DSPD Ageing is the focal point within the United Nations system on matters related to ageing. As the focal point, its primary action is to facilitate and promote the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, including designing guidelines for policy development and implementation; advocating means to mainstream ageing issues into development agendas; engaging in dialogue with civil society and the private sector; and information exchange.

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Call for NGO Input to the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing. Deadline: 15 May 2013. For further information please click here

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly 67/143. Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly 67/139. Towards a Comprehensive and Integral International Legal Instrument to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Older Persons

The open-ended working group on ageing for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons was established by the General Assembly by resolution 65/182 on 21 December 2010.

The working group will consider the existing international framework of the human rights of older persons and identify possible gaps and how best to address them.

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“The Commission for Social Development will be responsible for follow-up and appraisal of the implementation of the International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002. The Commission should integrate the different dimensions of population ageing as contained in the International Plan of Action in its work.''

Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, paragraph  132

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