A/RES/72/144 Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing 48. Requests relevant entities of the United Nations system, including the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), to ensure that the situation of older women is mainstreamed and incorporated across their work and to support, in accordance with their respective mandates, the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular its aspects of relevance to older persons, including gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls; 49. Invites relevant entities of the United Nations system, including UN-Women, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Food Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Health Organization, among others, as well as the International Organization for Migration, to include in reports to their respective governing bodies relevant information on efforts made by Member States and the international community on issues of relevance to older persons, including their social inclusion; 50. Notes with appreciation the work of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, 11 and recognizes the positive contributions of Member States, as well as relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, including relevant human rights mandate holders and treaty bodies and the regional commissions , as well as national human rights institutions, intergovernmental and relevant non-governmental organizations with an interest in the matter and invited panellists, during the first eight working sessions of the Working Group, and invites Member States, as well as relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system and other relevant stakeholders, to continue to make contributions to the work entrusted to the Working Group, as appropriate; 51. Encourages Member States to continue to contribute to the work of the Open-ended Working Group, in particular by presenting measures to enhance the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons, such as best practices, lessons learned and possible content for a multilateral leg al instrument, as appropriate, in order to enable it to fulfil its existing mandate of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons by considering the existing international framework of the human rights of older persons and identifyin g possible gaps and how best to address them, including by considering, as appropriate, the feasibility of further instruments and measures; 52. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide all necessary support to the Open-ended Working Group, within existing resources, for the organization of its ninth working session, in 2018, and to include the annual sessions of the Working Group in the Organization’s calendar of conferences and meetings; 53. Invites the Independent Expert to address and engage in an interactive dialogue with the General Assembly at its seventy-third session under the agenda item entitled “Social development”; 54. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. 73rd plenary meeting 19 December 2017 __________________ 11 8/8 A/AC.278/2016/2 and A/AC.278/2017/2. 17-22932

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