Discover how sustainable development, children’s rights and tobacco control are linked

Abstract

When the members of the United Nations adopted the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development, they promised, among other things, to fight poverty and hunger worldwide, protect the climate and improve the health of all. They set up 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), among them SDG 3: ‘Health for All at All Ages’. The most important instrument to achieve this is SDG 3.a: ‘Strengthen the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)’. The FCTC is an international health treaty with 180 Parties, is based on human rights and explicitly refers to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC). Unfairtobacco emphasizes the links between SDGs, children’s rights and tobacco control in a new brochure and offers recommendations aiming for a tobacco-free world.