34. (e) Address malnutrition by finalizing and implementing the food and nutrition policy, ensuring a dedicated budget line in the national budget for nutrition, intensifying awareness-raising campaigns, particularly in rural areas, promoting exclusive breastfeeding and knowledge of the national code on the marketing of breast milk substitutes and establishing hospitals certified as baby-friendly.
35. (d) Address the incidence of drug abuse by Children and/or adolescents, in particular Tramadol, by, inter alia, providing Children and/or adolescents with accurate and objective information and education on life skills for the prevention of substance abuse, including tobacco and alcohol, and develop accessible and youth-friendly drug dependency treatment and harm reduction services
Year | 2017 |
Topic | Food policy Tobacco control Other Health-related issues |
Document Type | Country Recommendations |
Country | Cameroon |
Policy Area | Fiscal measures Food marketing regulations Education and information Breastfeeding |
Human Rights Comiteee | CRC |
Human Rights | Right to health Right to adequate food and nutrition Right to education Right to information |
Groups Affected | Children and adolescents |
Committee on the Rights of the Child, Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Cameroon, CRC/C/CMR/CO/3-5 (2017). Par. 34 (e) and 35 (d). Available at: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CRC%2FC%2FCMR%2FCO%2F3-5&Lang=en