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Open-ended Working Group on Ageing
for the purpose of strengthening the protection
of the human rights of older persons

No further updates are expected on these pages. See General Assembly resolution A/RES/78/324: English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语

WHO ARE WE?

The Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing 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, including by considering, as appropriate, the feasibility of further instruments and measures.

A/RES/67/139   English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语
Towards a Comprehensive and Integral International Legal Instrument to Promote and Protect the Rights and Dignity of Older Persons

A/RES/65/182   English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing.

WHAT'S NEW?

The Fourteenth Session of the Working Group was held in May 2024 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Report of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing on its Fourteenth Session A/AC.278/2024/2 - English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语

READ MORE

Click here to access Ageing Social Policy and Development Division web site.

Click here to access last year's Working Session including: the report, agenda and programme of work, statements to the Working Group, presentations of panellists and other related documents

Click here to access related expert group meetings and workshops

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