19. The obligation to protect sometimes necessitates direct regulation and intervention. States parties should consider measures such as restricting marketing and advertising of certain goods and services in order to protect public health, such as of tobacco products, in line with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and of breast-milk substitutes, in accordance with the 1981 International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and subsequent resolutions of the World Health Assembly; (...)
| Year | 2017 |
| Topic | Food policy Tobacco control |
| Document Type | General Recommendations |
| Country | N/A |
| Policy Area | Food marketing regulations Breastfeeding Tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) |
| Human Rights Comiteee | CESCR |
| Human Rights | Right to health |
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General comment No. 24 - on State obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the context of business activities, E/C.12/GC/24, (2017), Par. 19. Available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=E%2fC.12%2fGC%2f24&Lang=en
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