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Policies and programmes involving youth (2020), para. 34
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- 9. Reiterates that the eradication of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, in particular as they affect children and youth, is crucial for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, recalls the commitment to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions and promote sustained economic growth, sustainable development and global prosperity for all, including the strengthening of international cooperation through the fulfilment of all official development assistance commitments and the transfer of appropriate technology and capacity-building with regard to youth, and the need for urgent action on all sides, including more ambitious national development strategies, efforts and investment in youth, backed by increased international support and, inter alia, by providing youth with a nurturing environment for the full realization of their human rights and capabilities, in order to realize the opportunity of the demographic dividend offered by the largest number of young people ever in the history of humankind, and calls for the increased participation of youth, youth-led and youth-focused organizations and other relevant civil society organizations in the development of such national development strategies;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2018), para. 34
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- (vi) Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to food insecurity, severe hunger, malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
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The girl child (2018), para. 63
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- 38. Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food requirements for an active and healthy life;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
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Triennial policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system (1996), para. 74
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- 49. Takes note of the mission statement of the World Food Programme and the decision of the executive boards of the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund and of the United Nations Children’s Fund to establish mission statements for their respective organizations;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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The right to food (2018), para. 31
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- 3. Considers it intolerable that, as estimated by the United Nations Children’s Fund, nearly half of all deaths of children under the age of 5 are attributable to undernutrition, translating into the loss of about 3 million young lives a year and that, as estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about 815 million people in the world suffer from chronic hunger owing to the lack of sufficient food for the conduct of an active and healthy life, including as one of the effects derived from food insecurity, while, according to the Organization, the planet could produce enough food to feed everyone around the world;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Youth
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Rights of the child: the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (2013), para. 038
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- 11. Calls upon all States and, if appropriate, relevant international organizations, to combat all forms of malnutrition and to support the national plans and programmes of countries to improve nutrition in poor households, in particular plans and programmes that are aimed at combating undernutrition in mothers and children, and those targeting the irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, up to the age of 2 years, and to reaffirm the rights of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger so as to be able to fully develop and maintain their physical and mental capacities;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2020), para. 47
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- 37. Expresses grave concern about the long-term impact of continued cuts in food rations on the health and well-being of refugees globally, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and especially its impact on children, owing to insufficient funding and increased costs, and calls upon States to ensure sustained support for the Office of the High Commissioner and the World Food Programme, while looking to provide refugees with alternatives to food assistance, pending a durable solution;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2018), para. 49
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- (ff) Taking appropriate measures to adopt or develop legislation and policies that provide rural women with access to land and support women’s cooperatives and agricultural programmes, including for subsistence agriculture, in order to contribute to school feeding programmes as a pull factor to keep children, in particula r girl children, in school, noting that school meals and take-home rations attract and retain children in schools and recognizing that school feeding is an incentive to enhance enrolment and reduce absenteeism, especially for girls;
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Women
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2018), para. 20
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- Noting with concern the findings of the United Nations that well over half of the people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea suffer from major insecurities in food and medical care, including a very large number of pregnant and lactating women and children under 5 who are at risk of malnutrition, and nearly a quarter of its total population is suffering from chronic malnutrition, condemning th e Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for diverting its resources into pursuing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles over the welfare of its people, and emphasizing the necessity for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to respect and ensure the welfare and inherent dignity of the people in the country, as referred to by the Security Council in its resolutions 2321 (2016) of 30 November 2016, of 5 August 2017 and 2375 (2017) of 11 September 2017,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
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Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition (2019), para. 33
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- Acknowledging the convening of Nutrition for Growth events in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016 and in Milan, Italy, in 2017, and the Partners’ Forum 2018 in New Delhi in December 2018, by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and looking forward to the upcoming Nutrition for Growth summit in Tokyo in 2020,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2001), para. 30
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- 20. Expresses its grave concern at the high rates of malnutrition among pre- school-aged children, which constitute serious violations of their rights to adequate food and the highest attainable standard of health and may have serious repercussions for the health and development of the affected children;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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Follow-up to the development outcome of the 2005 World Summit, including the Millennium Development Goals and the other internationally agreed development goals (2006), para. 64
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- 45. Reiterates that the eradication of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, particularly as they affect children, is crucial for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and that rural and agricultural development should be an integral part of national and international development policies, calls for increased productive investment in rural and agricultural development to achieve food security, in this regard calls for enhanced support for agricultural development and trade capacity-building in the agricultural sector in developing countries, including by the international community and the United Nations system, and encourages support for commodity development projects, especially market-based projects, and for their preparation under the Second Account of the Common Fund for Commodities;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2020), para. 39
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- (vii) Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to food insecurity, severe hunger, malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2019), para. 48
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- 38. Expresses grave concern about the long-term impact of continued cuts in food rations on the health and well-being of refugees globally, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, and especially its impact on children, owing to insufficient funding and increased costs, and in this regard calls upon States to ensure sustained support for the Office of the High Commissioner and the World Food Programme, while looking to provide refugees with alternatives to food assistance, pending a durable solution;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons on the move
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The right to food (2019), para. 41
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- 3. Considers it intolerable that, as estimated by the United Nations Children’s Fund, up to 45 per cent of the children who die every year before the age of 5 die from undernutrition and hunger-related illness and that, as estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the number of people in the world affected by undernourishment, or chronic food deprivation, increased from around 804 million in 2016 to nearly 821 million in 2017;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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The right to food (2020), para. 44
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- 3. Considers it intolerable that, as estimated by the United Nations Children’s Fund, up to 45 per cent of the children who die every year before the age of 5 die from undernutrition and hunger-related illness, at least one in three children __________________ under the age of 5 is undernourished or overweight and one in two suffers from hidden hunger, undermining the capacity of millions of children to grow and develop to their full potential, and that, as estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, more than 820 million people in the world are still hungry today, underscoring the immense challenge of achieving the zero hunger target by 2030 ;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2018), para. 44
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- 5. Expresses its very deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the country, which could rapidly deteriorate owing to limited resilience to natural disasters and to government policies causing limitations in the availability of and access to adequate food, compounded by structural weaknesses in agricultural production resulting in significant shortages of diversified food and the State restrictions on the cultivation of and trade in foodstuffs, as well as the prevalence of chronic and acute malnutrition, particularly among the most vulnerable groups, pregnant and lactating women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners, and urges the Government of the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea, in this regard, to take preventive and remedial action, cooperating with international donor agencies and in accordance with international standards for monitoring humanitarian assistance;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2017), para. 39
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- 9. Takes note of the Global Nutrition for Growth Compact, signed by more than 100 countries, companies and civil society organizations, to reduce the number of stunted children by 20 million by 2020 and the financial commitments made to support this goal, as well as the second Nutrition for Growth event, which was held in August 2016;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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Situation of human rights in Myanmar (2002), para. 35
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- 25. Expresses its grave concern at the high rates of malnutrition among pre- school-aged children, which constitutes serious violations of their rights to adequate food and the highest attainable standard of health and may have serious repercussions for the health and development of the affected children;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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The right to food (2019), para. 49
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- 11. Calls upon all States and, if appropriate, relevant international organizations to take measures and support programmes that are aimed at combating undernutrition in mothers, in particular during pregnancy, and in children, and the irreversible effects of chronic undernutrition in early childhood, in particular from birth to the age of 2 years;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Infants
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2019), para. 45
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- 5. Expresses its very deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the country, which could rapidly deteriorate owing to limited resilience to natural disasters and to government policies causing limitations in the availability of and access to adequate food, compounded by structural weaknesses in agricultural production resulting in significant shortages of diversified food and the State restrictions on the cultivation of and trade in foodstuffs, as well as the prevalence of chronic and acute malnutrition, particularly among the most vulnerable groups, pregnant and lactating women, children, persons with disabilities, older perso ns and political prisoners, and urges the Government of the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea, in this regard, to take preventive and remedial action, cooperating with international donor agencies and in accordance with international standards for monitoring humanitarian assistance;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
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The right to food (2010), para. 21
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- 3. Considers it intolerable that, as estimated by the United Nations Children’s Fund, more than one third of the children who die every year before the age of 5 do so from hunger-related illness, and that, as estimated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the number of people who are undernourished has grown to about 1.02 billion worldwide, including as a result of the global food crisis, while, according to the latter organization, the planet could produce enough food to feed everyone around the world;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2019), para. 10
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- Acknowledging General Assembly resolution 73/180, in which the Assembly noted with concern the findings of the United Nations that over 10 million people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were estimated to be undernourished and that most children under 24 months of age and 50 per cent of pregnant and breastfeeding women had insufficient dietary diversity, leading to micronutrient deficiencies and an unacceptably high prevalence of chronic and acute malnutrition, condemning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for its national policies that, among others, divert its resources into pursuing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles over the welfare of its people and their access to food, and emphasizing the necessity for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to respect and ensure the welfare and inherent dignity of the people in the country, as referred to by the Security Council in its resolutions 2321 (2016) of 30 November 2016, 2371 (2017) of 5 August 2017, 2375 (2017) of 11 September 2017 and 2397 (2017) of 22 December 2017,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2020), para. 60
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- 11. Urges increased political commitment by Member States to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition, notes in this regard the Scaling Up Nutrition movement, and encourages Member States to engage in the movement at the global and country levels to reduce the increasing level in global hunger and all forms of malnutrition, in particular among children, especially children under 2 years of age, women, especially those who are pregnant and lactating, and youth;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
- Youth
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2016), para. 14
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- Reaffirming also the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, so that they may be able to fully develop and maintain their physical and mental capacities, and underlining the need to make special efforts to meet nutritional needs, especially of women, children, older persons, indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities, as well as of those living in vulnerable situations,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
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Consequences of child, early and forced marriage (2019), para. 34
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- 6. Also calls upon States to develop and implement measures at all levels to end child, early and forced marriage, including national and subnational action plans where appropriate, and to make adequate resources available across relevant sectors, including health, nutrition, protection, governance and education;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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The girl child (2010), para. 64
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- 36. Calls upon all States to integrate food and nutritional support with the goal that children, especially girl children, have access at all times to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences, for an active and healthy life, as part of a comprehensive response to HIV and AIDS and other communicable diseases;
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
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Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) (2018), para. 09
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- Recognizing with concern that women are more likely to be food insecure than men in every region of the world, that almost one third of women of reproductive age worldwide suffer from anaemia, a persistent problem that also puts the nutriti on and health of many children at risk, that, despite considerable reduction in the global prevalence of stunting between 2005 and 2017, 150.8 million children under 5 years of age still suffer from stunted growth, and that wasting, undernutrition, overwei ght and obesity are recurrent problems for children in several countries,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Men
- Women
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The right to food (2019), para. 18
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- Recognizing also the need to urgently assist some African countries that are facing drought, starvation and famine threats that could affect millions of people, most of whom are women and children, who risk losing their lives,
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- Food & Nutrition
- Humanitarian
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Women
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 73
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- 22. Encourages and recognizes the efforts at all levels to establish and strengthen social protection measures and programmes, including national safety nets and protection programmes for the needy and vulnerable, such as food and cash-for- work, cash transfer and voucher programmes, school feeding programmes and mother-and-child nutrition programmes, and in this regard underlines the importance of increasing investment, capacity-building and systems development;
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- Food & Nutrition
- Person(s) affected
- Children
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