Join us in working toward creating systemic changes by promoting legislation, policies, media portrayals and other institutional changes that promote, support and protect breastfeeding.

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Please email to Luz Chacon or call us at 213-596-5776 for more information.

Resources:

• American Academy of Pediatrics Workgroup on Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding and Use of Human Milk, 1997 (PDF)
• Breastfeeding: Best Choice in the Polluted World
• Breastfeeding in the United States: A National Agenda, US Breastfeeding Committee, 2001
• Breastfeeding Promotion in WIC: Current Federal Requirements, Department of Agriculture, 2003
• Healthy People 2010 Breastfeeding Objective
• Innocenti Declaration, 1990 Legislation in the United States Congress (Search by Congressional Year Under Word/Phrase "Breastfeeding." Current Year is 108th.)
• National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy
• IBFAN's new report Checks and Balances in the Global Economy: Using International Tools to Stop Corporate Malpractice - Does it Work?
• Nestle Markets Baby Formula To Hispanic Mothers in U.S.
• Summary of State Breastfeeding Laws, Congressional Research Service Report to Congress, 2003 (PDF)
• WHO International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, 1981 (PDF)
• WHO The Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding, 2002 (PDF)