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for the purpose of strengthening the protection
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Eighth Working Session

Date and Venue

The Eighth Working Session of the Working Group will be held from 5 to 7 July 2017 in Conference Room 4 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.

List of Side Events (in PDF)

Eighth Session Documents

• Proposed Organization of Work
• The provisional agenda of the 8th OEWG session A/AC.278/2017/1
  English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语
• Chair Summary
• Report of the Eighth Session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, A/AC.278/2017/2
  English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语

Statements to the Eighth Session

• Statements to the Eighth Session (PaperSmart)
• Statements from Member States
  
  • Statement by France - Item 5, Item 6 and Item 7

Documents Submitted to the Eighth Session

• Documents submitted by United Nations
  
  
  • Asunción Declaration - Outcome of the Fourth Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the Rights of Older Persons in Latin America and the Caribbean (2017)

• Documents submitted by NGOs
  
  
  • HelpAge International, Entitled to the same rights: What older women say about their rights to non-discrimination and equality, and to freedom from violence, abuse and neglect, 2017
    English | Russian | Spanish
  • AGE Platform Europe, HelpAge International, The Law in the Service of the Elderly, and National Association of Community Legal Centres Australia, Equality and non-discrimination, 2017
  • AGE Platform Europe, HelpAge International, The Law in the Service of the Elderly, and National Association of Community Legal Centres Australia, Freedom from violence, abuse and neglect, 2017
  • Agewell, Changing Needs & Rights of Older People in India - A Review
  • National Association of Community Legal Centres: Towards a Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, 2017

Background Analytical Overview Papers

• Equality and non-discrimination
  
• Violence, neglect and abuse

Call for inputs on focus issues of the 8th session: The deadline is Now Closed

• Guiding questions on equality and non-discrimination
• Guiding questions on neglect, violence and abuse

Links to submissions from:

• Member States
• "A-Status" National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs)
• Accredited Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
• United Nations System

Briefings

• Daily NGO Briefings
  Sponsored by the Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People and the NGO Committees on Ageing of NY, Geneva & Vienna, 5-7 July, 9 -10 am. Conference Building (CB), Conference Room E
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