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and disease affecting millions of babies in economically developing countries as a result of consuming bottle-fed formula milk. After intense campaigning by IBFAN, including organizing consumer boycotts against the likes of Nestlé, whose subtle yet effective campaigns were undermining breastfeeding, the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization, adopted the International Code of Marketing on Breast Milk Substitutes the first such code designed to control widespread marketing abuses by baby food companies.
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joined the three conference sponsors as the five founding organizations who became the international organization's initial council. In 1979, IOCU (which then became Consumers International) and other citizens' groups formed the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) to eradicate the death
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It holds General Consultative Status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. This is the highest status granted by the United Nations to non-governmental organizations, allowing them to participate in the work of the United Nations.
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Consumers by definition include us all. They are the largest economic group, affecting and affected by almost every public and private economic decision. Yet they are the only important group… whose views are often not
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International also works with and hosts the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) a forum of US and EU consumer organizations that develops and agrees on consumer policy recommendations to the
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is the membership organization for consumer groups around the world. Founded on 1 April 1960, it has over 250 member organizations in 120 countries. Its head office is situated in
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of a 'World Consumer Rights Day' marking that date, and on 15 March 1983 consumer organizations started observing that date as an occasion to promote basic rights of consumers.
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World Consumer Rights Day is an annual occasion for celebration and solidarity within the international consumer movement. Participants observe the day by promoting the
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Consumers International has over 250 member organizations in 120 countries. These members are independent consumer organizations.
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The organization was first established in the year 1960 as the International organization of Consumers Unions (IOCU) by National
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In January 1960, these three organizations sponsored the First International Conference on Consumer Testing in
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IOCU on record : a documentary history of the International Organization of Consumers Unions, 1960-1990
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IOCU was founded by Elizabeth Schadee, who would later chair the board of the Netherlands'
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to promote the consumer interest in EU and US policy making – at its office in London.
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working for Consumers International at the time, later proposed the
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to create Standards that provide solutions to global challenges.
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who wanted to create cross-border campaigns and share knowledge.
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Formerly the International Organisation of Consumers Unions
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International umbrella organisation for consumer protection
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Organisations based in the London Borough of Islington
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Index


Consumer protection
watchdog
London
N5
www.consumersinternational.org
London
Latin America
Asia Pacific
Africa
not-for-profit
company limited by guarantee
consumer organizations
Consumentenbond
Consumers' Association
Consumers Union
Colston Warne
The Hague
Belgium
Association des Consommateurs
Australian Consumers' Association
Health Action International
economically developing countries
industrialised countries
Consumers
US government
European Union
US President
John F. Kennedy
Consumer Bill of Rights

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