#United Nations

Increasingly and more urgently concerned about the effects on children of unrestricted marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages, UNICEF and WHO have produced an invaluable manual on why and how governments must act to curb such marketing. This is a follow up to the UNICEF report I talked about

UNICEF does not want its statements to be compromised by conflicted interests with food and beverage companies that make formula or foods for children. Here’s how UNICEF will be dealing with the food and beverage interests. This publication explains just how UNICEF intends to avoid conflicts of

Earlier this week I wrote about the UNICEF-WHO meeting I went to in Geneva on implementing the 1981 International Code governing marketing of infant formulas. UNICEF has just issued an update: What I [meaning you] Should Know about the Code This new publication—a one-stop shopping guide to the

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, during the seventeenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has incribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity—ta

COP27 is the term used to refer to the 27th annual United Nations Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC [United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference) taking place last week and this week in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The New York Times has a COP27 explainer with a Q and A What is at