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

Eleventh Session

Date and Venue

The Eleventh Session of the Working Group will be held from 29 March to 1 April 2021 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York

List of Side Events - as of 23 March 2021  

List of NGOs Accredited to the OEWG on Ageing

The session will be live on UN WebTV - Watch the Webcast here

Call for inputs    -   CLOSED

The Chair of the Open-ended Working Group for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons, invites Members of the Working Group, “A” status National Human Rights Institutions, non-governmental organizations with ECOSOC Status and previously accredited organizations to the Working Group, as well as United Nations Funds, Programmes, Specialized Agencies and other UN Entities, to provide:

  1. Substantive inputs on the two focus areas of the Eleventh session, namely "Right to Work and Access to the Labour Market" and "Access to Justice" in the context of older persons. Please refer to “guiding questions” on each of the focus areas. Inputs should be in English and of no more than 800 words per focus area.
  1. Substantive inputs, in the form of normative content for the development of a possible international standard on the protection of the rights of older people to “Education, Training, Life-long Learning and Capacity Building” and “Social Protection and Social Security (including social protection floors)”, the two focus areas of the previous 10th session of the Working Group. Please refer to "guiding questions" on each of the focus areas. Inputs should be in English and of no more than 800 words per focus area.

Eleventh Session Communications and Documents

Statements to the Eleventh Session

Presentations

Documents submitted to the Eleventh Session

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