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51.
The private sector, consistent with its responsibility to respect the right to
adequate food, should:
(a)
Comply fully with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk
Substitutes, abstaining from promoting breast-milk substitutes, and comply with the
WHO recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to
children, even where local enforcement is weak or non-existent;
(b)
Abstain from imposing nutrition-based interventions where local
ecosystems are able to support sustainable diets, and systematically ensure that such
interventions prioritize local solutions and are consistent with the objective of moving
towards sustainable diets;
(c)
Ensure, in the sourcing chains of fortified foods and nutrition-based
interventions, that workers are paid living wages, and that farmers are paid fair
prices for their products to ensure the right to adequate food of all people affected by
the interventions;
(d)
Shift away from the supply of HFSS foods and towards healthier foods
and phase out the use of trans-fatty acids in food processing.
52.
WHO, in discharging the mandate assigned to it by the General Assembly,79
should:
(a)
Take into account the role of adequate diets in the realization of the right
to adequate food and the right to the highest attainable standard of health, and
include human rights principles of accountability, participation and nondiscrimination in the design of a comprehensive global monitoring framework to
address non-communicable diseases, as well as in the indicator frameworks for
nutrition under preparation;
(b)
Consider the findings of the present report in preparing
recommendations for a set of voluntary global targets for the prevention and control
of non-communicable diseases.
53.
The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Transition Team and stakeholders involved in
SUN should:
(a)
Improve the SUN agenda by basing all interventions on the human
rights principles of accountability, participation, and non-discrimination, and fit them
under broader national strategies for the realization of the right to food adopting a
life-course approach in order to improve their effectiveness and their ability to
contribute to sustainable, long-term solutions;
(b)
Take appropriate steps to ensure that such interventions strengthen local
food systems and favour the switch to sustainable diets.
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Ibid., paras. 60-63.
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