Last updated: 10 April 2008
World Consumer Rights Day 2008 is here!
This year, World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) takes place on Saturday 15 March 2008.
The theme is Junk Food Generation: The Consumers International (CI) campaign to stop the marketing of unhealthy food to children.
CI is asking the World Health Organization (WHO) for an international code to ban the marketing of unhealthy food to children.
Around the world CI member organisations are uniting in an international day of action to highlight the damage done by junk food marketing and to urge government ministers to support the Code ahead of the World Health Assembly (WHA) in May 2008.
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Junk Food Generation - the need for action
Unhealthy diets are a major cause of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers, which are on the rise especially in low and middle-income countries.
These preventable diseases come at a massive cost to human life, people's livelihoods and the health service.
About 22 million children around the world under the age of five are already overweight or obese and we must act to prevent the spread of the childhood obesity epidemic.
Consumers International (CI) and its member organisations are campaigning to stop the marketing of unhealthy food to children.
We're asking the World Health Organization (WHO) to introduce an international code on the marketing of unhealthy food to children.
Want to know more?
If you would like to find out more about the marketing of unhealthy food to children and also how you can get involved in CI's campaign, read the information set out below:
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