About Innocenti Declaration:

• It was signed in August 1990 during the WHO and UNICEF policymakers’ meeting on ‘Breastfeeding in the 1990s: A Global Initiative’ in Italy.
• The Innocenti Declaration says that all women should be enabled to practise exclusive breastfeeding and all infants should be fed exclusively on breastmilk up to 4-6 months of age ‘as a global goal for optimal maternal and child health and nutrition’.

Source: EPIC December 2021