Ending Childhood Obesity

Edited by Amandine Garde, Joshua Curtis and Olivier De Schutter

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Abstract: Childhood obesity is one of the most pressing global public health challenges of the 21st century. In response, States need to employ a multisectoral approach including labelling rules, food marketing restrictions and fiscal policies. However, these legal measures interact in a complex fashion with international economic and human rights law raising a range of legal questions. This timely book edited by Garde, Curtis and De Schutter explores these questions offering insightful perspectives. Of fundamental interest to legal professionals and academics, Ending Childhood Obesity also makes the legal complexities accessible to a broad range of public health and other policy actors addressing obesity and related non-communicable diseases.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
ISBN: 9781788114011
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Ending childhood obesity: Introducing the issues and the legal challenge , pp 1-28

Amandine Garde, Joshua Curtis and Olivier De Schutter

Ch 2 International human rights and childhood obesity prevention , pp 30-56

Sarah A. Roache and Oscar A. Cabrera

Ch 3 The childs right to health as a tool to end childhood obesity , pp 57-85

Katharina Ó Cathaoir and Mette Hartlev

Ch 4 Human rights, childhood obesity and health inequalities , pp 86-110

Marine Friant-Perrot and Nikhil Gokani

Ch 5 Sugar as commodity or health risk: The unmaking or remaking of international trade law? , pp 112-137

Gregory Messenger

Ch 6 Using food labelling laws to combat childhood obesity: Lessons from the EU, the WTO and Codex , pp 138-160

Caoimhín MacMaoláin

Ch 7 Investment protection agreements, regulatory chill, and national measures on childhood obesity prevention , pp 161-184

Mavluda Sattorova

Ch 8 International trade and childhood obesity: A Caribbean perspective , pp 185-217

Nicole Foster

Ch 9 Can the United Nations system be mobilized to promote human rights-based approaches in preventing and ending childhood obesity? , pp 219-250

Asbjørn Eide and Wenche Barth Eide

Ch 10 Combatting obesogenic commercial practices through the implementation of the best interests of the child principle , pp 251-281

Amandine Garde and Seamus Byrne

Ch 11 Multinational food corporations and the right to health: Achieving accountability through mandatory human rights due diligence? , pp 282-308

Oliver Bartlett

Ch 12 Bridging governance gaps with extraterritorial human rights obligations: Accessing home State courts to end childhood obesity , pp 309-338

Joshua Curtis

Ch 13 Overcoming the legal challenge to end childhood obesity: Pathways towards positive harmonization in law and governance , pp 339-369

Joshua Curtis and Amandine Garde

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