Publications

ALCOHOL OBSTACLE TO DEVELOPMENT

How Alcohol Affects the Sustainable Development Goals

Alcohol is an obstacle to achieving 14 out of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 54 of 169 targets. It is a major obstacle to sustainable human development.

The brand new book(let) illustrates for the first time that alcohol affects 14 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) negatively and presents extensive scientific prove that all dimensions of the 2030 Agenda are impacted by alcohol as obstacle to development.

Basic facts: Alcohol obstacle to development

• Alcohol is jeopardizing human capital, undermining economic productivity, destroying the social fabric and burdening health systems;
• Alcohol kills 3 million people worldwide every year;
• That means: Every 10 seconds a human being dies because of alcohol;
• Worldwide, alcohol is responsible for 7.2% of all premature mortality.
• Alcohol harms young people disproportionately. Among people between the ages of 15 and 49, alcohol is in fact the number one risk factor for death and disability, accounting for 10% of all deaths in this age group.

This book(let) outlines for each of the 14 SDGs and 54 targets, what the evidence is and how alcohol adversely affects them.

Alcohol Policy Solutions To Reach SDG 11

 Addressing alcohol as an obstacle to safe, inclusive, and sustainable cities

• Pervasive alcohol harm in public spaces poses a serious obstacles to making cities safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable.

Pervasive alcohol harm, including an intoxicating alcohol norm, alcohol violence, and omnipresent alcohol marketing are grave threats to creating healthy public spaces that help make cities safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable.

• Omnipresent alcohol: unsafe public space, neighborhood violence

In and near neighborhoods with a high density of alcohol outlets, there is a higher rate of violence. It means, when bars, liquor stores, and other businesses that sell alcohol are close together, more assaults and other violent crimes occur.

• Alcohol harm in public spaces is a Human Rights issue

Healthy public spaces are a Women’s Rights issue. Alcohol violence is a massive obstacle to women’s safety and freedom in cities and human settlements. Inclusive public spaces are a child and youth rights issue. Alcohol violence and alcohol-related exclusion is a massive risk factor for health problems among children, adolescents and youth.

This booklet outlines how alcohol harm adversely affects public spaces and the quality of life in cities and human settlements. The booklet also outlines effective policy solutions.

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Alcohol Taxation – A win-win measure for financing development

Movendi International and EAAPA have collaborated to compile a landmark report detailing the science behind the effects of alcohol taxation, and outlining the mechanisms of taxation and its consequences for fiscal space, health promotion and sustainable development.

In a novel approach, the report highlights how alcohol taxation, if employed in an evidence-based manner, reaps positive effects for a number of Sustainable Development Goals. The report finds that 10 out of the 17 new Sustainable Development Goals – such as eradication of poverty and hunger, gender equality, good health and well being, quality education, or economic growth – are positively impacted by alcohol taxation measures.

The report concludes: Alcohol taxation is a win-win measure for increasing fiscal space, boosting health promotion and financing sustainable development.

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ALCOHOL USE: FUELING THE NCDs TSUNAMI

Alcohol-related cancers, CVDs, digestive diseases, diabetes, mental ill-health and solutions for change

Alcohol is a major risk factor for NCDs, including mental ill-health.

There is a strong link between alcohol and NCDs, particularly cancer, cardiovascular disease, digestive diseases and diabetes, as well as mental ill-health.

1.7 Million

Alcohol consumption caused an estimated 1.7 million NCD deaths in 2016.

This equals: 4.3% of all NCD deaths and 65.5 million NCD DALYs.

This booklet provides state-of-the-art facts of alcohol and the major NCDs: cancer, cardiovascular disease, digestive diseases and diabetes, as well as mental ill-health, as well as a short overview of solutions to the alcohol-fueled NCDs burden.

ALCOHOL AND OLDER PEOPLE

Health risks, public health crisis and solutions

The average age of the world population is rising. It is expected that the percent- age of the world’s population over 60 years of age will double by 2050. As a natu- ral consequence of aging, the human body becomes more vulnerable to disease.

• With increased longevity, certain diseases have increased considerably. For example, new cases of cancers in the 65 to 85 year group more than doubled between 1970 and 2016.
• In addition to chronic health conditions, the incidence of acute harm among older age groups has increased.

As an increasing number of older people require more health services, the alcohol use and harm among older people also calls for special attention.

This booklet provides state-of-the-art facts of alcohol’s risk for older people, outlining the health risks, the public health crisis as well as the solutions.

Alcohol Policy for the New Urban Agenda

Promoting safe, inclusive, enabling and diverse public spaces to help build healthy cities for sustainable development

The New Urban Agenda is a unique opportunity to forge a coordinated approach to promoting healthy lifestyles and urban environments that enable well-being because the cities are increasingly impacting the whole of humanity, including the sustainable development agenda.

Alcohol harm, is a major obstacle to creating and sustaining healthy, safe, inclusive, and diverse public spaces – this way undermining the building of sustainable urban livelihoods and sustainable development.

Evidence shows that alcohol is a tremendous obstacle to women’s safety and freedom in public space. Evidence also shows that alcohol-related exclusion from public space is a tremendous obstacle to adolescent’s health and well-being.

This booklet outlines the evidence and puts forward concrete, evidence-based, high-impact and cost-effective solutions.

Enabling public space is about the absence of violence and the presence of opportunity to engage in creative ways with different people and ideas. The New Urban Agenda needs to address this in order to foster participatory urban societies.

Alcohol policy measures should be part of the New Urban Agenda. They help facilitate:

1. Access to public space for a larger amount of vulnerable groups,
2. Quantity of public spaces in a given community, and
3. Quality of public spaces – also known as healthy public spaces.

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CHILDREN OF PARENTS WITH ALCOHOL PROBLEMS

Towards an alcohol-free childhood

Alcohol harms children and young people dis- proportionately. Children suffer from neglect, maltreatment, poor mental and physical health, academic difficulties and violence perpetrated by adults, often parents, due to alcohol.

Evidence shows that younger age increased the risk to experience alcohol harm due someone else’s alcohol consumption.

This booklet provides state-of-the-art facts and explanations of the situation children of parents with alcohol problems in particular and alcohol harm affecting children in general.

This booklet contains 7 key messages.

 

Children of Alcoholics

Hidden Human Rights Crisis

This booklet analyses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from the vantage point of the harms that children of alcoholics are exposed to due to their parents’ alcohol problems.

The analysis shows that for children of alcoholics, eight fundamental rights enshrined in the UDHR are being violated, as a consequences of their parents’ alcohol problems.

 

 

 

 

All Right(s)!

Youth rights in alcohol culture

A booklet putting alcohol related harm into the context of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Alcohol culture in gender zoom

This booklet provides an overview about the relation between gender and alcohol culture.

Does the current culture shape the gender roles in the society? Or do our gender roles create the alcohol culture.

This booklet provides food for thought combining theory, evidence and discussion questions.

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Cheers to the family

Intimate partner violence and alcohol

Download this booklet for free in low resolution, produced by Movendi International in collaboration with Forut in Norway and the International Institute of the IOGT-NTO movement in Sweden.

The purpose of the booklet is to provide an introduction to the topic of intimate partner violence fueled by alcohol – which is often overlooked when discussing poverty eradication issues and when devising development strategies.

Alcohol is a major risk factor for domestic violence and in the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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HIV and Alcohol

Download this booklet for free, produced by Movendi International in collaboration with the International Institute of the IOGT-NTO movement in Sweden.

The purpose of this booklet is to inform the conversation about evidence-based measures to tackle the HIV/ AIDS epidemic with latest facts about alcohol’s role as major risk factor.

This book is a major contribution to help facilitate capacity-building activities around the adoption of effective policies and strategies, addressing alcohol within responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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The unhealthy side effects of CETA

Alcohol and CETA

The free trade deal between Canada and the European Union – the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) – could have considerable side effects for people, families, communities and public policy making in the public interest.

This booklet exposes the toll CETA would take on public health, including through promoting alcohol availability and affordability.

CETA does not acknowledge the link between alcohol consumption and major societal impacts.

CETA is inconsistent with public health if it is used to promote increased availability and affordability of alcohol. The European spirits lobby has been one of the most outspoken supporters of CETA.

CETA does not acknowledge the link between alcohol consumption and major societal impacts including non-communicable diseases and other forms of alcohol related harm, such as addiction, violence, crime and road deaths.

This has the potential to harm health in both Europe and Canada.

CETA will increase availability and affordability of alcohol

Alcohol is a major threat to health and well-being for all and a serious obstacle to social and economic development. In total, the societal costs of alcohol in the EU for 2010 were an estimated €155.8 billion.

• Alcohol is the leading risk for ill-health and premature death for the core of the working age population (25-59 years);
• 1 in 4 road fatalities in the EU are due to alcohol;
• in 2010 nearly 31,000 Europeans were killed on the roads – 25% of these fatalities were related to alcohol.

A recent OECD report shows that alcohol negatively affects countries’ socio-economic performance as productivity losses associated with alcohol harm are in the region of 5% of GDP in most countries.