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for the purpose of strengthening the protection
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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.

• Guiding Questions - Right to Work and Access to the Labour Market
• Guiding Questions - Access to Justice

2. 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.

• Guiding Questions (Normative) - Education, Training, Life-long Learning and Capacity Building
• Guiding Questions (Normative) - Social Protection and Social Security (including social protection floors)

Eleventh Session Communications and Documents

• Provisional Agenda A/AC.278/2021/1 - English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语
• Report of the Eleventh Session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing A/AC.278/2021/2 - English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语
• Provisional List of Participants - A/AC.278/2021/INF/1
• Proposed Organization of Work - A/AC.278/2021/CRP.1
• Substantive Inputs in the form of Normative Content for the Development of a Possible International Standard on the Focus Areas “Education, Training, Lifelong learning and Capacity Building” and “Social Protection and Social Security (including social protections floors)” (A/AC.278/2021/CRP.2) - Working document submitted by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
• Substantive Inputs on the Focus Area “Right to Work and Access to the Labour Market” (A/AC.278/2021/CRP.3) - Working document submitted by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
• Substantive inputs on the focus area “Access to justice” (A/AC.278/2021/CRP.4) - Working document submitted by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

Statements to the Eleventh Session

• Statement by Mr. Volkan Bozkır, President of the General Assembly
• Statement by Ms. Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Statement by Ms. Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights
• Statements by Member States
• Statements by Regional Groups
• Statements by NHRIs
• Statements by NGOs

Presentations

• Joint Introduction of Conference Room Paper A/AC.278/2021/CRP.2 (Ms. Amal Abou Rafeh and Mr. Rio Hada, statement)
• Introduction of Conference Room Paper A/AC.278/2021/CRP.3 (Ms. Masumi Ono, presentation)
• Introduction of Conference Room Paper A/AC.278/2021/CRP.4 (Mr. Craig Mokhiber, statement)
• Access to Justice - Presentation by Mr. Bill Mitchell, Panel member
• Access to Justice - Statement by Dr. Alejandro Robino, Panel member
• Presentation by Dr. Mónica Roqué, Panel member
• Statement by Mr. Matthias von Schwanenflügel, Panel member
• Statements by Ms. Claudia Mahler, Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons: HLP Covid-19 | Right to Work
• Right to Work - Statement by Ms. Astrid Dentler, Panel member
• Presentation and Paper by Mr. Francisco Cevallos Tejada, Panel member
• Presentation by Prof. Liat Ayalon, Panel member
• Right to Work - Statement by Mr. Chris Gardner, Panel member
• Education - Statement by Prof. Barbara Mikołajczyk, Panel member

Documents submitted to the Eleventh Session

• Documents submitted by United Nations :
  

  • Working paper prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – “Update to the 2012 Analytical Outcome Study on the normative standards in international human rights law in relation to older persons”
  • First UN Global Report on Ageism (March 2021)
  • Guidelines for Mainstreaming Ageing (UNECE, 2021)

• Documents submitted by NGOs :
  

  • HelpAge International :
    • Keeping our dignity, 2019: English | Español | Russian | عربي
    • Unequal Treatment: What older people say about their rights during the COVID-19 pandemic. Available in: English | Español | Russian | عربي
  • Age Platform Europe, HelpAge International, The Law in the Service of the Elderly and Community Legal Centres Australia (National Association of Community Legal Centres Australia):
    • Access to justice: A discussion paper
    • Work and access to the labour market: A discussion paper
  • Age Platform Europe:
    • Human Rights are for All Ages: The EU Must Lead the Rallying for a UN Convention – Full report | Summary
    • The Right to Work in Old Age - How the EU Employment Framework Directive still leaves older workers behind, March 2021
  • Agewell Foundation, India:
    • Access to Justice in India for Old People with special focus on Right to Work, March 2020
    • Changing Needs of Old People in India with special focus on current old age care & support scenario - A Review, March 2021
  • International Longevity Center Canada - Joint Statement on the Rights of Older Persons with Mental Health Conditions and Psychosocial Disabilities

Links to submissions from:

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