Kellogg’s loses court case over sugary cereal
The BBC reports that in-store promotions on food and drink high in fat, salt or sugar will be restricted under ...
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Children need the tools “to do right by people and the planet”
One third of children in England aged 10 to 11 is overweight or obese, according to NHS figures, in a ...
Are chocolate giants on the verge of solving child slavery?
Campaigners have dismissed new reports by chocolate companies that child labour is being addressed in their supply chains. Despite a ...
Child labour plagues our food system says World Benchmarking Alliance
A “shocking lack of action” over child and forced labour has been exposed across agrifood, in a study that found ...
America is reducing poverty among children
The Economist reports that recent modelling by scholars at Columbia University estimates that in July child poverty was 41% lower ...
Rapporteur: Business due diligence needed to protect human rights
Businesses should “prevent, address and effectively remedy human rights abuses across their entire supply chains, making the information public through ...
7,000 children under five will die from hunger every day
The impact of Covid will kill an extra 258 children a day from malnutrition, according to a report in Nature ...
UK TV ban for large unhealthy food brands
Only SME producers of unhealthy food will be allowed to advertise before 9pm on TV in the UK from the ...
WFP: school meals were best safety net in history, pre-Covid
More than 370 million children have missed their only nutritious meal of the day since schools closed in the face ...
Former child slaves take US class action against chocolate giants
The world’s largest chocolate makers have been named in a US lawsuit by eight former child slaves, trafficked from Mali ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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