Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American indifference to human rights violations abroad, thus maybe even encouraging such offenses. Some committee members are troubled that Lefever's think tank accepted at least $25,000 from the Nestlé company after commissioning a study that turned out to support Nestlé's marketing of infant formula in developing countries (see following story). When Lefever told the committee he thought the human rights job offered only "an occasional opportunity to nudge history," Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois angrily lectured him: "It's important to do more than nudge history. We want an advocate, a spokesman...
...week's World Health Organization vote was never in doubt. Delegates to the WHO meeting in Geneva were considering an international code of conduct to restrict the advertising and marketing of baby formula, a processed, usually powdered substitute for mother's milk. The formula can lead to infant malnutrition and death when used improperly, so the WHO code had the support of doctors and government health officials all over the planet. The final tally was 118 to 1, a near miracle of consensus in any international forum. Which nation was it that cast the only no vote, thus...
...have adopted more children than we could easily care for financially or emotionally. Yet we continue to survive. We are grateful every day to the mothers of the eight of our eleven children who were adopted instead of aborted, even though none is a cute, cuddly infant. In fact, they are racially mixed, Asian, emotionally disturbed, physically handicapped, learning disabled and "too old" -but a total...
...Cambridge, reductions in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program--a federally funded nutrition and health-care program--will eliminate money for 600 of the 1800 people currently in the program. The report says that cuts in this program will eventually lead to increased infant mortality and incidents of birth defects; the combined cuts in WIC and Medicaid will strain Cambridge's ability to provide health care...
...which appears at the opening of the film. Kazem Ala told of the tortures he had both witnessed and experienced. At one point, though visibly shaken and upset, he continued o recount horrors he had seen (among them a story about a mother forced to watch while her infant son had his throat cut), explaining that "I have a duty to say this." And in Kazem Ala's confession about his own duty, the directors recognized and fulfilled their own duty as documentarists: to provide not just a dramatic and realistic message for the community, but to help...