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Another nail in the coffin of satire

11 February, 2012 - 10:23 — Webmaster

I was going to include this expression in a press release sent out yesterday, but no-one in the office understood what it meant.

If you have to explain a joke then it isn't very funny. But here goes.

Nestlé in court for spying on Swiss group

25 January, 2012 - 10:51 — Webmaster

Nestlé is in court in Switzerland on 24th and 25th January 2012 for running spies in the Swiss campaign group, ATTAC. 

Governments should govern, and corporations should follow the rules

16 January, 2012 - 14:15 — Webmaster

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 http://www.unscn.org/files/Publications/SCN_News/SCNNEWS39_10.01_high_def.pdf

A question for members of the United Reformed Church

27 November, 2011 - 10:34 — Webmaster

We have received shocking news from the United Reformed Church (URC) Secretary for Church and Society.

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

23 September, 2011 - 17:44 — Webmaster

NCVO GuideI was pleased to provide information to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) for a briefing it produced on Campaigning and the private sector - click here.

This includes profiles of the campaigning strategies of a range of organisations, including Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Baby Milk Action.

Although it includes in the title the question Persuasion or pressure? these are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, with some corporations it takes pressure to persuade them to act.

 

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

21 September, 2011 - 19:56 — Webmaster

Baby Milk Action recently formed the Conflict of Interest (COI) Coalition, bringing together - so far - over 140 international networks and civil society organisations calling for the United Nations to avoid conflicts of interest as it sets policies on obesity, diabetes and other Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).

The Coalition represents thousands of non-profit public health advocacy groups around the world.

Department of Health responds to Baby Milk Action email campaign

29 July, 2011 - 15:03 — Webmaster

Over 1,000 people have sent emails to the Secretary of State for Health, Mr. Andrew Lansley, asking the Government to reconsider its decision to scrap its Infant Feeding Coordinator posts and its support for National Breastfeeding Awareness Week. The response from the Department of Health is given below.

Nestlé, FTSE4Good and baby milk marketing practices

7 July, 2011 - 23:48 — Webmaster

Updated: 7 April 2014

Click here to download this briefing paper as a pdf file. The online version links to references.

For IBFAN's briefing on FTSE4Good - click here.

Nestlé is listed in the FTSE4Good ethical investment Index. Nestlé’s Chairman tells people this demonstrates it complies with baby food marketing requirements. This is not the case. FTSE has asked Nestlé more than once to stop misrepresenting what inclusion signifies. Here is the background.

Reuniting mothers and babies - we are all Habiba

21 June, 2011 - 12:30 — Webmaster

Baby Milk Action and its partners have repeatedly raised concerns when mothers have been separated from their babies in immigration or detention centres or denied access to feed them. This action has led to questions being raised in Parliament and helped bring about changes to government procedures (press release from 2007 case).

We have been asked to support mothers' rights in a similar case in Spain, that of Habiba and her daughter.

(Campaign image by Louma Sader Bujana / AmorMaternal.com).

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