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Code Essentials Booklets
Code Essentials Booklets 1, 2 and 3 give breastfeeding advocates the essentials about the need to regulate the marketing of baby foods (including formula), feeding bottles and teats.
Order online in our resource centre.
URGENT Haiti
UNICEF, WHO and WFP call for support for appropriate infant and young child feeding in the current emergency, and caution about unnecessary and potentially harmful donations and use of breast-milk substitutes.
Read the joint statement.
Mark your calendar
The 20th National Breastfeeding Conference will take place in Toronto on October 21 and 22, 2010. Checkout the conference website for more information as we confirm speakers and topics.
New Calendar
2010 IBFAN Calendar
The International Baby Food Action Network's 2010 calendar is now available. The latest edition of the annual calendar features 12 beautiful breastfeeding photographs from around the world and is a wonderful visual representation of the global breastfeeding community.
This year's calendar features sharper photos than ever before of breastfeeding mothers and families from all over the world including Sierra Leone, Croatia, the United States, Malaysia and elsewhere. Now available on the INFACT website.
Order online in our resource centre.
Cost $15 plus shipping/handling.
(shipping/handling charges are $7.50 for Canadian orders)
New Breastfeeding DVD
Humans are the only mammal to feed their young the milk of another species. Breastfeeding - Making the Connection explores why parents choose formula over breast milk and how the implementation of Baby-Friendly practices can reverse this trend. If you’re interested in the future of our health care systems and the wellbeing of generations to come, this film is a must-see.
Order online in our resource centre.
Sign the petition! Help us get 100,000 signatures to present to Prime Minister Harper.
Join INFACT Canada and INFACT Quebec and sign on to the “protect breastfeeding petition” at http://protectbreastfeedingpetition.ca/. You can make a difference for mothers and children, sign the petition, share the petition and join us for a better world for all of us.
Visit our Resources section where you can:
Browse our resource centre for our popular breastfeeding educational and promotional items. Choose from our beautiful posters, eye-catching t-shirts, informative books and more.
Check out the online edition of INFACT Canada’s newsletter for national and international breastfeeding news. We have both current and archived editions to ensure you’ll stay abreast of the issues.
Choose from dozens of educational fact sheets covering a wide variety of breastfeeding topics, including the International Code, the Importance of breastfeeding, and the Nestle Boycott.
Be an active member of Canada’s breastfeeding community by visiting our bulletin board, where you can read notices of upcoming breastfeeding events or post your own.
Find out how to register for the Breastfeeding Conference held every year which includes exhibits and speakers from across the country.
Find out how to attend or host INFACT Canada’s 20-Hour Breastfeeding Management Course. The course provides those working with mothers with the information they need to support and facilitate breastfeeding. We put on many courses every year, and could be coming to an area near you.
Connect to other breastfeeding organizations throughout the world with our related links.
Visit our Issues/Action section where you can:
Read about the latest developments in breastfeeding issues in INFACT Canada’s news releases.
Learn about the most important document pertaining to the protection of breastfeeding: the World Health Assembly’s International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes and subsequent relevant resolutions of the World Health Assembly. Monitor violations of the International Code with our online monitoring form. Find out about global and national policies on infant and young child feeding. What’s going on at the Codex Alimentarius and the latest on World Health Assembly Resolutions.
Know your breastfeeding rights! The right to breastfeed anywhere, anytime, is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
NEW Support the Australian initiative to require warning labels on formula products. Learn more and sign the petition on Action Against Formula's website.
Find out about the world’s largest and most successful consumer boycott, the Nestlé Boycott. Learn how you can help put pressure on the company until they stop their dangerous and immoral marketing of breastmilk substitutes.
Help us celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, an annual event which raises awareness of breastfeeding issues. You can also order our World Breastfeeding Week Kit, a promotional and educational tool that includes helpful fact sheets and resources.
Help us stop practices that undermine breastfeeding, and learn about the latest issues that need urgent action. Take action by writing a letter, sending an email or making a phone call.