A/RES/67/139
United Nations
Distr.: General
13 February 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda items 27 (b) and (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 2012
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/67/449 and Corr.1)]
67/139. Towards a comprehensive and integral international legal
instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity
of older persons
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
and the obligations contained in the relevant human rights instruments,
Reaffirming also that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 proclaims
that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, and that
everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without distinction
of any kind, such as age, race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other
opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status,
Recalling all General Assembly resolutions on matters relating to older
persons, including older women, beginning with resolution 2542 (XXIV) of
11 December 1969, and recalling also all relevant resolutions on the promotion and
protection of the rights and dignity of older persons of the Economic and Social
Council and the Commission for Social Development, as well as of the Commission
on the Status of Women, as appropriate,
Reaffirming the outcomes of the World Assembly on Ageing, 2 the United
Nations Principles for Older Persons of 1991, 3 the global targets on ageing for the
year 2001, as agreed in 1992, 4 and the Proclamation on Ageing of 1992, 5 as well as
the outcomes of the Second World Assembly on Ageing 6 and the respective
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1
Resolution 217 A (III).
See Report of the World Assembly on Ageing, Vienna, 26 July–6 August 1982 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.82.I.16).
3
Resolution 46/91, annex.
4
A/47/339, sect. III.
5
Resolution 47/5, annex.
6
See Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations
publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4).
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