Posts Tagged ‘Derecho a la alimentación’
#PeasantsRightsNow
Protecting the rights of peasants and rural workers implies the protection of the fundamental rights guaranteed to the rest of the population, including those in urban areas, given the impact that food production has on the rights to health and a healthy environment.
Read MoreBill in Congress seeks to stop advertising of unhealthy food for minors
The project’s objective is to reduce the negative impact of consumption of unhealthy products, often advertised as “nutritious or healthy foods”, on the well-being of children.
Read MoreSugary censorship
It is unacceptable that an economic group uses its media outlets to restrict freedom of expression and silence critics of one of its companies.
Read MoreThe pressures that healthy food activists face
Aggressive, illegal and corrupt tactics by the industries they oppose.
Read MoreThe pressures that advocates for healthy food face
It is no secret that health activists, particularly those taking on the tobacco industry, have faced aggressive, illegal and corrupt tactics deployed by the industries that these activists battle.
Read MoreFisherfolk file a tutela to save Santa Marta’s Ciénaga Grande
The environmental crisis of this ecosystem, which has caused massive fish deaths, inspired a group of citizens to engage in a judicial battle to claim the protection of their right to a healthy environment, decent life, and work.
Read MoreIt is not only sugar: soda also uses more water than you can imagine
Shouldn’t consumers know how many hundreds of liters of water are used throughout the production chain of a liter of soda?
Read MoreWe presented a tutela in defense of the Great Ciénaga of Santa Marta
On November 10th, we presented a tutela action regarding the environmental degradation situation that affects the Great Ciénaga of Santa Marta. The ciénaga is a strategic ecosystem composed by a collection of lakes and wetlands, declared Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO and protected by the RAMSAR Convention.
Read MoreDejusticia publishes document with legal reasons in favor of the sugary drinks tax
Ad portas of a
tax reform, Dejusticia publishes a policy paper on the viability and importance
of the tax on sugary drinks as a public health measure to disincentive
consumption.
The sugar conspiracy
Conspiracy
theories are less often than not on point. Social phenomena are often
more complex than the stories of furtive strategies and collective fraud that complot theorists suggest. To prove whether conspiracies
do exist is a difficult matter that tests the efforts of memorable
journalists or researchers.
Campaign to raise awareness about the harm of sugary drinks
In Colombia, more than 50% of the population suffers from obesity or overweight. Sugary drinks have a direct effect on this statistic.
Read MoreHunger and Obesity: Two Faces of Inequality
Hunger and obesity are avoidable in today’s world. They are the result of political decisions that States have made regarding the production, commercialization, and distribution of food.
