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For the first time, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights takes up tobacco use as a human rights issue during a hearing on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 in Washington DC.

We are pleased to announce that today we have launched a joint policy brief with the Global Climate and Health Alliance on climate change and NCDs.

More than 300 organisations including NGOs, academic institutions, foundations and patients groups have reacted with alarm at a last minute proposed change to the indicator used to measure financial protection for health under the new Sustainable Development Goals.

In September 2015 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda. Find here an update on several ongoing processes at the UN in New York.

The 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women concluded today. Draft agreed conclusions can be found here.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will held on 5 April, in Washington DC, a thematic hearing to discuss the issue of the tobacco epidemic in the Americas as a human rights problem.

The government of the UK now joins countries such as Mexico, France, Norway and South Africa in the taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages.