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THE WORLD HEALTH Organisation has been criticised for suggesting that women of childbearing age should be advised against drinking.
The WHO’s draft Global Alcohol Action Plan 2022-2030 calls on countries to pay “appropriate attention to prevention” of alcohol consumption in particular groups, including children, teenagers and women of childbearing age.
The draft report says: “Appropriate attention should be given to prevention of the initiation of drinking among children and adolescents, prevention of drinking among pregnant women and women of childbearing age, and protection of people from pressures to drink, especially in societies with high levels of alcohol consumption where heavy drinkers are encouraged to drink even more.”
The WHO suggested an international day or week of awareness on the harmful use of alcohol, or a “World no alcohol day/week”.
“Alcohol use is deeply embedded in the social landscape of many societies, and some 2300 million people drink alcohol beverages in most parts of the world,” the report says.
Reacting to the report, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service’s chief executive Clare Murphy said it is “extremely disturbing” to see the WHO “risk hard-won women’s rights by attempting to control their bodies and choices in this way”.
“A global organisation such as WHO should recognise the power that such dangerous messaging about women’s behaviour carries, and should be more alert to the impact of these statements,” Murphy said.
“We urge them to review this document as a matter of urgency.”
Matt Lambert, chief executive of the Portman Group, the social responsibility body and regulator for alcohol in the UK, said the WHO has gone “well beyond their remit”.
“We are extremely concerned by the WHO calling on countries to prevent drinking among women of childbearing age in their latest action plan,” Lambert said.
The HSE advises that the recommended weekly low-risk guidelines are less than 11 standard drinks for women and 17 standard drinks for men.
People are advised to have two to three alcohol-free days per week and to drink no more than six standard drinks on any one occasion.
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He deffo needs to set himself aside from the torys on this or he will be sent to the waste bin also
@JG: he’s appealing to the uk public. They don’t like strikes or union leaders and politicians on picket lines waving copies of socialist worker about. Its why Corbyn lost in a landslide.
@Tom Quin: Every poll on the rail workers strikes had the public in support of them.
I take it back a YouGov poll didn’t. Savanta Comes poll of 2,300 58% of the people questioned said the strikes are justified, with 34% deeming them unjustified.
@FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: No it doesn’t.
@FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: The only ones showing support I can find are the ones carried by or for the RMT. No suprises there.
@Tom Quin: The Savanta ComRes poll wasn’t Carrie out for the RMT. Its funny how we only see what we want to see isn’t it Tom?
@FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: It must be the only one then, an outlier. An online one rigged by activists probably.
@Tom Quin: The IPSOS one was equal support at 35% to opposition at 35%. Doesn’t show the British public detesting unions. The only reason the Tories do so well is because the Brits use FPTP elections. It’s well established UK Labour would come out on top with PR voting. So no the British people don’t hate the left.
@FiannaFáilness FineGaelness:
Keeping in mind that, despite the name, YouGov is a private polling company founded by a conservative party member who is now a conservative party MP.
@David Bourke: Absolutely, good point that!
They sabotaged their party from within with their revolt on Corbyn. It’s no wonder they’re a bit lost for direction these days when they promoted a fence sitter to party leader.
@Rochelle: With FPTP electoral system and a very hostile media, Corbyn was never going to get in.
@Rochelle: Corbyn handed the Conservatives their biggest majority in donkeys years. He let Boris off the hook when he was suffocating to death through the pressure of brexit and a minority government. Corbyn showed the worst judgement of any leader in modern history when he agreed to that election. He then bombed out un the election campaign. He will be remembered as one of the worst Labour leaders in history. His decisions, scandals and his unprecedented unnecessary election defeat will ensure that.
@Rochelle: Corbyn lost to a Tory landslide, the uk public do not want left wingers. Starmer is trying to win an election in the real world.
@Tim Dawson: Corbyn was utterly railroaded by the media.. Even the BBC photoshopped a Russian style hat onto him on their backgrounds. He was absolutely hounded out of his position. The recent report shows how much the New Labour (Blairite) side of the party and the NEC completely shoehorned him. 100′s of thousands of people joined the Labour Party because Corbyn was the leader and the NEC screwed that membership over.
@Tom Quin: The UK public are too easily led by their right wing media barons.
@FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: the british public have only ever once voted for a socialist government that was after ww2. The media did not give Boris that huge landslide.
@FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: that’s very, very weak. you thinking the uk public are so thick because they did not vote for the guy you wanted them too is the sort of arrogance that switches people off the left.
@Tim Dawson: To be fair he didn’t get the support of the higher up’s in the labour party,the papers were all against him,his own wanted him to fail,he was elected by the people on the ground in the labour party,not saying he was perfect but he never had a chance,look at the head of labour now.
@Tom Quin: They voted for to leave the EU,yes they have a huge amount of badly informed people that believe lies and think the empire is still alive.
@Daniel Roche: No they just voted the way you didn’t like. It’s not a crime to leave the EU.
@Tom Quin: Who said it was a crime? Clearly you’re just a troll.
@Tim Dawson:
I’d love to hear about the Corbyn scandals. Please provide the details
@FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: So people who disagree with you are not just thick and gullible but also trolls?
Forgetting that working conditions would still be in the dark ages if it wasn’t for Unions. This isn’t simply a matter of one mp not abiding by party protocols, starmer has been on the fence all along. His fear of the electorate and the right wing press could be considered cautious and prudent but not at the cost of handing everything to the Tories on a plate. Surely it is easy enough for him to highlight that transport issues are created initially by the govt and not by the unions?
@alan: the brit public do not support unions and lefties like Corbyn. Starmer needs to win them over to get the Tories out and going full on Corbyn will give tories another landslide.
Starmer must’ve thought, the Tories are ripping themselves apart with this leadership contest, we can do better than them!
Labour party for the working class there’s a joke
If I understand it correctly, he wasn’t sacked for supporting the strikers, but rather because he said it was Labour policy to advocate for a pay rise in line with inflation. Which would a) would make no economic sense – increasing wages in line with inflation will only lead to further inflation, and b) clearly would be a major policy proposal, and as such if someone just says it is the party position when it isn’t, that person should be sacked. Such a proposal is ludicrous, and would just give the Torries the chance to portray Labour as some kind of looney left part that would end up bankrupting Britain, hurting small business owners, etc. etc. Right now, Labour just need to sit back and quiet while the Torries destroy themselves.
Always the same with Labour, when the Tories are on the ropes they proceed to shoot themselves in both feet. Fairly much unelectable as they’re perceived as differing factions all adopting opposing views. Should just split into three different parties and be done with it.
Starmer did the correct thing to sack him. What are all these whingers going on about?
Shouldn’t Labour ya know, be on the side of workers. I’m guessing that day has long since past since Tony Blair and ‘new Labour’. Moderate Tories in disguise
Unable to govern themselves anymore over there…Maybe we should tie in with India and jointly go in to save(colonise) them and restore good governance … ;)
Bye bye Keir
Like our own labour party. Labour supposed to be pro worker.
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