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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 29 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State parties must recognize that older women are an important resource to society, and have the obligation to take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to eliminate discrimination against older women. States parties should adopt gender-sensitive and age- specific policies and measures, including temporary special measures, in line with article 4, paragraph 1 of the Convention and general recommendations No. 23 (1997) and No. 25 (2004) of the Committee, to ensure that older women participate fully and effectively in the political, social, economic, cultural and civil life, and any other field in their societies. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties' obligations should take into account the multidimensional nature of discrimination against women and ensure that the principle of gender equality applies throughout women's life cycle, in legislation and in the practical implementation thereof. In this regard, States parties are urged to repeal or amend existing laws, regulations and customs that discriminate against older women, and ensure that legislation proscribes discrimination on the grounds of age and sex. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 32 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In order to support legal reform and policy formulation, States parties are urged to collect, analyse and disseminate data disaggregated by age and sex, so as to have information on the situation of older women, including those living in rural areas, areas of conflict, belonging to minority groups, and with disabilities. Such data should especially focus, among other issues, on poverty, illiteracy, violence, unpaid work, including care- giving to those living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, migration, access to health care, housing, social and economic benefits and employment. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 33 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties should provide older women with information on their rights and how to access legal services. They should train the police, judiciary as well as legal aid and paralegal services on the rights of older women, and sensitize and train public authorities and institutions on age- and gender-related issues that affect older women. Information, legal services, effective remedies and reparation must be made equally available and accessible to older women with disabilities. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | State parties should pay special attention to the violence suffered by older women in times of armed conflict, the impact of armed conflicts on the lives of older women, and the contribution that older women can make to the peaceful settlement of conflicts and to reconstruction processes. States parties should give due consideration to the situation of older women when addressing sexual violence, forced displacement and the conditions of refugees during armed conflict. States parties should take into account relevant United Nations resolutions on women and peace and security when addressing such matters, including, in particular, Security Council resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008) and 1889 (2009). | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 42 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties have an obligation to ensure that the retirement age in both the public and private sectors do not discriminate against women. Consequently, States parties have an obligation to ensure that pension policies are not discriminatory in any manner, even when women opt to retire early, and that all older women who have been active have access to adequate pensions. States parties should adopt all appropriate measures, including, where necessary, temporary special measures, to guarantee such pensions. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 47 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties have an obligation to eliminate discrimination in all its forms against older women in economic and social life. All barriers based on age and gender to accessing agricultural credit and loans should be removed and access to appropriate technology for older women farmers and small landholders should be ensured. States parties should provide special support systems and collateral-free microcredit, as well as encourage micro- entrepreneurship for older women. Recreational facilities for older women should be created and outreach services should be provided to older women who are confined to their homes. States parties should provide affordable and appropriate transportation to enable older women, including those living in rural areas, to participate in economic and social life, including community activities. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 48 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States Parties should take necessary measures to ensure older women have access to adequate housing that meet their specific needs, and all barriers, architectural and other, that hinder the mobility of older persons and lead to forced confinement should be removed. States parties should provide social services that enable older women to remain in their homes and live independently for as long as possible. Laws and practices that negatively affect older women's right to housing, land and property should be abolished. States parties should also protect older women against forced evictions and homelessness. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 52 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties must repeal all legislation that discriminates against older widows in respect of property and inheritance, and protect them from land grabbing. They must adopt laws of intestate succession that comply with their obligations under the Convention. Furthermore, they should take measures to end practices that force older women to marry against their will, and ensure that succession is not conditional on forced marriage to a deceased husband's sibling or any other person. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Rights of rural women 2016, para. 39a | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [States parties should safeguard the right of rural women and girls to adequate health care, and ensure:] That high-quality health-care services and facilities are physically accessible to and affordable for rural women, including older women, heads of household and women with disabilities (provided free of charge when necessary), culturally acceptable to them and staffed with trained medical personnel. Services should provide: primary health care, including family planning; access to contraception, including emergency contraception, and to safe abortion and high-quality post-abortion care, regardless of whether abortion is legal; prenatal, perinatal, postnatal and obstetric services; HIV prevention and treatment services, including emergency intervention following rape; mental health services; counselling on nutrition, the feeding of infants and young children; mammography and other gynaecological examinations services; the prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases, such as cancer; access to essential medicines, including pain relief; and palliative care; | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 36 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties have an obligation to eliminate negative stereotyping and modify social and cultural patterns of conduct that are prejudicial and harmful to older women, so as to reduce the physical, sexual, psychological, verbal and economic abuse that older women, including those with disabilities, experience based on negative stereotyping and cultural practices. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 105d (vi) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Working Group recommends that States:] Adopt a holistic approach towards women's health and safety by looking at their full life cycle from childhood to old age as interconnected phases with distinct considerations and needs, and in this regard: Provide adequate nutrition and free services for pregnant and lactating women, as required by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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The realization of the right to health of older persons 2011, para. 70 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In a report of this length, it is impossible to address all of the important issues, but the Special Rapporteur notes with urgency the present demographic changes leading to a rapidly increasing number of older persons. Society should move beyond seeking simply healthy ageing for its citizens, and begin working towards active and dignified ageing, which should be planned and supported just like any other stage of the individual's life course. Planning for old age implies putting in place diagnostic and prevention services at the primary healthcare level long before ageing sets in. The pursuit of active and dignified ageing for older persons requires re-framing society's concept of ageing to focus on the continued participation of older persons in social, economic, cultural and civic affairs, as well as their continuous contributions to society longer into their lives. The promotion and protection of the human rights of older persons should be of concern to everyone because ageing is a process which everyone will undergo. Older persons are especially vulnerable as a group because of stereotyped perceptions of the group as a "lapsed" segment of society. However, as life expectancy increases and medicine improves, older persons stay active longer than ever before, both in terms of occupational and non-occupational activities. Encouraging older persons to remain physically, politically, socially and economically active for as long as possible will benefit not only the individual, but also the society as a whole. | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Special Procedures' report |
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The Kampala Convention: a road map for action 2014, para. 87f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Special Rapporteur also recommends that States Members of the African Union:] Establish or strengthen the mechanisms promoting the engagement and participation of local authorities, communities, civil society organizations and the private sector in issues relating to internal displacement; community participation should involve those who are most vulnerable; in particular, potentially vulnerable groups, such as women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities, should be fully included in disaster prevention, response planning and implementation to ensure that their specific needs are addressed; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
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Impact of the criminalization of migration on the protection and enjoyment of human rights 2010, para. 80 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Special Rapporteur encourages the establishment and implementation of institutionalized services and programmes to provide comprehensive support and protection to persons arriving in mixed migratory flows, especially women, children and the elderly, including means to detect those who are in need of international protection. Protection services should include access to humanitarian assistance in the first instance, including adequate food and water, and access to health services, legal advice and effective asylum procedures. Longer term needs should include access to durable solutions in the case of persons in need of international protection and support for return to the community of origin for those people who are deemed able to return with no risk to their human rights. | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Detention of migrants in an irregular situation 2012, para. 72j | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Special Rapporteur calls on States to consider progressively abolishing the administrative detention of migrants. In the meantime, Governments should take measures to ensure respect for the human rights of migrants in the context of detention, including by:] Taking into due consideration the particular vulnerabilities of specific groups of migrants including victims of torture, unaccompanied older migrants, migrants with a mental or physical disability and migrants living with HIV/AIDS. Detention of migrants belonging to vulnerable categories and in need of special assistance should be only allowed as a measure of last resort, and they should be provided with adequate medical and psychological assistance; | Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Special Procedures' report |
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Social protection and old age poverty 2010, para. 106 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Non-contributory pensions are the only means by which universal pension coverage can be achieved and gender imbalances redressed. However, social pensions must not be regarded as the sole response to old-age poverty. To be effective in the promotion of an adequate standard of living, social pensions can only be one component of a comprehensive social protection strategy that addresses the impact of extreme poverty throughout one person's life cycle and includes measures to ensure older persons access to adequate social services, in particular access to health care. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 87 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States must ensure that social protection systems do not create significant inequalities between those who have an interrupted participation in the labour force - due for example to parenthood, care for older persons or persons with disabilities - and those who do not. At a minimum, States must provide universal non-contributory social pensions that are sufficient for an adequate standard of living, and ensure that women living in poverty can access them. The introduction of carer credits into a country's pension or superannuation system can provide a method of explicitly recognizing those years spent providing unpaid care. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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The implementation of the right to social protection through the adoption of social protection floors 2014, para. 63 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The Social Protection Floor Initiative should also be a focus of attention for many of the special procedures mandate holders dealing with relevant issues. The initiative is of particular importance for those concerned with the rights of children, women, persons with disabilities, older persons and others. | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Special Procedures' report |
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The realization of the right to health of older persons 2011, para. 71f | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Special Rapporteur recommends:] Putting in place policies and procedures for reporting, addressing and preventing abuse of older persons; | Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health | Special Procedures' report |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 30 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties have an obligation to ensure the full development and advancement of women throughout their life cycle in times of both peace and conflict, as well as in the event of any man-made and/or natural disaster. States parties should therefore ensure that all legal provisions, policies and interventions aimed at the full development and advancement of women do not discriminate against older women. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 37 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties have an obligation to draft legislation recognizing and prohibiting violence, including domestic, sexual violence and violence in institutional settings, against older women, including those with disabilities. States parties have an obligation to investigate, prosecute and punish all acts of violence against older women, including those committed as a result of traditional practices and beliefs. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 41 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties have an obligation to facilitate the participation of older women in paid work without discrimination based on their age and gender. States parties should ensure that special attention is paid to addressing problems that older women might face in their working life, and that they are not forced into early retirement or similar situations. States parties should also monitor the impact of gender-related pay gaps on older women. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 46 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties should adopt special programmes tailored to the physical, mental, emotional and health needs of older women, with special focus on women belonging to minorities and women with disabilities, as well as women tasked with caring for grandchildren and other young family dependants due to the migration of young adults, and women caring for family members living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Older women and protection of their human rights 2010, para. 49 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | States parties should ensure that older women are included and represented in rural and urban development planning processes. States parties should ensure the provision of affordable water, electricity and other utilities to older women. Policies aimed at increasing access to safe water and adequate sanitation should ensure that the related technologies are accessible and do not require undue physical strength. | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women | General Comment / Recommendation |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 129 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Working Group recommends that States:] States should recognize, reduce and redistribute unpaid care work for children and other disabled or elderly dependents, by including unpaid care work in gross national product; allowing deduction of care expenses for tax purposes; improving the environmental and service infrastructure to reduce private care burdens; and synchronizing school time with working time; | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in economic and social life with a focus on economic crisis 2014, para. 135 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Working Group recommends that States:] Ensure that women are not forced into early retirement; that women who have been economically active have access to adequate occupational pensions, including by introducing gender-specific compensatory measures such as accumulation of pension rights during maternity and childcare absences; unisex calculation of benefits; equalizing of mandatory retirement age and mandatory joint annuities. | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 105d (vii) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Working Group recommends that States:] Adopt a holistic approach towards women's health and safety by looking at their full life cycle from childhood to old age as interconnected phases with distinct considerations and needs, and in this regard: Ensure that laws, policies and practices mandate respect for women's autonomy in their decision-making, especially regarding pregnancy, birthing and postnatal care; | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Eliminating discrimination against women in the area of health and safety, with a focus on the instrumentalization of women's bodies 2016, para. 105d (viii) | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | [The Working Group recommends that States:] Adopt a holistic approach towards women's health and safety by looking at their full life cycle from childhood to old age as interconnected phases with distinct considerations and needs, and in this regard: Provide gender- and age-sensitive health-care services for older women, taking cognizance of their heightened health and safety vulnerability; | Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice | Special Procedures' report |
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Rights of linguistic minorities 2013, para. 81 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Minority communities are not homogenous and it is important to understand the challenges facing those, including women, children and the elderly, whose needs, perceptions and expectations may vary. Older people, who may be first-generation immigrants, may have stronger linguistic and cultural ties than young people who have been brought up and educated in their country of residence. They may face greater challenges in learning and adapting to the national language and require culturally sensitive, affordable and accessible assistance. | Special Rapporteur on minority issues | Special Procedures' report |
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