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Statements

• Nutrition security of urban populations: A call for attention and joint action. UNSCN Statement for the Sixth World Urban Forum (Naples, Italy) - download here

• Statement by the UNSCN at the 9th Session of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory  Committee prepared for the presentation of two draft reports by the Advisory Committee on discrimination and the right to food of the urban poor and rural women on 8 August 2012 - download here.

• Climate change & nutrition security - Message to the UNFCCC negotiators  UNSCN Policy Brief  prepared for the 16th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP16), Cancun, 29 November - 10 December 2010 - download here.

• Nutrition and the MDGs: accelerating progress towards 2015 UNSCN statement prepared for the UN MDG Summit in New York (20-22 September 2010) - download here.

• Implications of climate change on undernutrition UNSCN statement prepared for the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen (7-18 December 2009) - download here.


• Accelerating the reduction of maternal and child undernutrition
  Recommendations from the 35th SCN Session Hanoi, 2008. With detailed notes providing access to programme and policy guidance (June 2008) - download here.

• Actions to be taken in Relation to Global Obligations for the Right to Food
  Recommendations of the Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights (March 2008) - download here.

• World nutrition is under threat
  Statement by the Civil Society constituency of the SCN at the 35th SCN Session (March 2008) - download here.

• Establishing stunting as an additional indicator of endemic poverty to monitor progress made towards the achievement of MDG 1
  Draft Statement from the SCN Task Force on Assessment, Monitoring & Evaluation (March 2008) - download here.

• Community-based management of severe acute malnutrition
  Joint Statement by the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme, the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition and the United Nations Children's Fund (June 2007) - download here (english version) or here (french version).

Update 2011

• Use of the new WHO Child Growth Standards in emergency nutrition programmes
  Draft Statement v 4. SCN Working Group on Nutrition in Emergencies (February 2007) - download here.

• The double burden of malnutrition - A challenge for cities worldwide
  SCN Statement at the Third World Urban Forum, Vancouver (June 2006) - download here.

• The human right of children and adolescents to adequate food and to be free from obesity and related diseases: the responsibilities of food and beverage corporations and related media and marketing industries
  Joint Statement by the SCN Working Group on Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle and the Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights (March 2006) - download here.

• Avian Influenza
  Statement by the Working Group on Household Food Security (March 2006) - download here.

• Double Burden of Malnutrition - A Common Agenda
  Participants' Statement at its 33rd Annual Session (March 2006) - download here.

• Joint Declaration
  Joint declaration signed by representatives of Angola, Bolivia, Brazil and Mozambique at the closing session of the 32nd SCN Session (March 2005) - download signed joint declaration, Portuguese text, or English translation

• Nutrition in Conflict and Crisis
  Statement by the SCN at its 29th Session (March 2002) - download here.

• Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
  Statement by the ACC/SCN at its 28th Session (April 2001) - download here.