<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">arun</b> <a href="mailto:arun.ibfan@gmail.com">arun.ibfan@gmail.com</a><br></span><br>Over the past six months we all have witnessed the most shocking<br>tainted milk scandal that killed six infants and sickened nearly<br>
300,000 more. These babies, well below 3 years, were fed milk powder<br>contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical used in fertilisers<br>and plastic production. Imagine if the babies were not fed powder milk<br>and in fact were fed on their mother’s milk. They could be saved from<br>
this unnecessary catastrophe.<br><br>Add your name to the ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN - NO MORE MILK SCANDALS!<br>SUPPORT WOMEN TO BREASTFEED to stop the push towards feeding babies<br>with milk formula, as well as demand support to women to breastfeed.<br>
Click here to sign the petition <a href="http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/en/Details_Petitions.aspx">http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/en/Details_Petitions.aspx</a><br><br><br>Growing scientific evidence points out how vital breastfeeding is to<br>
infant survival with health. Women are being forced to stop<br>breastfeeding and give their babies milk formulas because they lack<br>support to breastfeed, whether at the time of birth in family or<br>institutions, or when they are at work, and more importantly due to<br>
increasing commercial push to milk formula feeding. Potential<br>disasters are thus waiting to happen across the world.<br><br>The problem is HUGE. Around 200 mothers give birth to babies every<br>minute somewhere in the world. They need our support. Out of about 135<br>
million children born annually, only 64 million begin breastfeeding<br>within an hour and 71 million do NOT. About 48 million women are<br>successful in carrying out exclusive breastfeeding for the first six<br>months, and 87 million are NOT.<br>
Click to sign the petition <a href="http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/en/Details_Petitions.aspx">http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/en/Details_Petitions.aspx</a><br>to demand support for women to breastfeed.<br><br>Most people think of breastfeeding as something that happens between<br>
the woman and her child: that this decision is in the personal domain.<br>However, several factors affect women's ability to breastfeed<br>successfully: traditions, myths, status in the family and society,<br>work load, confidence in her body and sexuality, economic needs,<br>
labour laws, domestic and workplace violence and harassment,<br>availability of support services, advertising by commercial baby food<br>manufacturers, and so on. These factors do not allow millions of women<br>across the world to breastfeed their babies optimally.<br>
<br>How we respond to this crisis will shape the lives of our children –<br>our future.<br><br>Today, public concern alone can prevent potential milk scandals –<br>public action to respond to the needs of women to enable them to give<br>
the best possible food to their babies. We need to Act NOW !<br><br>Join the ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN - NO MORE MILK SCANDALS! SUPPORT WOMEN<br>TO BREASTFEED.<br>Click to sign the petition <a href="http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/en/Details_Petitions.aspx">http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/en/Details_Petitions.aspx</a><br>
<br>The petition demanding support to women will be presented to the world<br>leaders, at the World Health Assembly in May 2009. Your collective<br>voices will put pressure on the leaders to prevent unnecessary deaths<br>
of children, to ensure that every woman in every part of the world is<br>enabled to breastfeed successfully.<br><br><br>Be a connector<br><br>Forward this email to all your friends, your networks, and your<br>family, and let us raise a voice our leaders cannot ignore.<br>
<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>The Team<br><br>The ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN team assists the members of the World<br>Breastfeeding Movement family to identify issues that pose a challenge<br>
to successful breastfeeding, and develop national, regional and<br>international campaigns around them. The team works through a<br>secretariat in New Delhi, India, and international coordinators for<br>different regions.<br>
<br>ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN Support Women to Breastfeed is a campaign of the<br>World Breastfeeding Movement with just one mission - to mobilize<br>public opinion through one million signatures, demanding support to<br>women to breastfeed.<br>
<br>ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN Support Women to Breastfeed brings together<br>people of all ages from all walks of life to generate the support<br>women need to breastfeed successfully. Through participating in the<br>Movement's campaigns, petitions to local, national and international<br>
policy makers, discussions groups, evidence-based information sharing,<br>and actions at every level, you can focus national and global<br>attention on the several challenges to successful breastfeeding and<br>help to resolve them. read more<br>
<br><br> ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN has been initiated by International Baby Food<br>Action Network (IBFAN), winner of the '1998 Right Livelihood Award'.<br>IBFAN has more than 200 public interest groups working around the<br>
world to improve infant feeding practices and save lives of infants<br>and young children. IBFAN works for the universal and full<br>implementation of 'International Code of Marketing of Breast milk<br>Substitutes and subsequent relevant World Health Assembly (WHA)<br>
resolutions.<br><br>