them less likely to continue breastfeeding, say UNICEF and WHO in a new report. Most...
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La presidencia canadiense del G-7 puso los derechos de las mujeres y las niñas en primer plano de la agenda de este año y abogó por políticas que mejorarán sus vidas. El país anfitrión, Canadá, ha enfatizado la importancia de las mujeres y las niñas...
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This report provides updated information on the status of implementing the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly resolutions (“the Code”) in and by countries. The report documents the adoption of new legislation implementing the Code in a few...
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In South Sudan, food insecurity continues to deteriorate to Emergency (IPC Phase 4) due to displacement, restrictions on movement and trade flows, and limited access to normal livelihoods activities. As measured on the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), 63 per cent of the total...
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In Kinshasa on 30 October 2017, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo launched the Common Narrative for the fight against malnutrition: a high-level, multisectoral commitment and coordination in support of the fight against chronic malnutrition in DRC....
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This blog was originally published by the Huffington Post. Access the original article. For us in the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, Human Rights Day, auspiciously marked at the end of each calendar year, offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on where we stand with making sure that...
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On 17 October 2017, Nutrition International launched the ‘Right Start Initiative’ in the Philippines to improve nutrition for pregnant women, newborns, infants and young children in the Philippines. Supported by the Government of Canada, Right Start aims to reduce anaemia in pregnant women and young children, and low...
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From 19-21 June 2017, a workshop on Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES) was held in Gbarnga, Bong County, Liberia....
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