Individual statement to the WHO’s 156th Executive Board meeting on agenda item 14: Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health.
Delivered February 2025.
Individual statement to the WHO’s 156th Executive Board meeting on agenda item 24.3: Global Strategies or action plans that are scheduled to expire within one year. Supported by World Obesity Federation.
Delivered February 2025.
This factsheet outlines how our Recommendation for mothers to breastfeed their babies can be rolled out at a population level. It expands advice in our Policy blueprint for cancer prevention, which combines evidence on cancer risk – our Cancer Prevention Recommendations – with policy advice for population-level prevention.
Published January 2025.
Joint statement by World Cancer Research Fund International and UICC to the World Health Assembly 71 on agenda item 12.6: comprehensive implementation plan on maternal, infant and young child nutrition: biennial report.
Delivered May 2018.
Joint statement by World Cancer Research Fund International, World Obesity Federation, 1000 Days, Global Health Advocactes, UICC, WaterAid, Scaling Up Nutrition, Civil Society Alliance – Pakistan (SUNCSA, Pak), Helen Keller International and NCD International to the WHO Executive Board 142 on agenda item 4.6: Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition: Biennial Report.
Delivered January 2018.
A briefing for Member State missions in Geneva outlining our policy asks for the World Health Assembly 77 on:
- Universal health coverage
- Prevention and control of NCDs
- Social determinants of health
- Maternal, infant and young child nutrition
- Wellbeing and health promotion
- Draft 14th general programme of work, 2025-28
Published May 2023.
Our general submission to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) interim market study report on infant and follow-on formula, in which we advocate that infant formula should be treated differently from other consumer goods due to its essential role in infant nutrition, its importance for cancer prevention for both mothers and babies, and the potential long-term consequences of inappropriate use.
Submitted December 2024.
World Cancer Research Fund’s comments on the 10-year Health Plan for England and how the government can strengthen efforts to reduce preventable cases of cancer.
Submitted December 2024.
Joint statement by World Cancer Research Fund International, World Obesity, NCD Alliance and 1000 days to the 146th Session of the World Health Organization’s Executive Board Provisional agenda item 18.
Delivered February 2020.
World Cancer Research Fund International’s response to the WHO’s consultation on the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025: priority actions on nutrition for the next five years.
Submitted 2021.
Joint statement by World Obesity Federation, World Cancer Research Fund International and NCD Alliance at World Health Assembly 77 on agenda item 15.2 on Maternal, infant and young child nutrition.
Delivered May 2024.
Joint statement by World Cancer Research Fund International, World Obesity Federation and NCD Alliance to the WHO Executive Board 154 on agenda item 20 Maternal, infant and young child nutrition.
Delivered January 2024.