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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><u><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #4f81bd"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: #0033cc">Its We the People Who Can Bring Change:<span> </span>Lets ACT NOW!!</span></strong></u></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><strong><font size="3"><font color="#000000">World Breastfeeding Week starts on August 1, (1-7 August). The theme is </font><span style="COLOR: #c00000">Breastfeeding, A Vital Emergency Response: Are You Ready? </span></font></strong></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="COLOR: black"><strong>You can find out more </strong></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="COLOR: black">download materials and find events at:</span><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000"> </font><a href="http://www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">http://www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org/</font></a><font color="#000000"> </font></span></i></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="3">UNICEF and WHO have made statements in support of the week, which is coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="3">UNICEF's statement includes: "Around 9 million children under five die every year, largely from preventable causes... According to the Lancet, optimal breastfeeding in the first two years of life, especially exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, can have the single largest impact on child survival of all preventative interventions, with the potential to prevent 12 to 15% of all under age 5 deaths in the developing world... This year's World Breastfeeding Week provides an opportunity to sensitize policy-makers, donors, implementing partners and the general public to the benefits of breastfeeding, to its particular importance in emergency situations, and to the need to protect and support mothers to breastfeeding during emergencies."</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="3">You can find the full UNICEF and WHO statements via links at:</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="3">It is a government requirement that tins have warnings that breastmilk is best for babies, but Nestlé refuses to translate these into local language, despite requests to do so, because of 'cost restraints'. It took a Baby Milk Action campaign that led to Mark Thomas highlighting this irresponsible marketing on UK television, to change Nestlé's minds, and further campaigning to persuade Nestlé to show cup feeding, rather than bottle feeding, in line with government policies. See:</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.babymilkaction.org/CEM/compfeb00.html" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">http://www.babymilkaction.org/CEM/compfeb00.html</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="3">So campaigning works. Now we need to persuade Nestlé to remove the 'protect' logo from labels . You can help by sending a message to Nestlé. You will find the information you need to do so on our July Campaign for Ethical Marketing action sheet, which is now available on our website at: </font><a href="http://www.babymilkaction.org/cem/cemjuly09.html" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff" size="3">http://www.babymilkaction.org/cem/cemjuly09.html</font></a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="3">If politicians fulfilled their responsibility to implement the baby food marketing standards adopted by the World Health Assembly, then public campaigns would not be necessary and there would be progress towards stopping the millions of preventable under-5 deaths.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">You can help put pressure on politicians by </font><span style="COLOR: #ff0066"><strong>signing the ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN petition</strong></span><font color="#000000">. If you have already signed, visit the campaign website to see what action you can take to encourage friends and colleagues to sign up. See: </font></font><a href="http://onemillioncampaign.org/" target="_blank"><font size="3">http://www.onemillioncampaign.org</font></a><font color="#000000" size="3"> </font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><strong><font size="3"><font color="#000000">Action Alert</font></font></strong></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">1. Make an opportunity to call upon companies and your leaders to </font><span style="COLOR: #4f81bd"><strong>END ALL KINDS OF PROMTIONS </strong></span><font color="#000000">of Baby Foods by 2015. </font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font color="#000000">2. If you would like to submit the </font><span style="COLOR: #ff0066"><strong>One Million Campaign Petition</strong></span><font color="#000000"> to your Head of the State, please use the opportunity to do so.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="3">At this link </font><a href="http://onemillioncampaign.org/press-release1.aspx" target="_blank"><font size="3">http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/press-release1.aspx</font></a><font size="3"><font color="#000000"> <span> </span>you can find the Petition letter, and petition submitted to the President of the World Health Assembly in May 2009.<span> </span></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" size="3">Another link </font><a href="http://onemillioncampaign.org/doc/draft-letter.doc" target="_blank"><font size="3">http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/doc/draft-letter.doc</font></a><font color="#000000" size="3"> <span> </span><span> </span>provides a draft for you to use to write to your Head of State.</font></span></p>
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