Press
Release on Beijing World Conference on Women
SCHAUMBURG
- October, 1995 - La Leche League International (LLLI) sent three
representatives to the Fourth World Conference on Women which
met September 4-15 in Beijing, China.
Rebecca
Magalhaes, Director of International Action & Development
for LLLI at the Schaumburg office worked with Marian Tompson,
an LLLI Founder and Vickie Nizin, an LLL Leader from New Jersey
to network with other breastfeeding support organizations. Together
the organizations presented several workshops on breastfeeding
during the Non-Governmental Organization Forum and lobbied at
the conference to see that breastfeeding was included in the text
of the United Nations Platform for Action.
"The
nicest thing about the conference was being part of the combined
efforts of all the breastfeeding groups," said Magalhaes.
Other groups working under the banner of the World Alliance for
Breastfeeding Action (WABA) included the Infant Baby Food Action
Network (IBFAN), International Lactation Consultants Association
(ILCA) and breastfeeding organizations from Norway and Sweden.
It was the Norwegian government which introduced a paragraph on
breastfeeding and working women in the economic section of the
document.
A workshop
presented by the various breastfeeding groups included information
on the World Health Organization (WHO) Code for the marketing
of infant formulas, paid employment and breastfeeding, mother-to-mother
support, and breastfeeding and health care.
La Leche
League International is recognized as the world's foremost authority
on breastfeeding. The organization, which offers breastfeeding
support and information, reaches 100,000 women in 60 countries
each month. For more information about breastfeeding, finding
a La Leche League breastfeeding support group or La Leche League
write to PO Box 4079, Schaumburg, Illinois, 60168.4079 or
in the US call 1-800-LA -LECHE.
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