Fighting Malnutrition
<i>UN nominates Hasina as global leader </i>
The United Nations nominated Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with 26 global leaders in a Lead Group for the global Scaling Up Nutrition (Sun) movement to fight against child and maternal malnutrition. The UN gave the nomination for Sheikh Hasina's recognition of continued commitment to advancing child and maternal health by improving the status of maternal and child nutrition both at the national and international levels, said a release of the foreign ministry. The SUN movement brings together over 100 organisations and governments committed to work together to fight hunger and under-nutrition of over 1 billion under-nourished people in the world. Members of the Lead Group include Armando Emílio Guebuza, president of Mozambique, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, president of Tanzania; Nahas Angula, prime minister of Namibia, and Babu Ram Bhattarai, prime minister of Nepal. Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder and chair of BRAC, is also a member of this Lead Group. Sheikh Hasina along with other global leaders would work with the UN secretary general to improve the nutritional status of the world's marginalised and most vulnerable children. With its strategic guidance and experience, the release said the SUN movement is expected to gain momentum, and mobilise support to fight hunger and malnutrition.
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