Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition
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World Organization for Animal Health and other relevant stakeholders, such as the
United Nations Environment Programme and the Codex Alimentarius Commission,
reaffirming the importance of the political declaration of the high-level meeting of
the General Assembly on antimicrobial resistance, 11 looking forward to the report on
the issue to be submitted by the Secretary-General for consideration by Member
States at the seventy-third session of the Assembly, and recognizing also the results
of the efforts made by the ad hoc inter-agency coordination group on antimicrobial
resistance,
Recognizing also that coordinated health, social, economic and nutrition-related
policies are needed to address the health of the most vulnerable and marginalized,
who are often victims of inequity, inequality, discrimination, stigmatization, social
exclusion and violence, and are the most exposed to health risk factors, owing mostly
to their poor living conditions, poor health literacy and lack of access to health care
and other relevant services,
Acknowledging that the promotion of health equity and the elimination of stigma
and discrimination in health-care settings are important for achieving the Sustainable
Development Goals and building a more inclusive society whereby those who are
vulnerable or in vulnerable situations, especially women and girls, older persons,
indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons living with mental health
conditions or psychological disabilities, and those living with, at risk of or affected
by communicable diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and cholera, and
non-communicable and other diseases, will have a better quality of life and
well-being, and in this regard taking note of the joint United Nations statement on
ending discrimination in health-care settings,
Reiterating the importance of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition
(2016–2025), and its call for, inter alia, the scaling up of implementation of national
commitments and increasing investments for nutrition,
Welcoming the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), and in
this regard encouraging the full implementation of its resolution 72/239 of
20 December 2017, in which it recognized the role that family farms play in
improving nutrition and ensuring global food security, eradicating poverty, ending
hunger, conserving biodiversity, achieving environmental sustainability and helping
to address migration,
Recalling the World Health Organization Comprehensive Implementation Plan
on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition 12 and the World Health Organization
Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable
Diseases 2013–2020, 13
Taking note of the work of the Committee on World Food Security on preparing
the draft voluntary guidelines on food systems and nutrition of the Committee, in
support of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025), based on
the twelfth report of the High Level Panel of Experts on Nutrition and Food Systems
of the Committee,
Acknowledging the convening of Nutrition for Growth events in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, in 2016 and in Milan, Italy, in 2017, and the Partners ’ Forum 2018 in New
Delhi in December 2018, by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health,
and looking forward to the upcoming Nutrition for Growth summit in Tokyo in 2020,
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Resolution 71/3.
See World Health Organization, document WHA65/2012/REC/1.
See World Health Organization, document WHA66/2013/REC/1.
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