It acts as a child advocacy group for children, and its activities focus strictly on children. The CRC gives a common yardstick by which to measure the degree to which the rights of all children to healthy survival, development and protection are fulfilled. This demand is necessary as inappropriate bottle-feeding caused by irresponsible marketing of commercial infant foods, bottles and teats, is causing havoc with infants' lives.
Every child needs to grow.
And life is not living but living in health. Reduce infant mortality. Promote the right of families to have enough nutritious food. Promote the right of women to full support for successful breastfeeding and for sound infant feeding practices. Advance the right of health workers and consumers of hospitals to be free from commercial pressure.