Vision of the mandate 2014, para. 28

Paragraph
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Paragraph text
In general, food and nutrition security policies continue to treat women primarily as mothers, focusing on the nutrition of infants and young children or pregnant women, rather than addressing constraints on women’s economic and social participation. Teenage mothers, women without children and women of post-reproductive age with specific nutritional needs are generally not considered within those policies, and this must change
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Health
Person(s) affected
  • Adolescents
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Women
Year
2014
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2014), A/69/275, para. 28
Paragraph number
28