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Nutrition
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Rio2012 Declaration - Public Health and Nutrition in the 21st Century
Vienna Declaration on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases
Public Interest Civil Society Organizations Statement to the ICN 2 Open
Ended Working Group
Rome Declaration on Hunger
World Declaration on Nutrition
Rome Declaration on World Food Security
Final Declaration of The World Forum On Food Sovereignty, 2001
Declaration of the World Food Summit: Five Years Later, 2002
The Giessen Declaration (International Union of Nutritional Sciences),
2005
Declaration of Nyéléni, 2007
People’s Charter For Food And Nutrition Security, 2009
STOP disease-related malnutrition and diseases due to malnutrition!
Prague Declaration, 2009
Declaration from Social Movements/NGOs/CSOs Parallel Forum to the World
Summit on Food Security 2009
Declaration of The World Summit On Food Security, 2009
Joint Statement Calling For Food Rights of Infants (First Year of Life),
2010
Right to Food Resolution from the Central American Council of Human
Rights, 2011
Declaration from the South Asia Regional Peoples Convention on Food
Sovereignty, 2011
People’s Agreement of
Cochabamba, 2011
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World Nutrition Congress was held in Rio de Janeiro in April 2012 in
partnership between the World Public Health Nutrition Association (the
Association) and the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO).
It was the first major international nutrition meeting run successfully
without any funding from conflicted industries. Critical funding for the
congress came mainly from the Brazilian Ministry of Health, in addition to
support from many other Brazilian government agencies. The congress was held
at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), another crucial partner.
The Rio2012 Declaration is a product of the World Nutrition Rio2012
congress, which followed two years of discussion and consultation. The
Declaration derives from a process in which 1,800 professionals from 50
countries have participated.
Source: http://www.wphna.org/ and
http://wphna.org/conferences/world-nutrition-rio2012/
See Full Declaration here:
http://www.wphna.org/htdocs/downloadsjune2012/12-06%20WN5%20Rio%20Declaration%20introduction%20pdf%20SENT.pdf
At the WHO Ministerial Conference on Nutrition and Noncommunicable Diseases
in the Context of Health 2020, held in Vienna, Austria, 4–5 July 2013,
ministers of health, key partners and experts met to face the challenges
posed by the burden and threat of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and
reaffirm their commitment to existing European and global frameworks to
address important NCD risk factors, notably unhealthy diet and physical
inactivity. They declared their commitment to health promotion and NCD
prevention through this Declaration.
Source:
http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/events/events/2013/07/vienna-conference-on-nutrition-and-noncommunicable-diseases/documentation/vienna-declaration-on-nutrition-and-noncommunicable-diseases-in-the-context-of-health-2020
See Full Declaration here:
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/234381/Vienna-Declaration-on-Nutrition-and-Noncommunicable-Diseases-in-the-Context-of-Health-2020-Eng.pdf?ua=1
This document was prepared as a joint effort by the public interest civil
society organizations that are actively engaging the International
Conference on Nutrition 2 (ICN2) preparatory process. While the group is
diverse and positions might differ on specific issues, this statement
expresses the elements of common concern among this diverse group of
organizations.
Note - The ICN2 JWG (Joint Working Group) mandate and arrangements mentions
under paragraph10: Upon request by the JWG, civil society and private sector
organizations shall be consulted on the ICN2 draft Political Outcome
Document (POD), in line with the decisions of the Governing Bodies. Such
consultations shall be consistent with FAO and WHO policies regarding
interaction with Non-State Actors. The consultations may be web-based and
shall be conducted in such a way that civil society and private sector
inputs are publicly accessible, and are provided in time for considerations
by the membership in the development process of the draft Political Outcome
Document. FAO and WHO agreed to convene Informal Meetings to provide a forum
to exchange views with the NSA and Member States on ICN2. UN Partners, NSA,
and Member States were consulted on the ICN2 outcome documents through
meetings and web-consultations. Two Informal Meeting with Non-State Actors
on ICN2 were held on 20 June 2014 Rome (FAO and ) 11 July 2014 (Geneva, WHO)
Source:
http://www.unscn.org/en/international_conference_on_nutrition/second_international_conference_on_nutrition/nsa.php
Full Statement:
http://www.unscn.org/files/ICN2-2014/CSO_Statement_OEWG_-_Final_Version_-_21_Sep_14.pdf
From September 3 to 7, 2001, some 400 delegates from
peasant and indigenous organizations, fishing associations, non-governmental
organizations, social agencies, academics and researchers from 60 countries
around the world met in Havana, Cuba at the World Forum on Food Sovereignty.
This Forum was convened in Cuba by the Cuban National Association of Small
Farmers and a group of international movements, networks, organizations and
people committed to peasant and indigenous agriculture, artisanal fisheries,
sustainable food systems and the peoples' right to feed themselves. It also
served as recognition of the efforts of a Third World country which, despite
suffering over four decades of the illegal and inhuman blockade imposed by
the United States and the use of food as a weapon of economic and political
pressure, has managed to guarantee the human right to nutrition for all of
its population by way of a coherent, active, participatory and long-term
state policy based on profound agrarian reform, appreciation and support for
small and medium-sized producers, and the participation and mobilization of
the entire society.
Source: http://www.ukabc.org/
See full text of the Declaration at:
http://www.ukabc.org/havanadeclaration.pdf
The World Food Summit: five years later, which ended on
13 June 2002, called for an international alliance to accelerate action to
reduce world hunger. It also unanimously adopted a declaration calling on
the international community to fulfil an earlier pledge to cut the number of
hungry people to about 400 million by 2015. That pledge was made at the
original World Food Summit in 1996—the largest-ever global gathering of
leaders to address hunger and food security—and progress towards it remained
disappointingly slow. The World Food Summit: five years later, attended by
delegations from 179 countries plus the European Commission—73 led by heads
of state or government or their deputies—also called for:
• an intergovernmental working group to develop voluntary guidelines to
achieve the progressive realization of the right to food
• reversing the overall decline of agriculture and rural development in the
national budgets of developing countries, in assistance provided by
developed countries, and in lending by the international financing
institutions; and
• considering voluntary contributions to the FAO Trust Fund on Food Safety
and Food Security.
The Summit also offered a forum for all 'stakeholders' in the fight against
hunger—government officials; farming, forestry and fishing communities;
NGOs; the young; and indigenous groups.
Source:
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsummit/english/newsroom/news/8580-en.html
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/MEETING/005/Y7106E/Y7106E09.htm#TopOfPage
Extract: Nutrition science is defined as the study of
food systems, foods and drinks, and their nutrients and other constituents;
and of their interactions within and between all relevant biological, social
and environmental systems. The purpose of nutrition science is to contribute
to a world in which present and future generations fulfil their human
potential, live in the best of health, and develop, sustain and enjoy an
increasingly diverse human, living and physical environment. Nutrition
science should be the basis for food and nutrition policies. These should be
designed to identify, create, conserve and protect rational, sustainable and
equitable communal, national and global food systems, in order to sustain
the health, well-being and integrity of humankind and also that of the
living and physical worlds. There remains much work to be done in the
biological dimension of nutrition science. Much other important work now has
to be carried out also in the social and environmental dimensions: this will
require a broad, integrated approach. This Declaration emphasises that the
most relevant and urgent work to be done by professionals working in
nutrition science and in food and nutrition policy, is in its three
biological, social and environmental dimensions all together.
Source: www.wphna.org
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.wphna.org/downloadsnov2011/Giessen%20Declaration.pdf
Nyéléni was the inspiration for the name of the Forum for
Food Sovereignty in Sélingué, Mali. Nyéléni was a legendary Malian peasant
woman who farmed and fed her people well - she embodied food sovereignty
through hard work, innovation, and caring for her people. The participants
are and represent peasant farmers, herders, fishworkers, indigenous peoples,
migrant workers, women, and young people, who gathered at Nyéléni 2007. They
are food providers who are ready, able, and willing to feed all the world’s
peoples. This document is the outgoing final declaration after four days of
discussion and sharing.
Source:
http://www.world-governance.org
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.world-governance.org/IMG/pdf_0072_Declaration_of_Nyeleni_-_ENG.pdf
The Global Conference on Meeting Nutritional Challenges
with Sustainability and Equity was held on 2-3 August 2009 brought together
151 participants and experts representing India and other countries. The
participants included representatives from farmers groups, Rights based
organizations, women’s groups and groups working on rights of children,
public health, public interest groups, international groups and individuals.
The objective was to understand the global and national causes of hunger and
malnutrition as well as to evolve strategies to strengthen efforts to secure
the human right to food. This Charter has evolved as a result of the
deliberations over two days on identifying critical areas that need
political and government attention more than ever and urgently.
Source:
http://www.navdanya.org/campaigns/right-to-food
Representatives of health ministries from the EU’s Member
States; the Czech Presidency of the EU; medical experts; health care officials;
representatives of health insurance groups; ESPEN (the European Society for
Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism); and ENHA (the European Nutrition for
Health Alliance) reached the unanimous conclusion that malnutrition,
including disease-related malnutrition, is an urgent public health and
health care problem in Europe. Appropriate actions need to be taken to
prevent malnutrition from continuing to compromise the quality of life of
patients, to cause unnecessary morbidity and mortality and to undermine the
effectiveness of our health care systems across Europe. The Czech Presidency
of the EU invited leading experts in healthcare and health policy from
across Europe to meet in Prague on 11-12 June 2009 to address the urgency of
tackling this issue. This initiative followed the adoption of two
resolutions by the European Parliament in 2008 urging the European
Commission ‘to take a more holistic approach to nutrition and make
malnutrition, alongside obesity, a key priority in the field of health,
incorporating it whenever possible into EU-funded research, education and
health promotion initiatives and EU-level partnerships.’ In addition, the
European Parliament called on ‘Member States, along with regional and local
authorities, to use the cooperation mechanism to improve the exchange of
best practice’ and called on the Commission ‘to be pro-active in producing
guidelines and recommendations based on such good practice’.
Source:
http://www.senpe.com/praga.html
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.senpe.com/DOCS/PRAGA/Declaration_Prague_2009.pdf
Given that, for the first time in history, the growing
numbers of the hungry has surpassed the one billion mark, the FAO Council
has decided to hold a world summit on food security, November 16th to 18th
in order to keep the challenge of food insecurity on top of the
international agenda. The overall purpose of the Summit is to agree on key
actions to tackle this crisis. In words of FAO Director General Jacques
Diouf: “The silent hunger crisis – affecting one sixth of all of humanity –
poses a serious risk for world peace and security. We urgently need to forge
a broad consensus on the total and rapid eradication of hunger in the
world.” In addition to the meeting of Heads of State and Government,
parallel to the summit special events will be organised by National
Parliaments, the Private Sector, NGOs, CSOs and farmers’ and other food
producers’ organizations. Social Movements/NGO/CSO Parallel Forum as soon as
the summit was announced, social movements, NGOs and other CSOs started to
dialogue with FAO to organize a parallel Forum of Civil Society which will
include farmers, indigenous peoples, rural youth, women and other social
organizations. The moment is particularly important for civil society and
thus requires their major mobilization to change mainstream agricultural and
food policies and effectively address the root causes of hunger and poverty
in the current situation of multiple crises (climatic, economical, financial
and food crises). This change can only by affected through the active
participation of the food producers’ social movements and NGOs/CSOs
representing the people most affected by hunger.
Source: http://wocan.org
See PDF of the document at:
http://wocan.org/sites/drupal.wocan.org/files/final_declaration-en.pdf
We, the Heads of State and Government, or our Representatives and the
Representative of the European Community have assembled in Rome at the World
Summit on Food Security to take urgent action to eradicate hunger from the
world. In adopting this declaration we agree to undertake all necessary
actions required at national, regional and global levels and by all States
and Governments to halt immediately the increase in – and to significantly
reduce – the number of people suffering from hunger, malnutrition and food
insecurity. We will reinforce all our efforts to meet by 2015 the targets of
Millennium Development Goal 1 and the World Food Summits. We commit to take
action towards sustainably eradicating hunger at the earliest possible date.
Source: http://www.fao.org
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/wsfs/Summit/Docs/Final_Declaration/WSFS09_Declaration.pdf
A group of civil society organizations and individuals working on
children’s and women’s rights, child malnutrition , food and livelihood
rights, public health , professional organisations, economists and activists
came together to call upon the Chairperson of the UPA and the Prime
Minister, Government of India to:
1. Include infants and children below two years and in particular infants
0-6 months as a special vulnerable group in the Food Security Act.
2. Allocate budgetary resources of at least Rs.4/- per child per day for
infants 0-6 months old for the purpose of activities to implement the
National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding, with a special focus
on activities for infants 0-6 months.
3. Ensure that independent support and counseling on ‘breastfeeding and
infant and young child feeding is recognized as a key component under NRHM
and ICDS, with a specific budget allocation as is done for immunization.
4. Establish a national nutrition authority under the Prime Minister’s
Council on India’s
Nutrition Challenges to coordinate, supervise and provide technical guidance
to the
government on nutrition of infants and children as an urgent measure.
5. Effectively implement and universalize the maternity entitlements and
ensure the provision of Crèches at all work places and in the community,
both in the organised and unorganised sectors.
6. Ensure strict implementation and monitoring of the IMS ACT, including
ending of all kinds of promotion in the public health and nutrition system
This Joint Statement Calling For Food Rights of Infants (First Year of Life)
was presented to the Prime Minister of India on April 2010.
Source:
http://www.righttofoodindia.org
See PDF of the document at:
http://www.righttofoodindia.org/data/joint_statement_26march.pdf
The XLV Meeting of the Central American Council of Human Rights Attorneys
and Ombudsmen (Consejo Centroamericano de Procuradores de Derechos
Humanos,CCPDH), who met between 29-30 November in San Salvador, El Salvador,
produced a Regional Resolution for the Right to Food. This special
achievement was lead by the project Coherent Food Security Responses:
Incorporating Right to Food into Global and Regional Food Security
Initiatives and supported by the Hunger Free Latin America and the Caribbean
Initiative and the FAO Representation in El Salvador. The Regional
Resolution for the Right to Food requested the countries in the region to:
make food security and nutrition a matter of state policy; review and adopt
legislations for the effective protection of the right to food; allocate
budget for national programs that give priority attention to the most
vulnerable populations; create a system that provides transparency and
accountability in the evaluation and monitoring of the progress on poverty
reduction and on the nutritional status of the population and; strengthen
and allocate budget to national human rights institutions so they can fulfil
their role of protection of human rights and specially of the right to food.
See Spanish language PDF of the Declaration at:
http://km.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/fsn/docs/DECLARACI%C3%93N_DERECHO_A_LA_ALIMENTACION_DEFINITIVA.pdf
We the peasants, workers, fisher folk, indigenous communities, Dalit,
landless people, women groups, human rights groups youth and representatives
of other smallholder food producers of South Asia, representing NGOs/CSOs,
peoples movements from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka
have met at Kolkata from December 10-12, 2011 for Regional Peoples’
Convention and we also took part in a mass rally of small food producers at
Kolkata. The Peoples Convention intensively discussed status of food
security in South Asia, highlighting emerging challenges and demanding food
sovereignty; to replace the semi feudalism, imperialist globalization and
neo-liberalization processes, which have left millions of people in South
Asia starving and suffering from abject poverty. At the end of the
Convention we have jointly come out with a declaration which captures the
demands of the small food producers in South Asia for achieving their rights
and for ensuring a better world for all. With great concern we acknowledge
the sad reality that poverty situation has worsened in South Asia further
and South Asia remains the home of the largest number of poor and hungry in
the globe. Though majority of the South Asian nations have ratified almost
all major human rights declarations and covenants and accept the obligations
to respect, protect and fulfil right to food (RTF) of the people, little
initiatives have been taken at national levels to fulfil these promises.
Source: http://www.sacw.net/
See full text of Declaration at:
http://www.sacw.net/article2469.html
The People’s Agreement of Cochabamba, came out of the World People's
Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, on 22 April
2011 in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Extract from the PEOPLE’S AGREEMENT: “Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and
the future of humanity is in danger. If global warming increases by more
than 2 degrees Celsius, a situation that the “Copenhagen Accord” could lead
to, there is a 50% probability that the damages caused to our Mother Earth
will be completely irreversible. Between 20% and 30% of species would be in
danger of disappearing. Large extensions of forest would be affected,
droughts and floods would affect different regions of the planet, deserts
would expand, and the melting of the polar ice caps and the glaciers in the
Andes and Himalayas would worsen. Many island states would disappear, and
Africa would suffer an increase in temperature of more than 3 degrees
Celsius. Likewise, the production of food would diminish in the world,
causing catastrophic impact on the survival of inhabitants from vast regions
in the planet, and the number of people in the world suffering from hunger
would increase dramatically, a figure that already exceeds 1.02 billion
people. The corporations and governments of the so-called “developed”
countries, in complicity with a segment of the scientific community, have
led us to discuss climate change as a problem limited to the rise in
temperature without questioning the cause, which is the capitalist system.”
Source:
http://pwccc.wordpress.com
See full text of Agreement at:
http://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peoples-agreement/
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