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Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019 (2018), para. 161
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- 9. Notes with concern the issues identified in the report of the Board of Auditors regarding the implementation of the Integrated Pension Administration System, requests the Pension Board to address these issues, and looks forward to receiving an update on progress thereon in the context of the next report of the Pension Board;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2015), para. 31
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- 22. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the investments of the Fund and measures taken to increase the diversification of the Fund 2 and the observations of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board as set out in its report;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International financial system and development (2019), para. 11
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- Recognizing that the remaining effects of the world financial and economic crisis have the potential to undermine debt sustainability and progress towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, especially in developing countries, and stressing the need to avoid the recurrence of such crises, including by addressing the lessons learned, improving confidence, sustaining economic growth and promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including young people, older persons and people with disabilities, and by continuing to promote global economic stability and the underlying institutional reforms required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- 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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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 10
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- Deeply concerned that the situation of older persons in many parts of the world has been negatively affected by the world financial and economic crisis,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 (2011), para. 003
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- Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the administrative and financial implications arising from the report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board 1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 36
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- 17. Also encourages Member States to develop and implement long-term care strategies, as well as to conduct research on good practices of care strategies, recognizing and supporting both paid and unpaid care work for the benefit of older persons, in accordance with the World Health Organization global strategy and action plan on ageing and health 2016–2020, 15 and to further promote long-term care as a positive social and economic investment and a source of employment expansion;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (2013), para. 19
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- 1. Endorses the decision of the Commission, as contained in paragraph 85 of its report, to support the recommendation of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board to raise the mandatory age of separation to age 65 years for new staff of member organizations of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, effective no later than 1 January 2014; 2
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources management (2009), para. 144
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- 5. Requests the Secretary-General to include, in future reports on the employment of retirees, analysis on reasons for patterns and trends that emerge from data presented;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Health
- 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. 06
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- Deeply concerned that the situation of older persons in many parts of the world has been negatively affected by the world financial and economic crisis,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Salary and retirement allowance of the Secretary-General and salary and pensionable remuneration of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (2003), para. 4
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- 2. Also concurs with the recommendation of the Advisory Committee concerning the salary and pensionable remuneration of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme contained in paragraph 9 of its report;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (1998), para. 45
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- Noting that the review of the non-pensionable component was carried out by the Working Group established by the Commission with the participation of the representatives of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board and that the Standing Committee of the Pension Board concurred with the Commission's decisions regarding changes to the procedures used for determining it,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2016–2017 (2017), para. 041
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- 16. Recalls paragraph 18 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and in this regard reaffirms that unused contingency funds may be carried over to subsequent years and reallocated as new risks emerge and older risks are retired, consistent with industry best practices, and that all remaining unused contingency funds shall be returned to Member States at the conclusion of the project;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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 added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International financial system and development (2020), para. 11
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- Recognizing that the remaining effects of the world financial and economic crisis have the potential to undermine debt sustainability and progress towards achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals, especially in developing countries, and stressing the need to avoid the recurrence of such crises, including by addressing the lessons learned, improving confidence, sustaining economic growth and promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including young people, older persons and people with disabilities, and by continuing to promote global economic stability and the underlying institutional reforms required to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2009), para. 11
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- 6. Endorses the decision taken by the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board in 2007, in which it reaffirmed its earlier decision maintaining that the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund should determine entitlements to pension benefits, in particular under articles 34 and 35 of the Regulations of the Fund, which cover spousal benefits, in accordance with the personal status of a participant as recognized and reported to the Fund by the participant’s employing organization, on the understanding that the final verification that the personal status has remained the same will be done by the Fund at the time of granting such pension benefits;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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A m e n d m e n t t o a r t i c l e 1 3 o f t h e s t a t u t e o f t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s Administrative Tribunal (1998), para. 11
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- "2. The Tribunal shall be competent to hear and pass judgement upon applications alleging non-observance of the regulations of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund arising out of the decision of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board submitted to the Tribunal by:
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources management (1995), para. 16
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- 5. Expresses its concern about the potential adverse effects of the use of retirees on recruitment and promotion in the Secretariat, and requests the Secretary-General in this regard to submit detailed information to the General Assembly at its resumed forty-ninth session on the practice of the use of retirees in the Secretariat, including information on their effectiveness, number, nationality, gender, fields of work, remuneration, the duration of their contracts and the reasons for their employment;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2007), para. 18
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- Having considered the reviews carried out by the consulting actuary, the Committee of Actuaries and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, as set out in the report of the Board, 1 of various aspects of the pension adjustment system,
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2019), para. 41
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- 22. Also emphasizes the need for effective measures, in the context of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism initiatives, to help to ensure the equal participation of young people and women, persons with disabilities and older persons at all levels and in decision-making processes in all areas and to promote the effective economic empowerment, including through international cooperation, of women, young people, persons with disabilities and older persons in sustainable tourism, including ecotourism activities, mainly through decent job and income creation;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (2019), para. 045
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- 2. Particular attention shall be paid in the implementation of the present Declaration to the rights and special needs of peasants and other people working in rural areas, including older persons, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities, taking into account the need to address multiple forms of discrimination.
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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After-service health insurance (2010), para. 14
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- (g) After-service health insurance plans for retired public sector employees offered by their respective Governments;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Liabilities and proposed funding for after-service health insurance benefits (2007), para. 16
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- (b) The application of a theoretical pension of a minimum of twenty-five years of service as the basis of assessing retiree contributions as opposed to using the actual number of years of service when less than twenty-five;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2007), para. 59
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- 5. Also notes that the Board intends to review the current provisions for special adjustments for small pensions and the current arrangements regarding the periodicity of cost-of-living adjustments at its sessions in 2007 and 2008, respectively;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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. 24
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- 11. Calls upon Member States to promote, in accordance with their national priorities, equitable and affordable access to sustainable basic physical and social infrastructure for all, without discrimination, including affordable serviced land, housing, modern and renewable energy, safe drinking water and sanitation, safe, nutritious and adequate food, waste disposal, sustainable mobility, health care and family planning, education, culture and information and communications technologies, and to ensure that these services are responsive to the rights and needs of older persons, while recognizing that planning for and providing opportunities for making cities inclusive of older persons’ economic and social participation is an important dimension of the construction of sustainable cities;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Water & Sanitation
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources management (2003), para. 114
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- 5. Requests the Secretary-General to make efforts to avoid the increase of the number of underrepresented Member States, by paying due attention to equitable geographical distribution in the recruitment and selection process, bearing in mind the large number of retirees projected;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2013), para. 15
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- 10. Authorizes the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board to increase the normal retirement age to 65 for new participants in the Fund, with effect not later than from 1 January 2014, subject to a decision of the General Assembly on a corresponding increase in the mandatory age of separation;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 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. 11
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- 4. Takes note that the review of the pension benefits of 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 will take place at its sixty-sixth session, including options for defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2019), para. 32
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- 20. Requests the Pension Board to provide further analysis on the impact of the proposed amendments to articles 6 and 48 of the Regulations, Rules and Pension Adjustment System of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund and to report thereon in the context of the next report;
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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