I cannot comment on who finally signed the US on to the WHO Code, nor when, 
but it is common knowledge that there was originally only one (not two) 
dissenting votes.  In 1981 the WHO Code was passed by a vote of 118 to 1, 
the United States being the sole dissenting country.  Perhaps there is some 
confusion between the Code and the Convention on the Rights of the Child 
(1989-90) which only two countries in the world have not ratified - the US 
and Somalia.

If the US has signed the Code now though, why is it not implemented??   And 
is this connected in some way to non-ratification of the CRC??

Pamela Morrison IBCLC


>     Clinton was the US president who finally signed the  US onto the WHO
>Code, 13 years after most of the rest of the world did in 1981.  (Switzerland
>abstained, and the US and South Africa were against.)
>     warmly,

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