Ninth Working Session
Date and Venue
The Ninth Working Session of the Working Group will be held from 23 to 26 July 2018 in Conference Room 4 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
The session is being webcast live on: http://webtv.un.org
Online Registration for NGOs with ECOSOC Status and previously accredited organizations to the OEWG on Ageing - Deadline is NOW CLOSED
Participation of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) - Deadline is now CLOSED
Online Application Form for Side Events- Deadline is now CLOSED
Ninth Session Documents
- Proposed Organization of Work
- Provisional agenda of the 9th OEWG session
English | Français | Español | Русский | عربي | 汉语 - Report of the Ninth Session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, A/AC.278/2018/2
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Statements to the Ninth Session
Presentations to the Ninth Session
Documents submitted to the Ninth Session
- Documents submitted by NHRIs
- Documents submitted by NGOs
- HelpAge International, Freedom to decide for ourselves: What older people say about their rights to autonomy and independence, long-term care and palliative care, 2018
English | عربي | Русский | Español - AGE Platform Europe - Report of seminar on "Human rights of older persons" Brussels, 12-13 April 2018
- Joint submission - Age Platform Europe, HelpAge International, The Law in the Service of the Elderly and National Association of Community Legal Centres Australia:
Autonomy, independence, long-term care and palliative care: A discussion paper - Agewell Foundation, Independence in Old Age with special focus on Long-Term Palliative Care in India (A national Study, June - 2018)
- Palliative Care Australia, Principles for Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Residential Aged Care
- HelpAge International, Freedom to decide for ourselves: What older people say about their rights to autonomy and independence, long-term care and palliative care, 2018
Background Analytical Overview Papers
- Compilation of normative inputs - Working Documents
- Substantive Reports
Call for inputs on focus issues of the 9th session - Deadline 9 April 2018
The Chair of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, invites Members of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, “A” status National Human Rights Institutions, non-governmental organizations with ECOSOC Status and previously accredited organizations to the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, as well as United Nations Funds, Programmes, Specialized Agencies and other UN Entities, to provide:
- substantive inputs on the two focus areas of the upcoming 9th session, namely "Autonomy and Independence" and "Long-term and Palliative Care" 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.
- 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 “Equality and non-discrimination” and “Violence , neglect and abuse”; the two focus areas of the previous 8th session of the Working Group. Inputs should be in English and of no more than 800 words per focus area.
Kindly note that inputs should be sent to the United Nations focal point on Ageing, Ms. Rosemary Lane, at ageing@un.org by 9 April 2018.
As agreed by the Bureau of the Working Group, and in order to feed into the substantive discussion of the 9th session of the Working Group, the Secretariat has been requested to prepare the following:
- An analytical working document containing the inputs submitted on the two focus areas of the upcoming 9th session, namely "Autonomy and Independence" and "Long-term and Palliative Care"
- A compilation working document containing the inputs submitted on the two focus areas of the previous 8th session, namely “Equality and non-discrimination” and “Violence , neglect and abuse”
Documents:
Links to submissions from:
- Member States
- "A-Status" National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs)
- Accredited Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
- United Nations System
Briefings