CI Event: Recommendations for a healthy diet

INVITATION TO PANEL DEBATE 6pm, 21 May: Geneva Press Club

Towards a Global Convention to Protect and Promote Healthy Diets:

Seeking urgent change after ten years of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet Physical Activity and Health Wednesday 21st May 6-7.30pm, with a wine reception afterwards Geneva Press Club La Pastorale, 106 route de Ferney, Geneva +41 22 546 14 44 Host: Amanda Long Director General, Consumers International Chair: Corinna Hawkes Head of Policy and Public Aairs, World Cancer Research Fund International Speakers: Olivier De Schutter UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Boyd Swinburn Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Melbourne Alejandro Calvillo Director, El Poder del Consumidor, Mexico

INVITATION TO PANEL DEBATE

6pm, 21 May: Geneva Press Club Consumers International invites you to the launch of its new publication, Recommendations towards a Global Convention to protect and promote healthy diets. The Recommendations, developed jointly with World Obesity Federation, call on the international community to commit to comprehensive action to address unhealthy diets, which now rank above tobacco as the world’s leading driver of preventable NCDs. The evening will include a panel discussion of the role a convention could play in shaping global diets for the better.

For further details, email nblascsok@consint.org