Announcements

New NCDFREE Film: Tackling Trauma

Announcements | 20th December 2016

NCDFREE has released its latest film 'Tackling Trauma'. The film follows the story of Frank, an asylum seeker in Denmark, who recieves both health and social support from a local volunteer run project called Trampoline House.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Announcements | 02nd December 2016

3rd December marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). WHO is joining with other United Nations agencies and civil society organisations to celebrate "a day for all".
UHC Day 2016 campaign call to act with ambition

Announcements | 01st December 2016

On 12 December 2016 a global coalition of more than 750 organisations in 110 countries will call for greater action and progress on delivering Universal Health Coverage.
AVMSD: Protecting children from exposure to unhealthy marketing

Announcements | 01st December 2016

The revision of the European Directive about audiovisual services provides an opportunity to minimise the adverse impact of unhealthy commercial marketing, especially on young people.
New WHO NCD MAP to guide policy-makers in the creation & implementation of multisectoral NCD plans

Announcements | 30th November 2016

The WHO has released a new web-based tool to guide policy-makers and practitioners through the process of developing, implementing, and monitoring national multisectoral NCD plans.
Report cards on physical activity for children and youth confirm global inactivity crisis

Announcements | 23rd November 2016

Comparisons across 38 countries from 6 continents confirm global childhood inactivity crisis and offer insights for improvement.
Global leaders agree to promote health to achieve SDGs

Announcements | 21st November 2016

Leaders from governments and United Nations organisations, city chiefs and health experts from around the world today made two landmark commitments to promote public health and eradicate poverty.
UN consultation on the right to food and the use of pesticides

Announcements | 16th November 2016

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food will focus her next annual report to the Human Rights Council on the human rights implications of the widespread use of hazardous pesticides on human rights, in particular the right to food.