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Table 2 List of the key instruments

From: The utilisation of legal instruments by United Nations actors to restrict the exposure of children to unhealthy food and beverage marketing: a qualitative content analysis of UN instruments

WHO

2004- Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health [37]

2008- Action Plan for the Global Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable diseases 2008–2013 [38]

2010- WHO Set of Recommendations on the Marketing of Foods and Non-alcoholic Beverages to Children (WHO Set of Recommendations) [39]

2012- Framework for implementing the WHO Set of Recommendations [40]

2013- Global Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2013–2020 [41]

2016- Report of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity [7]

2017- Appendix 3 of Global Action Plan: Tackling NCDs: ‘Best Buys’ and other recommended interventions for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases [42].

Cat C

FAO (in collaboration with WHO)

2014- Rome Declaration on Nutrition: Conference Outcome Document of the Second International Conference on Nutrition [43]

2014- Framework for Action to implement the Rome Declaration on Nutrition [44]

Cat C

UNGA

2011- Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Non-Communicable Diseases [45]

2014- Outcome document of the High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Non-communicable diseases [46]

2018- Political declaration of the 3rd High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Non-Communicable Diseases [47]

Cat C

UN Human Rights

2000- UN Convention on Rights of the Child (UNCRC) [48]

2013- Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment No. 15 (2013) on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (art. 24) [49]

2013- Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment No. 16 (2013) on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights [50]

2014- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health: unhealthy foods, non-communicable diseases and the right to health [51]

2014 - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food: The transformative potential of the right to food [52]

2016- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health: Sport and healthy lifestyles as contributing factors to the Right to health [53]

2020: Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health on the adoption of front-of-package warning labelling to tackle NCDs [54]

2021- Committee on the Rights of the Child General Comment No. 25 (2021) on children’s rights in relation to the digital environment [55]

Cat A for UNCRC

Cat B for remainder

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