A/RES/79/147 Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing services, information and communications technologies, including new technologies, assistive technologies, full and productive employment and decent work, encouraging their effective and meaningful participation, protecting their human rights, combating ageism and all forms of violence against them, as well as obtaining data disaggregated by income, sex, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographical location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts, Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 3 and stressing the need to ensure that issues of relevance to older persons are taken into account in its implementation in order to ensure that no one is left behind, including older persons, Recalling also the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 4 the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 5 the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 6 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 7 the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 8 and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 9 Noting the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 10 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 11 Noting also the regional developments on the protection and promotion of the human rights of older persons, including the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa, Noting further that, between 2024 and 2030, the number of persons aged 60 years or over is projected to grow by 19 per cent, from 1.2 billion to 1.4 billion, globally outnumbering youth and doubling the number of children under age 5,12 and that this increase will be the greatest and the most rapid in the developing world, and recognizing that greater attention needs to be paid to the specific challenges affecting older persons, including in the field of human rights, Recalling World Health Assembly resolutions on ageing, specifically resolution 58.16 of 25 May 2005 on strengthening active and healthy ageing, 13 which stressed the important role of public health policies and programmes in enabling the rapidly growing number of older persons to remain in good health and maintain their many vital contributions to the well-being of their families, communities and societies, resolution 65.3 of 25 May 2012 on strengthening non-communicable disease policies to promote active ageing, 14 which recognized that population ageing is among the major factors contributing to the rising incidence and prevalence of non-communicable diseases and noted the importance of lifelong health-promotion and disease-prevention activities, and resolution 69.3 of 29 May 2016, entitled __________________ Resolution 70/1. Resolution 217 A (III). 5 See resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex. 6 Ibid. 7 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, No. 20378. 8 Ibid., vol. 2515, No. 44910. 9 Ibid., vol. 660, No. 9464. 10 Ibid., vol. 2220, No. 39481. 11 Resolution 61/295, annex. 12 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision. 13 See World Health Organization, document WHA 58/2005/REC/1. 14 See World Health Organization, document WHA 65/2012/REC/1. 3 4 2/12 24-24133