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Side Event at the 72nd UN General Assembly

PAHO Virtual Course
On the occasion of the Seventy-Second Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly

The Permanent Mission of Barbados to the UN, The Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN, The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)1, The Pacific Island States (PSIDS)2, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC)

invite


Heads of Delegations, Permanent Representatives and Experts

to attend

 

Childhood Obesity - A Development Time-bomb: Learning from SIDS to accelerate multi-sectoral action in support of the 2025 NCDs targets and the SDGs


Friday 22 September, 2017, 1.15 to 2.30 p.m.
Trusteeship Council Chamber

 
The Caribbean and Pacific small island developing States (SIDS) are sub-regions of the world with particularly high burdens of obesity and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which threaten the achievement of sustainable development in these already vulnerable countries. Obesity is a disease in its own right, but it is also a major risk factor for many of the NCDs, and there is growing concern, specifically, about the alarming rate at which childhood obesity is increasing. Caribbean and Pacific SIDS have been focusing on this issue at the highest level. This Side Event will provide an opportunity to share the experiences of these regions, and others, in providing an enabling and less obesogenic environment for their people, especially the children.

Speakers will include:
  • Senator The Honourable Maxine McClean, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Barbados.
  • Senator The Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica.
  • The Honourable Elvin Nimrod, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grenada.
  • The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada.
  • Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director General, WHO.
  • Dr Colin Tukuitonga, Director General, Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
  • Sir George Alleyne, Director Emeritus, PAHO/WHO.
  • Sir Trevor Hassell, President, Healthy Caribbean Coalition.
Please RSVP to Lynda Waithe, Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations at prun@foreign.gov.bb or 212 551 4305.
1 Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
2 Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu.
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The HCC is a regional network of Caribbean health NGOs and civil society organizations with the remit to combat chronic diseases (NCDs) and their associated risk factors and conditions. Our membership presently consists of more than 65 Caribbean-based health NGOs and over 55 not-for-profit organisations and, in excess of 200 individual members based in the Caribbean and across the globe.

To join the HCC email us at hcc@healthycaribbean.org
The work of HCC would not be possible without core funding from Sagicor Life Inc
Sagicor Life Inc.
The HCC promote the work of civil society throughout the Caribbean in a variety of ways including sharing of their materials, this is not an endorsement of their materials or messages. The information contained in this newsletter is for general information purposes only, we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct but any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. Through this newsletter you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of the HCC. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.
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