United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Thirty-Fourth Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights

Draft Agenda (2 Feb 2007)

Chair: Margret Vidar (FAO)
Co-Chairs: Flavio Valente (FIAN), Federica Donati (OHCHR), Marlis Lindecke (GTZ)
Rapporteur: Marc Cohen (IFPRI)
 

Sunday 25 February 2007
Pre-Session meeting, by invitation only
Time Topic
Part I: Opening
Chair: Margret Vidar
0900-0930 Opening and welcome; adoption of the agenda, report of the meeting
Margret Vidar
Part II: Task Forces of the WGNEHR
Chair: Margret Vidar
0930-1000 Task Force on indigenous peoples
Harriet Kühnlein
Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss: UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by Human Rights Council, biodiversity and nutrition follow-up.
1000-1045 Task Force on the international dimension
George Kent
Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss: Book project. Recommendations to SCN, from SCN.
1045-1130 Task Force on responsibilities of the corporate food sector
Kate Baillie
Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss: Sidney Principles and other initiatives.

Proposed Brazilian regulations on marketing of food to children
Ana Beatriz Vasconcellos/Flavio Valente
1130-1215 Task Force on capacity building
Wenche Barth Eide
Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss
Part III: Working together
Chair: Marlis Lindecke
1215-1300 WGNEHR inputs to other SCN activities:
1300-1330 Lunch Break
1330-1400 Discussion about WGNEHR views on Ending Child Hunger and Undernutrition Initiative –ECHUI
George Kent
140-1430 SCN/WGNEHR as umbrella for joint actions on the right to food: how could it work in practice? Capacity building, technical cooperation, advocacy etc.
Wenche Barth Eide
Part IV: Linking international and national efforts
Chair: Marlis Lindecke
1430-1515 School feeding programmes from a right to food perspective
Ellen Mühlhoff, Maarten Immink
Albaneide Peixinho Ministry of Education, Brazil
1515-1550 Any other business, summing up and closing
Margret Vidar


PRO MEMORIA
Format for the Report of WGNEHR at 34th SCN

  • Part one: Follow up action taken during the year on recommendations made at the last meeting. This should include a brief description of actions taken, problems encountered, and remaining to be carried out. If no action has been taken this needs to be mentioned, so that collaborators can be identified and obstacles removed.
  • Part two:
    • Continued discussion of plans to fill gaps in knowledge and practice and especially related to one or two hot topics discussed during the session;
    • Summary comments of the Working Group to the ECHUI Global Framework and Work Plan;
    • Three main recommendations by the Working Group for SCN action in the coming year.
  • Part three: Group's Work Plan for the coming year, including tasks and activities to be developed by whom and when. (Format will follow).

 

Tuesday 27 February 2007
1800-2000 Presenters are kindly invited to speak for two thirds or less of their allocated time in order to allow enough time for discussions.
Time Topic
1800-1815  Summary conclusions and recommendations from pre-sessional meeting of WGNEHR
Marc Cohen, Rapporteur
1815-1830 Marketing to children – an update on current initiatives
Philip James
1830-1845 Recommendations to SCN on the international dimension on the right to food
George Kent
1845-1900

Effects of Avian Influenza on the Realization of the Right to Food. 
Marlis Lindecke 
Item presented jointly with the WG on Household Food Security.
1900-1930 Rights-based school feeding in practice: Experience of Brazil
Albaneide Peixinho
Item presented jointly with the WG on School Age Children
1930-2000 Integrating human rights into Bolivia’s Zero Malnutrition program
Dr Nila Heredia, Minister of Health of Bolivia

 

Background documents

General WGNEHR

Agenda of WGNEHR at SCN 33rd (2006) session
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/AnnualMeeting/SCN33/agenda_humanrights.htm 

Report of 33rd session: Proposed WGNEHR 2006-2007 work programme
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/AnnualMeeting/SCN33/wg_humanrights/NEHR%202006-07%20Workplan%20and%20FollowupRev2Wen.doc 

Responsibilities of the corporate food sector (Marketing to children) Joint statement of WGNEHR and WGNTLC (2006)
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/AnnualMeeting/SCN33/Joint%20Statement%20WG%20NEHR%20&%20life%20cycle.doc 

Sidney Principles
www.iotf.org/sydneyprinciples

Other initiatives

IOTF Briefing Paper: Marketing to Children (pdf)

Global Prevention Alliance (MS Word)

Indigenous issues

UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/docs/declaration.doc 

ECHUI (please note new updates are expected early February 2007)
http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/resources/wfp111813.pdf http://www.unicef.org/about/execboard/files/ECHUI-from_excel.pdf 

Avian influenza
http://www.poultry.kvl.dk/upload/poultry/news/pah_dokumentation_short_version_end_051206__2_.pdf 

Reports on the World Nutrition Situation
http://www.unsystem.org/scn/Publications/html/RWNS.html 

SCN engagement with the private sector
http://www.unsystem.org/SCN/Publications/html/private_sector.htm