United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Thirty-Third Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Working Group on Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle

Wednesday 15 March 2006, 0900-1200 hours
Geneva International Conference Centre, Room 3

Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle Chair: Ricardo Uauy (UNU)
Co-Chair: Ted Greiner (PATH)

 

Time Topic
This is a Joint Meeting with the Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights
0900-0925  Introduction
  • Opening and explanation of the joint session Ted Greiner, 5 minutes
  • Applying a human rights approach to child malnutrition Wenche Barth Eide, 5 minutes
  • Definition of malnutrition in all its forms Ricardo Uauy, 5 minutes
  • Discussion 10 minutes
0925-1050 MDGs, child survival and malnutrition
  • Nutrition and Child survival in the International Agenda: London School meeting; Lancet series; Johns Hopkins meeting: Zulfiqar Bhuta Aga Khan University, 10 minutes
  • WHO/UNICEF/SCN Oct 05 Consultation on addressing severe malnutrition in community and health services WHO, 5 minutes
  • Perceptions and practices related to pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and low birth weight Kathy Kurz, ICRW, 5 minutes
  • Malnutrition Task Force: Introduction Alan Jackson Univ Southampton, 10 minutes
  • Progress in South and South East Asia Tamid Ahmed, ICCDR,B, 10 minutes
  • Bolivia’s efforts and plans to prevent malnutrition: Ana Maria Aguilar Malnutrition Zero Program (or Minister of Health), 20 minutes
  • South Africa, Progress in Sub Saharan Africa David Sanders, 10 minutes
  • Discussion 15 minutes
1050-1155 Childhood obesity and a human rights approach
  • Report from meeting in Kobe and WHO plans for action Chizuru Nishida, 10 minutes
  • The role of the food industry in the etiology of childhood obesity: can a human rights approach halt aggressive marketing practices towards children and adolescents? WG/NEHR Co-chair, 10 minutes
  • UN efforts to bring a human rights perspective on the performance of transnational corporations and other business enterprises in general. Representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 20 minutes
  • Presentation of draft SCN Statement: ”The human right of children and adolescents to adequate food and to be free from obesity and related diseases” WG/NHR Co-chair, 5 minutes
  • Discussion and recommendation to the SCN, 20 minutes
1155-1200 Discussion of future topics, 5 minutes
  • Low birth weight/fetal growth
  • Nutrition in the elderly
  • Women’s nutrition