The Congress of the Republic of Colombia has enacted Law 2361 of 2024, whose purpose is to establish general guidelines for the creation of a public policy focused on breastfeeding, complementary feeding and the promotion of breast milk donation for human milk banks. This law aims to promote healthy and sustainable practices in infant nutrition at the national level.

The norm integrates key definitions, highlighting complementary feeding, which begins at six months of age and extends up to 24 months, maintaining breastfeeding. It also defines the concept of human milk banks, describing them as institutions responsible for the collection, quality control, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of breast milk for preventive, therapeutic and research purposes.

In order to recognize breastfeeding as a human right, promote it and guarantee its exercise, the local Congress approved the ruling on the initiative to amend and add numeral 1, section C of Article 9 of the Political Constitution of Mexico City.

With this legal amendment, the right to breastfeeding is incorporated into the local Magna Carta as a human right, considering both the best interest of the child and the free self-determination of women with respect to their bodies, and establishes that, as a result, secondary legislation must guarantee its full exercise.