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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 57
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- 41. 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, as appropriate, in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information with regard to a gender perspective on ageing, as well as to include indicators that provide an evidence base for the equitable delivery and effective monitoring of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the New Urban Agenda 11 and national policymaking, as well as to gain a better understanding of how to promote ageing in a way that is not adversely affected by rapid urbanization and gentrification;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 11
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- 3. Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to eradicate poverty among older persons, in particular older women, by mainstreaming ageing issues into poverty eradication strategies and national development plans, and to include both ageing-specific policies and ageing-mainstreaming efforts in their national strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2004), para. 09
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- 2. Also takes note of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, contained in the report of the Secretary-General;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2001), para. 06
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- Reiterating that the Second World Assembly on Ageing should give particular attention, inter alia, to linkages between ageing and development, with particular attention to the needs, priorities and perspectives of developing countries,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2010), para. 22
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- 18. Also encourages the international community to support national efforts to forge stronger partnerships with civil society, including organizations of older persons, academia, research foundations, community-based organizations, including caregivers, and the private sector, in an effort to help to build capacity on ageing issues;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 26
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- 22. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 29
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- 16. Invites Member States to identify key priority areas for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, including empowering older persons and promoting their rights, raising awareness of ageing issues and building national capacities to address ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 26
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- (f) Promoting consultation with and the participation of rural women and, as appropriate, girls, including those who are indigenous, those with disabilities and older women, through their organizations and networks, in the design, development and implementation of and follow-up to programmes and strategies for gender equality, the empowerment of women and rural development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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New Urban Agenda (2017), para. 088
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- 62. We commit ourselves to addressing the social, economic and spatial implications of ageing populations, where applicable, and harnessing the ageing factor as an opportunity for new decent jobs and sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, while improving the quality of life of the urban population.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Towards a comprehensive and integral international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons (2013), para. 06
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- Recognizing that different efforts made to increase cooperation and integration and increasing awareness of and sensitivity to ageing issues since the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 7 by Governments, relevant bodies of the United Nations system and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, have not been sufficient to promote full and effective participation by and opportunities for older persons in economic, social, cultural and political life,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2006), para. 13
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- 8. Invites the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council to integrate the issues of population and individual ageing into their work in order to promote implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 29
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- 16. Encourages Governments that have not done so to designate focal points for handling the follow-up of national plans of action on ageing, and also encourages Governments to strengthen existing networks of national focal points on ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 13
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- 1. Reaffirms the Political Declaration 1 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002; 2
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 52
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- 40. Recommends that Member States reaffirm the role of United Nations focal points on ageing, increase technical cooperation efforts, expand the role of the regional commissions on ageing issues, continue to provide resources for those efforts, facilitate the coordination of national and international non-governmental organizations on ageing and enhance cooperation with academia on a research agenda on ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 49
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- 36. Encourages the international community to support national efforts to forge stronger partnerships with civil society, including organizations of older persons, academia, research foundations, community-based organizations, including caregivers, and the private sector, in an effort to help to build capacity on ageing issues;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 21
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- 8. Calls upon Governments and the United Nations system to ensure that the needs, perspectives and experiences of older women are reflected in all development policies and programmes;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 17
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- 4. Urges Governments and regional and international organizations, including the United Nations system in cooperation with civil society, including non-governmental organizations, where appropriate, to promote programmes for healthy active ageing that stress the independence, equality, participation and security of older women and to undertake gender-specific research and programmes to address their needs;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 44
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- 28. Also calls upon Member States to strengthen and incorporate a gender and disability perspective into all policy actions on ageing, as well as to address and eliminate discrimination on the basis of age, sex or disability, and recommends that Member States engage with all sectors of society, in particular with relevant organizations with an interest in the matter, including organizations of older persons, women and persons with disabilities, in changing negative stereotypes about older persons, in particular older women and older persons with disabilities, and promote positive images of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2000), para. 07
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- Bearing in mind that, under its resolution 54/24, the General Assembly has entrusted the Commission for Social Development with the revision of the International Plan of Action on Ageing and the elaboration of a long-term strategy on ageing,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 28
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- 14. Decides to entrust the Commission for Social Development with the revision of the International Plan of Action on Ageing and the elaboration of a long-term strategy on ageing, based on new developments since 1982 and on the experience of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999, with a view to the adoption of a revised plan of action and of a long-term strategy on ageing in 2002;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1996), para. 16
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- 12. Invites the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to continue its work on ageing and the situation of older persons, as described in its reports; 2/
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 56
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- 40. Also encourages the international community to support national efforts to forge stronger partnerships with civil society, including organizations of older persons, academia, research foundations, faith-based organizations, community- based organizations, including caregivers, and the private sector, in an effort to help to build capacity on ageing issues;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2004), para. 16
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- 9. Requests the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on the Status of Women to further coordinate and collaborate through their respective bureaux on the issue of older women within the framework of their respective multi-year programmes of work;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 12
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- 1. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective, taking into account the needs of older women, in policy and planning processes at all levels;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 18
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- 7. Invites Governments and the United Nations system to give attention to the situation of older women in the context of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, to be held at Madrid in April 2002, including the integration of a gender perspective into the outcome document.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2009), para. 17
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- 14. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 33
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- 17. Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national capacities to address their national implementation priorities identified during the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action by considering and devising strategies that take into account the entirety of the human life course and foster intergenerational solidarity, the strengthening of institutional mechanisms, research, data collection and analysis and the training of necessary personnel in the field of ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 08
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- Acknowledging the efforts of States to determine the best way to strengthen the protection of the human rights of older persons, considering the various proposals that have been made within the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, including the possible elaboration of a multilateral legal instrument on the rights of older persons,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights (2018), para. 19
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- Welcoming the work, and taking note with appreciation of the reports, 1 of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, whose mandate includes, inter alia, conducting, facilitating and supporting the provision of advisory services, technical assistance, capacity-building and international cooperation in support of national efforts for the effective realization of the rights of older persons, and acknowledging the work of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Missing persons (2019), para. 15
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- Bearing in mind that the question of missing persons entails consequences not only for the victims themselves, but also for their families, especially women, children and older persons, and in this regard recognizing the importance of addressing the legal situation of missing persons in connection with armed conflict and supporting their family members through national policies that include a gender perspective, as appropriate,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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