Worldwide Charter for Action on Eating Disorders
The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) has created a bill of rights for people suffering from eating disorders. It draws upon the responses from 1,730 people with or recovered from an eating disorder, family members, professionals and other stakeholders from 46 countries.
The web-based survey helped to define the rights and expectations that people affected by eating disorders seek from the professional world of treatment. The purpose of the charter is to form a united coalition that will persuade policy makers to, not only take notice of the millions of people suffering from this disease, but to also affect change by committing to the actions set out.
The charter came about after the first initiative of the World Summit on Eating Disorders, which AED plans to sponsor annually. This summit is presented each year to discuss concerns from people affected by disordered eating and people are encouraged to actively participate in the activities organized.
You can read the charter at: http://www.aedweb.org/public/WorldCharter.cfm
