A High-level Panel Discussion on the Report of the Secretary-General on the Second Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing will be held at the United Nations Headquarters, North Lawn Building, Conference Room 4, on Thursday 7 February 2013 at ...

The World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) happens each year on June 15th. It was officially recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2011, following a request by the International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (INPEA), who first established the commemoration in June 2006. It represents the ...

OHCHR and UNDESA will convey a three-day Expert Meeting on the human rights of older persons in New York, 29 to 31 May 2012, to precede the third working session of the open-ended working group. Open to Member States and other stakeholders as observers, the meeting aims at informing the ...

The report focuses on the social and economic wellbeing of older persons and documents the demographics of older age; their economic status and participation in the labour force; the health of older persons; and the societal perceptions and social integration of older persons. On each of these topics, the report attempts to account ...

2012 will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Second World Assembly on Ageing and its important outcome document, the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA). In anticipation, this year's International Day of Older Persons is devoted to presenting ways in which MIPAA has affected changes in attitudes, policies ...

With the number of people aged over 60 expected to reach 2 billion by 2050, or more than a fifth of the total global population, discrimination against old persons should rank among the most pressing policy issues for governments and societies, the United Nations human rights chief said today. “Regrettably, ...

As the increase in the number of older persons continues to accelerate - the annual growth rate was already more than twice of the total population between 2005 and 2010 – governments and civil society organizations are focusing more on the issues related to this segment of the population. In ...

The open-ended working group on 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 ...