A/RES/71/164
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
44. Notes with appreciation the work of the Open-ended Working Group on
Ageing, 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 six 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;
45. 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 legal
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
identifying possible gaps and how best to address them, including by considering, as
appropriate, the feasibility of further instruments and measures;
46. 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 eighth working session, in 2017;
47. Invites the Independent Expert to address and engage in an interactive
dialogue with the General Assembly at its seventy-second session under the agenda
item entitled “Social development”;
48. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-second session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.
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