TY - JOUR
T1 - International human rights law and the prevention of childhood obesity
AU - Gorman, Emma
AU - Handsley, Elizabeth
PY - 2017/9/2
Y1 - 2017/9/2
N2 - This article surveys the application of international human rights law to obesity prevention laws, such as restrictions on marketing unhealthy food to children, interpretive front-of-pack labelling, healthy food policies in schools and the public sector, and taxes on unhealthy products. It discusses the right to health, the right to food, freedom of commercial speech, the rights of the child and a range of World Health Organization initiatives. Such instruments can provide both constitutional power and political cover for such measures, as well as providing policy guidance in selecting the most appropriate ones.
AB - This article surveys the application of international human rights law to obesity prevention laws, such as restrictions on marketing unhealthy food to children, interpretive front-of-pack labelling, healthy food policies in schools and the public sector, and taxes on unhealthy products. It discusses the right to health, the right to food, freedom of commercial speech, the rights of the child and a range of World Health Organization initiatives. Such instruments can provide both constitutional power and political cover for such measures, as well as providing policy guidance in selecting the most appropriate ones.
KW - commercial speech
KW - obesity prevention
KW - right to food
KW - Right to health
KW - rights of the child
KW - World Health Organization
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2017.1403876
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045024193&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1323238X.2017.1403876
DO - 10.1080/1323238X.2017.1403876
M3 - Article
VL - 23
SP - 390
EP - 409
JO - Australian Journal of Human Rights
JF - Australian Journal of Human Rights
SN - 1323-238X
IS - 3
ER -