A/RES/74/125 Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing 3. Encourages Member States to address the situation of older persons in their voluntary national reviews presented at the high-level political forum on sustainable development; 4. Recognizes that the major challenges faced by older persons undermine their social, economic and cultural participation; 5. Emphasizes the need to take effective measures against ageism and to view older persons as active contributors to society and not as passive receivers of care and assistance and an impending burden on welfare systems and economies, while promoting and protecting their human rights; 6. Encourages Member States to intensify efforts towards identifying ageing as an opportunity, and recognizes that older persons make substantial contributions to sustainable development efforts, including through their active participation in society; 7. Recognizes the challenges related to the enjoyment of all human rights that older persons face in different areas and that those challenges require in -depth analysis and action to address protection gaps, and calls upon all States to promote and ensure the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for older persons, including by progressively taking measures to combat age discrimination, neglect, abuse and violence, as well as social isolation and loneliness, to provide social protection, access to food and housing, health-care services, employment, legal capacity and access to justice and to address issues related to social integration and gender inequality through mainstreaming the rights of older persons into sustainable development strategies, urban policies and poverty reduction strategies, bearing in mind the crucial importance of intergenerational solidarity for social development; 8. Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons and the renewal of the mandate at the forty-second session of the Human Rights Council, 16 and stresses the importance of close coordination between the work of the Independ ent Expert and the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing established by the General Assembly in paragraph 28 of its resolution 65/182, while avoiding unnecessary duplication of their respective mandates and those of other special procedures and subsidiary organs of the Council, and relevant United Nations bodies and treaty bodies; 9. Takes note of the report of the Independent Expert issued at the fortysecond session of the Human Rights Council, 17 and encourages Member States to be mindful of the recommendations contained therein; 10. Invites Member States to continue to share their national experiences in developing and implementing policies and programmes aimed at strengthening the promotion and protection of the human rights of older persons, including within the framework of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing; 11. Encourages Governments to actively address, through national, regional and international efforts, issues that affect older persons and to ensure that the social integration of older persons and the promotion and protection o f their rights form an integral part of development policies at all levels; 12. Encourages Member States to adopt and implement non-discriminatory policies, legislation and regulations, to systematically review and amend these, where appropriate, if they discriminate against older persons, especially on the basis of age, and to take appropriate measures to prevent discrimination against older persons in, __________________ 16 17 4/10 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53A (A/74/53/Add.1), chap. III, resolution 42/12. A/HRC/42/43. 19-22218