A/RES/72/144
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
17 January 2018
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 27 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 19 December 2017
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/72/431)]
72/144.
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 57/167 of 18 December 2002, in which it endorsed the
Political Declaration 1 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2 its
resolution 58/134 of 22 December 2003, in which it took note, inter alia, of the road
map for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, and its resolutions 60/135
of 16 December 2005, 61/142 of 19 December 2006, 62/130 of 18 December 2007,
63/151 of 18 December 2008, 64/132 of 18 December 2009, 65/182 of 21 December
2010, 66/127 of 19 December 2011, 67/139 and 67/143 of 20 December 2012, 68/134
of 18 December 2013, 69/146 of 18 December 2014, 70/164 of 17 December 2015
and 71/164 of 19 December 2016,
Recognizing that, in many parts of the world, awareness of the Madrid Plan of
Action remains limited or non-existent, which limits the scope of implementation
efforts,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General, 3
Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 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,
Noting the recent 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,
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Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I.
Ibid., annex II.
A/72/161 and A/72/161/Corr.1.
Resolution 70/1.
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