marketing to children
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New global campaign encourages every organisation to Quit Big Tobacco
30th May 2018
In honour of World No Tobacco Day, the Quit Big Tobacco campaign is asking NCD Alliance's network, and other organisations with an interest in health not to work with ad agencies who work for the tobacco industry.
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Children and Youth
22nd January 2016
Numerous international and national laws, policies of governments and statements of international institutions and organisations of international civil society recognise the rights of children to adequate health care. Nonetheless, when it comes to addressing NCDs, children are too frequently left off (or insufficiently acknowledged in) the policy agenda. The NCD Alliance seeks to address this inequity and to recommend a framework for improvement.
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UNICEF calls to limit advertising of unhealthy food and beverages to children
01st July 2015
Unicef has urged Latin American countries, civil society and private sector to work together in order to limit advertising and marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children, since they encourage a pattern of consumption that can cause obesity and lead to non-communicable diseases in adulthood.