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Cooperatives in social development (2016), para. 03
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- Recognizing that cooperatives, in their various forms, promote the fullest possible participation in the economic and social development of all people, including women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, are becoming a significant factor of economic and social development and contribute to the eradication of poverty and hunger,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 22, 2021
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2002), para. 15
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- 6. Invites Member States, where appropriate, to consider extending the mandate of national committees or other mechanisms established on the occasion of the International Year of Older Persons in order to undertake national preparations for the Second World Assembly, and invites those Member States currently without such mechanisms to consider appropriate ways or mechanisms for their preparations for the Second World Assembly;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2009), para. 16
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- 13. Encourages the international community to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable social and economic support for older persons;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004), para. 38
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- (e) With effect from 1 January 1999, all pensions in course of payment as at 31 December 1998, including pensions of judges who retire on or before that date, shall be increased by 10.3 per cent, i.e., the change resulting from the increase in the annual salary;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Integrating volunteering in the next decade (2013), para. 25
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- 18. Reaffirms the need to encourage volunteerism in all its forms, which contributes significantly to the cohesiveness and the well-being of communities and of societies as a whole and which involves and benefits all segments of society, especially women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities, migrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1998), para. 04
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- Mindful of the need to promote adherence to the United Nations Principles for Older Persons, as adopted by its resolution 46/91 of 16 December 1991,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 21
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- 1. Reaffirms the Political Declaration 1 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002; 2
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2008), para. 09
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- 4. Encourages the United Nations regional commissions to consolidate the national findings of the review and appraisal by involving, inter alia, representatives of organizations of older persons from various regions that are directly involved in the participatory bottom-up review and appraisal exercise;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (2016), para. 17
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- 8. Requests the Secretary-General, in the context of future budget submissions for the Mechanism, to include a provision to fund the liabilities due within the related biennium for the pensions of retired judges, and their surviving spouses, and for after-service health insurance benefits to former staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Mechanism and, as appropriat e, the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 07
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- Conscious that older persons represent a large and growing segment of the population and that greater attention is needed to the specific human rights challenges affecting them,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice and judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2011), para. 12
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- 5. Decides to review at its sixty-sixth session the pension schemes for the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and requests the Secretary-General to include in his report a proposal for a mechanism that he may use to determine retirement pension benefits, taking into account acquired pension benefit rights accrued prior to serving in the Court or the Tribunals;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers (2006), para. 12
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- 5. Reaffirms the need to recognize and promote all forms of volunteerism as an issue that involves and benefits all segments of society, including children, young persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and immigrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems (2020), para. 68
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- 23. Calls upon Member States to scale up efforts to promote healthy and active ageing, to maintain and improve quality of life of older persons and to respond to the needs of the rapidly ageing population, especially the need for promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care as well as specialized care and the sustainable provision of long-term care, taking into account national contexts and priorities;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2019), para. 18
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- 3. Calls upon Governments to scale up literacy programmes for children, youth and adults, including older persons, with particular attention to those who are vulnerable or marginalized, to foster innovative delivery of literacy services, including through technology and a strengthened institutional network, to promote an intersectoral approach by linking literacy learning with multiple sectors to address diverse learning needs, such as through relevant and inclusive educational resources in different languages, to establish multi-stakeholder partnerships with the active participation of civil society and the private sector, to improve distance and digital learning resources and to develop a data-collection mechanism to assess levels of literacy, so as to encourage the integration of literacy learning into vocational training and health education to promote sustainable development;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Human resources development (2020), para. 42
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- 20. Recognizes that an ageing workforce can have positive and negative implications for labour markets, and stresses the importance of lifelong learning to ensure the inclusion of older workers in the future of work;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2008), para. 12
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- 7. Encourages the international community and the relevant agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on gender and ageing;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 23
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- (e) To raise awareness of the challenges faced in the realization of the human rights of older persons and of the positive contribution of older persons to society, and to provide them with information about their rights;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 49
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- 36. Encourages the international community, including international and bilateral donors, to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable and adequate social and economic support for older persons, while bearing in mind that countries have the primary responsibility for their own economic and social development;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004), para. 55
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- (e) With effect from 1 January 1999, all pensions in course of payment as at 31 December 1998, including pensions of judges who retire on or before that date, shall be increased by 10.3 per cent, i.e., the change resulting from the increase in the annual salary;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 12
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- Concerned that many health systems are not sufficiently prepared to respond to the needs of the rapidly ageing population, including the need for preventive, curative, palliative and specialized care,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 15
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- 11. Calls upon Governments to ensure, as appropriate, conditions that enable families and communities to provide care and protection to persons as they age, and to evaluate improvement in the health status of older persons, including on a gender-specific basis, and to reduce disability and mortality;
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 12
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- Convinced of the necessity to ensure an action-oriented follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons with a view to sustaining that momentum,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 05
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- Reaffirming that the Political Declaration and Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 4 provide a broad spectrum of social, political and economic recommendations to improve the conditions of older women,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, and further efforts to achieve the sustainable development of water resources (2015), para. 18
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- 6. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, in the implementation of the Decade at all levels and, as appropriate, in its comprehensive review;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 05
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- Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 and stressing the need to ensure that issues of relevance to older persons are taken into account in its implementation in order to ensure that no one is left behind, including older persons,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 22
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- 14. Recognizes the importance of strengthening intergenerational partnerships and solidarity among generations, and in this regard calls upon Member States to promote opportunities for voluntary, constructive and regular interaction between young people and older generations in the family, the workplace and society at large;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 54
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- 41. Reiterates the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in order to promote and facilitate further implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, as well as the results of its review and appraisal cycle, and in this regard encourages Governments to support the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing so as to enable the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide expanded assistance to countries, upon their request;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 20
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- 7. 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;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2007), para. 30
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- 21. Reaffirms the obligation of all States and parties to an armed conflict to protect civilians in armed conflicts in accordance with international humanitarian law, and invites States to promote a culture of protection, taking into account the particular needs of women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 05
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- Recognizing that, by 2050, more than 20 per cent of the world’s population will be 60 years of age or older, and recognizing also that the increase in the number of older people will be the greatest and the most rapid in the developing world,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date modified
- Sep 21, 2020
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