A/RES/78/324
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 August 2024
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 119
Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 13 August 2024
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/78/L.104/Rev.1)]
78/324.
Consideration of decision 14/1 of the Open-ended Working Group
on Ageing, entitled “Recommendations regarding the
identification of possible gaps in the protection of the human
rights of older persons and how best to address them”
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 65/182 of 21 December 2010, in which it established an
open-ended working group, open to all States Members of the United Nations, for the
purpose 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 identifying possible gaps and how best to address them, including by considering,
as appropriate, the feasibility of further instruments and measures, as well as all its
subsequent resolutions on the follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing,
including resolution 78/177 of 19 December 2023,
Taking note of decision 13/1 of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, 1
Taking note also of decision 14/1 of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing,
entitled “Recommendations regarding the identification of possible gaps in the
protection of the human rights of older persons and how best to address them”, 2
Taking note with appreciation of the work of the Open-ended Working Group
on Ageing, and recognizing 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
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A/AC.278/2023/2, para. 30.
A/AC.278/2024/2, para. 28.
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