Can the United Nations system be mobilized to promote human rights-based approaches in preventing and ending childhood obesity?

Asbjørn Eide and Wenche Barth Eide

Chapter 9 in Ending Childhood Obesity, 2020, pp 219-250 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter considers the role of the United Nations in promoting the human right to adequate food and diet-related health with a focus on preventing childhood obesity. Former Secretary-General Kofi Annan attempted from 1997 to reinforce an original purpose of the UN, calling for a human rights-based approach to development. The chapter describes some obstacles to ensuring such a coherent approach. Different agencies of the UN have their own agendas which may lead them in different directions. The UN General Assembly’s proclamation of the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025 provides a new impetus. Special attention is given to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) as lead agencies for the Decade. The chapter concludes with some ideas for further action which require new and reinforced alliances to strengthen the UN’s work with a rights-based approach to malnutrition including childhood obesity.

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