Collective Action to Restore Alcohol Policy Ambition to the UN NCDs and Mental Health Declaration
Movendi International has launched a global initiative for collective action because shaping a healthier, fairer future requires all of us to raise our voices together.
Right now, world leaders are finalising the UN Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health. This is a historic opportunity to put people’s health, rights, and well-being at the centre of global health and development.
But Movendi International analysis shows that alcohol policy is being quietly erased – despite alcohol being the leading risk factor for death and disease among young people worldwide.
Instead of following latest WHO guidance and previous Member State commitments, the current draft is inadequate and misleading in how it addresses alcohol harm and policy. And it is vulnerable to alcohol industry interference.
But we still have an opportunity to make our voices heard.
That’s why Movendi is inviting our members, partners, allies, and any concerned citizen and people with lived experience to act – collectively, urgently, and constructively.
Through our action platform, you can contact your country’s Permanent Mission to the UN in just a few clicks. In this way, you are able to urge them to adopt six concrete, constructive changes that would restore scientific integrity, meaning, and impact for alcohol policy in the declaration.
This is our moment to make alcohol policy a real global priority and the political declaration a turning point for global alcohol policy.
Together, we can ensure that the declaration champions people’s health instead of alcohol industry interests.