The Healthy Eating Promotion Law is currently at risk due to the MERCOSUR front-of-pack labeling harmonization process, which threatens to weaken the protection standards achieved in Argentina. This document provides concrete legal tools and arguments for those defending the human rights to health and adequate food. The analysis reviews the constitutional and international principles that require the Argentine State to uphold the current level of protection and examines the compatibility of the octagonal warning label system with international trade law. A technical resource to challenge, on every level, any regulatory rollback
Despite the constitutional recognition of the right to adequate food in 1994, food insecurity and the logic of emergency-based responses have shaped Argentina’s food policy over the last decades. This report analyzes that process from a human rights perspective, reviewing the main regulations and policies between 2002 and 2025. It examines the tensions between the prevailing assistance-based model and the State’s obligations under international human rights law, and presents the Healthy Eating Promotion Law (Law No. 27,642) as the most significant paradigm shift in this field in the last two decades. In a context marked by regulatory setbacks and worsening food insecurity, the document identifies current challenges for the effective implementation of the right to food and outlines possible paths for its protection and enforceability.
In a context of regulatory setbacks that threaten public health policies, this legal compendium provides concrete tools to defend the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating. The publication brings together contributions from various authors who, from complementary legal perspectives, offer clear and actionable arguments to uphold its full validity, demand its effective implementation, and challenge setbacks in the political, institutional, and judicial spheres. A collective effort to strengthen the human right to adequate food in Argentina.
Fundeps, in partnership with UNICEF Argentina, developed this technical document that brings together regulatory tools and practical recommendations to help local governments promote sustainable public policies that improve the habits and nutrition of children and adolescents. It is a resource designed to support municipalities in creating healthier environments with access to safe water, adequate food options, recreational spaces, physical activity, and breastfeeding support, among other key measures.
This report seeks to reflect on the scope and limitations of breastfeeding protection policies in Argentina, with an emphasis on regulatory acceptance and the effectiveness of their implementation. It begins by analyzing the international human rights regulatory framework that promotes and guarantees the protection of breastfeeding and the importance of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (ICMSM) and subsequent World Health Assembly (WHA) resolutions as a tool to guarantee adequate and effective protection of the rights to food, health, and information of children, women, and pregnant people. It then analyzes, from a human rights perspective, the findings of the monitoring carried out by the ObservaMaS platform, which reflects the worrying noncompliance with national and international regulations and the advancement of the marketing strategies of the breast-milk substitutes industry.
This report aims to contextualize the problem of smoking and analyze its multiple impacts on health, the environment, the economy and society, from a comprehensive, relational and intersectional perspective. Based on an exhaustive review of the literature and scientific evidence from sources without conflicts of interest, this work focuses on the specific effects of tobacco consumption and the activities of the tobacco industry in Argentina and the region.
The multidimensional crisis and growing food insecurity that the country is experiencing has led several provinces to issue local Food Emergency regulations. In this report we explore the scope and limits of this regulatory strategy in the search to alleviate the difficulties faced by millions of Argentines, as well as its connection with the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating.
From Fundeps we conducted a study interviewing youth, adolescents and children from different socioeconomic levels, to comprehensively understand the consumption of tobacco products and generate evidence regarding the profile of consumers and the context surrounding their consumption.
In this report you can find reasons, beliefs, experiences, expectations, emotions and motivations, related to tobacco consumption; and considerations about the people who consume it, taking into account factors such as gender, age, socioeconomic level and school and extracurricular activities.
Food and beverage industry interference is defined as influencing legal frameworks and policy environments in order to delay, weaken or prevent the development of healthy eating policies. These companies and groups related to their interests carry out different actions to intervene in the development of public policies and to influence the academic world and science.
This report seeks to document the case of interference by the food industry in Argentina, within the framework of the debate and sanction of the Law for the Promotion of Healthy Eating (No. 27,642), better known as the Labeling Law, as well as the initiatives developed by civil society to counteract this interference.
This report, carried out with the financial support of the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), compiles the views of five civil society organizations that actively and jointly participated in the promotion of the law, and currently continue working towards its correct implementation: the Inter-American Heart Foundation Argentina (FIC Argentina), Consciente Colectivo, the Foundation for the Development of Sustainable Policies (FUNDEPS), the Foundation
SANAR and the Argentine Federation of Nutrition Graduates (FAGRAN). These organizations, free of conflict of interest, began working together in 2021 and provided scientific evidence to justify the choice of labeling. In addition, they carried out advocacy actions with different political decision-makers during all the years in which the policy was debated, and carried out communication campaigns to inform and support the approval of the law.
This report summarizes the main contents and challenges addressed in the first congress dedicated to the implementation of the Healthy Eating Promotion Law. Through thematic tables and debates, strategies were explored to improve the application of these regulations throughout the country. Includes testimonies and practical tools to strengthen the right to healthy eating in Argentina.
LET’S NOT STAY OUT.
Argentina is the only Mercosur country that has not ratified the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, despite having one of the highest addiction prevalence rates in the region. This infographic explains what tools this treaty would provide us in the fight against smoking and why its ratification is urgent.
THE CIGARETTE LEAVES US WITHOUT VOICE OR VOTE.
Argentina does not participate in global decision-making spaces on tobacco control, despite having one of the highest addiction prevalence rates. This infographic brings together data that supports the importance of advancing the ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of the World Health Organization (WHO).