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A mother breastfeeds her child in Tanzania.
UN Photo/B. Wolff

UNICEF urges strong leadership to promote life-saving practice of breastfeeding

1 August 2013
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) kicked off World Breastfeeding Week today by calling for strong leadership to promote a practice that is the most effective and inexpensive way to save a child’s life.

Philippines: UN expert blasts milk industry for seeking profit at cost of infant health

27 February 2007
An independent United Nations rights expert today denounced a campaign by Filipino milk companies to promote breast-milk substitutes for manipulating UN data to protect their huge profits regardless of the interest of a country where 16,000 children under 5 died in 2003 from improper feeding practices including infant formula.
A young mother breast feeds her baby

Breastfeeding can save over 1 million lives yearly, UNICEF reports

30 July 2004
If more infants worldwide are given only mother’s milk and no food or formula until the age of six months, at least 1.3 million lives could be saved this year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today.