Can a human rights based approach accelerate reduction of undernutrition and obesity? (Video recording)

An interdisciplinary seminar hosted by the Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, organized in collaboration with FoHRC- Food, Human Rights and Corporations research & action network, the Centre for Global Health at the University of Oslo, and OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. Co-sponsored by UiO:Life Science. The organizers support the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025.

Full programme

The video can be seen in five consecutive files according to the seminar agenda (please consult the programme for quick overview!).

1: WELCOME AND OPENING WORDS

Welcome
Nanna Lien, Professor, Public Health Nutrition Group, Section for Nutrition Epidemiology, Department of Nutrition, Institute for Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Univesitetet I Oslo

Opening words
Per Morten Sandset, Professor, Vice-Rector for Research, University of Oslo, Member of UiO:Life Science Board

2: THE GLOBAL THREATS OF UNDERNUTRITION AND OBESITY

Moderator: Nanna Lien

The double burden of malnutrition and its impacts
Peter Milton Rukundo, Lecturer, Kyambogo University Department of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, Kampala, Uganda

Poverty, inequality and commercial interests as causes of maternal and child undernutrition
Liv Elin Torheim, Professor, Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University

Food systems and food environments as drivers of the global obesity epidemic
Nanna Lien, Professor, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

3: SOME EFFORTS TO REDUCE MALNUTRITION GLOBALLY

Moderator: Anne Lene Løvhaug, independent consultant, nutrition

WHO’s work to reduce malnutrition in all its forms in children: approaches and lessons learned
Kaia Engesveen, Technical Officer, Unit for Nutrition Policy and Scientific Advice, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva

Child obesity and attempts towards preventive action world-wide
Louise Meincke, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, World Cancer Research Fund International, London

The Norwegian experience to improve diets
Henriette Øien, Head of Department of Noncommunicable Diseases, Division of Public Health, Norwegian Directorate of Health

4: DIET-RELATED HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Moderator: Liv Elin Torheim

Adequate food and diet-related health as international legal human rights
Asbjørn Eide, Professor emeritus and co-founder, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - protecting children’s freedom from all forms of malnutrition
Katharina O’Cathaoir, Postdoc researcher, WELMA Research Group, Centre for Legal Studies in Welfare and Market, Faculty of Law, University of                            Copenhagen

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Obligations of States to protect and responsibilities of businesses to respect human rights
Bård Anders Andreassen, Professor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

Obligations of states to protect public health: the case of childhood obesity
Amandine Garde, Professor, Law & Non- Communicable Diseases Research Unit, Faculty of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool

Experiences from work with food businesses to respect human rights in food marketing activites related to children
Tulika Bansal, Senior Advisor, Human Rights and Business, Danish Institute of Human Rights

Marketing unhealthy foods to children in the digital age - challenges presented by intersecting rights
Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies, Open University, the UK

FAO’s work on the implementation of the human right to adequate food through the Right to Food Guidelines in the context of national food security and nutrition
Serena Pepino, Senior Advisor, Right to Food Team, Social Policies and Rural             Institutions Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations                (FAO), Rome

5: PANEL AND PLENARY DEBATE + CLOSING REMARKS

Moderator:  Brigit Toebes, Professor, Director of Global Health Law Groningen Research Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen

Panelists:

  • Asbjørn Eide
  • Bård Anders Andreassen
  • Katharina O’Cathaoir
  • Kaia Engesveen
  • Amandine Garde
  • Mimi Tatlow-Golden
  • Serena Pepino

1300-1315 CLOSING REMARKS
Wenche Barth Eide, Emerita, Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine; Coordinator of FoHRC research and action network (Food, Human Rights and    Corporations) at NCHR.

Published June 13, 2018 11:07 AM - Last modified June 18, 2019 2:34 PM