Draft global alcohol action plan 2022-2030 urges countries to pay ‘appropriate attention to prevention’ of consumption in certain groups. The WHO plan 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' - The Telegraph
www.who.int/publications/m/item/global-action-plan-on-alcohol-1st-draft
It is shocking to me that in this report they mention the indirect negative effect of drinking in women of childbearing age multiple times (ie foetal alcohol syndrome) yet not once do they mention the link between alcohol and male violence. The report does reference violence and interpersonal violence as an indirect harm arising from alcohol consumption. It also acknowledges that the majority of problem drinkers are male. However it's unable to connect these two together and acknowledge that male violence related to alcohol consumption is undoubtedly a huge problem.
The report goes on to give the disturbing recommendation that member states should seek to prevent the initiation of drinking amongst women of childbearing age. As far as I can see there is no recommendation that member states should seek to even reduce the alcohol consumption of men, let alone prevent it all together, this despite the report acknowledging that overwhelmingly those directly negatively impacted by alcohol and those classed as problem drinkers are men!
I guess this is yet another example of men being the default.