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Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 133 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 63. Where traditional forms of social support have been reduced by migration, globalization and related situations, Governments should work with non- governmental organizations and the private sector to provide assistance and support to older caregivers, especially those providing care for HIV/AIDS orphans, in meeting the needs of their children and grandchildren. |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 31 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 18. 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; |
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Assistance for humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and development for Timor-Leste (2004), para. 20 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 13. Welcomes the commitment and contribution made by the Government of Indonesia and by the international community to the Special Fund established for former employees and pensioners of the Government of Indonesia in Timor-Leste and the progress made by the United Nations Development Programme in disbursing funds from the Special Fund, and encourages the international community to consider increasing its contributions; |
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 40 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Reiterating the urgent need for action to address the adverse effects of climate change on food security, in particular for women, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as well as the other root causes of food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition, |
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The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 25 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (g) To work in cooperation with States, assisting them when requested, in order to foster the implementation of measures that contribute to the promotion and protection of the rights of older persons; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 43 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 30. Acknowledges that universal health coverage implies that all people, including older persons, have access, without discrimination, to nationally determined sets of needed promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative basic health services and essential, safe, affordable, effective and quality medicines, while ensuring that the use of such services does not expose older persons to financial hardship, with a special emphasis on the poor, vulnerable and marginalize d; |
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Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers (2006), para. 12 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 07 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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, |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2008), para. 09 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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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. 08 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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 persons will be greatest and most rapid in the developing world, |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2009), para. 04 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 1. Recognizes the successful conclusion of the first review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 2 and its results at the international, regional and national levels; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 06 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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, |
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Promoting social integration through social inclusion (2018), para. 20 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Reaffirming the importance of ensuring the social integration of older persons and the promotion and protection of their rights, as an integral part of development policies at all levels, and recognizing that older persons can make a significant contribution to sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental, |
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2007), para. 30 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 54 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 15 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2008), para. 12 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1998), para. 04 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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, |
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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 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (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; |
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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 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | (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; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 49 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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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 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 21 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 1. Reaffirms the Political Declaration 1 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002; 2 |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2009), para. 16 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2002), para. 15 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 43 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 30. Calls upon Member States to address the issue of the well-being and adequate health care of older persons, as well as any cases of neglect, abuse and violence against older persons, by designing and implementing more effective prevention strategies and stronger laws and by developing coherent and comprehensive policy frameworks to address these problems and their underlying factors; |
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2010), para. 42 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 28. Also encourages States to pursue efforts to promote the concerns of older persons and persons with disabilities and their organizations in the planning, implementation and evaluation of all development programmes and policies; |
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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. 11 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | Encouraged by the increasing interest of the international community in the promotion and protection of the rights and dignity of older persons in the world under a comprehensive and integral approach, |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 21 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 13. Encourages Governments to continue their efforts to implement the Madrid Plan of Action and to mainstream the concerns of older persons into their policy agendas, bearing in mind the crucial importance of family intergenerational interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development and the realization of all human rights for older persons, and to prevent age discrimination and provide social integration; |
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 05 | Feb 25, 2020 | Paragraph | 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, |
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