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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:windowtext">Muslim and Western nations overcame deep divisions to agree
on a landmark United Nations code to combat violence against women and girls. </span></p>

<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:windowtext">Iran, Libya, Sudan and other Muslim nations ended threats to
block the declaration and agreed to language stating that vio-lence against
women could not be justified by "any custom, tradition or religious </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext">consideration."
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext">Western nations, particularly from Scandinavia,
toned down demands for references to gay rights and sexual health rights to
secure the accord after two weeks of tense nego-tiations between the 193 UN
member states. </span></p>

<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext">Some 6,000 non-government groups were in New York for the Commission on the Status of
Women meeting. Cheers and wild applause erupted when the accord was announced
in the UN headquarters late Friday. </span></p>

<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:windowtext">For more details: </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:6.0pt"><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hBQYyVUVaIqO961efFkY48Be058g?docId=CNG.31f0f0079f76f2fc68946263093e0993.41">http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hBQYyVUVaIqO961efFkY48Be058g?docId=CNG.31f0f0079f76f2fc68946263093e0993.41</a></span></p>


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">More Action Needed on
Baby Food Marketing </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Marketing
malpractice of baby foods continues. As a new report from Save the Children,
‘Superfood for babies<i>: How overcoming barriers to breastfeeding will save
children’s lives</i>’, documents, baby food companies continue to push their
products in ways that endanger health. The report contains on-the-ground
re-search; it is essential to look at what companies actually <i>do</i>, rather
than just at what they say they do. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">Nestlé
claims to abide by World Health Assembly marketing requirements, but Save the
Children found <span style> </span>in Pakistan, for example,
that 20 per cent of health professionals surveyed reported gifts from baby-food
companies – over half were Nestlé-branded. Danone, now second in the baby-milk
market, is also criticized. The company is an increasing cause for concern as
it tries to compete with Nestlé. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"">For more details:
<a href="http://newint.org/blog/2013/03/06/baby-milk-action/">http://newint.org/blog/2013/03/06/baby-milk-action/</a></span></p>