Realizing infants' nutrition rights

International Journal of Children's Rights

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 457-472

  Kent, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 84856889168     PISSN: 09275568     EISSN: 15718182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15718189720493870     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. UNICEF Press Release, Secretary-General Reports Big Progress for Children (New York: UNICEF CF/DOC/PR/1996-24, 1996.
2. The press release was based on Progress at Mid-Decade on Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 45/217 on the World Summit for Children: Report of the Secretary General (New York: United Nations A/51/256, 26 July 1996, pp. 47-48.
3. UNICEF, The Progress of Nations 1996 (New York: UNICEF/Oxford University Press, 1996)
4. Per Pinstrup-Andersen, David Pelletier, and Harold Alderman, eds., Child Growth and Nutrition in Developing Countries: Priorities for Action (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995)
5. Stuart Gillespie, John Mason, and Reynaldo Martorell, How Nutrition Improves (Geneva: Administrative Committee on Coordination-Subcommittee on Nutrition, 1996.
6. Ellen J. Sokol, The Code Handbook: A Guide to Implementing the International Code (Penang, Malaysia: Inter national Code Documentation Centre, 1997).
7. The ICDC may be reached at P.O. Box 19, 10700 Penang, Malaysia, or via email through its neighbor, the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) at secr@waba.po.my.
8. Ted Greiner, The Promotion of Bottle Feeding by Multinational Corporations: How Advertising and the Health Profes sions Have Contributed (Ithaca, New York: Cornell International Nutrition Monograph Series, 1975);
9. World Health Organization, International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes (Geneva: WHO, 1981);
10. Carolyn E. Campbell, The Decline in Breastfeeding: An Analysis of the Role of the Nestle Corporation from Two Perspectives (Ithaca, New York: Cornell International Nutrition Monograph Series, 1982);
11. Andrew Chetley, The Politics of Baby Foods: Successful Challenges to an International Marketing Strategy (London: Frances Pinter, 1986);
12. Penny Van Esterik , Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1989);
13. Naomi Baumslag and D. L. Michels, Milk, Money, and Madness (Westport, Connecticut: Bergen and Garvey, 1995).
14. In January 1996 the Swedish journal NU: News on Health Care in Developing Countries, published at Uppsala University, published a special issue on The International Code: Challenges for the Future.
15. Michael Latham, "Breastfeeding as a Human Right,"
16. and Leah Margulies, "The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes: A Model for Assuring Children's Nutrition Rights Under the Law," in this journal.
17. Savitri Goonesekere, Women's Rights and Children's Rights: The United Nations Conventions as Compatible and Complementary International Treaties (Florence, Italy: UNICEF International Child Development Centre, 1992).
18. Asbjørn Eide, Arne Oshaug, and Wenche Barth Eide, "Food Security and the Right to Food in Interna tional Law and Development," Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1991), pp. 415-467.
19. Mark Thompson, "A Call to Nurse," Time, February 24, 1997, p. 32.
20. Jurg Gerber, "Enforced Self-Regulation in the Infant Formula Industry: A Radical Extension of an 'Impractical' Proposal," Social Justice, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 98-112.
21. Progress at Mid-Decade .. ,p. 57.
22. Virginia Yee and Dilrini Ranatunga, Women s Rights to Maternity Protection: Information for Action (Penang, Malaysia: World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, 1996).
23. Baumslag and Michels, Milk, Money, and Madness, pp. 189-212.
24. Baumslag and Michels, Milk, Money, and Madness, pp. 106-108.
25. United States General Accounting Office, Breastfeeding: WIC's Efforts to Promote Breast feeding Have Increased (Washington, D.C.: USGAO, GAO/HRD-94-13, 1993), p. 1.
26. Thomas M. Burton, "Spilled Milk: Methods of Marketing Infant Formula Land Abbott in Hot Water," Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993, pp. A1, A6.
27. Curiously, it appears that early cost-containment proposals considered large-contract purchases for all WIC foods except formula, while the final result was that such arrange ments were only for formula.
28. General Accounting Office, Supplemental Food Program: Savings From Food Purchases Could Increase WIC Participation (Washington, D.C.: USGAO, GAO/RCED-88-183BR, 1988)
29. United States General Accounting Office, Infant Formula: Cost Containment and Competition in the WIC Program (Washington, D.C.: USGAO, GAO/HHRD-90-122, 1990).
30. In 1852 Monsignor Morel, the mayor of Villiers-le-duc, offered a bounty to mothers whose breastfed infants lived to see their first birthdays, and thus lowered the infant mortality rate by a third. See Baumslag and Michels, Milk, Money, and Madness, p. 114.