Towards a comprehensive and integral international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons A/RES/67/139 the fields of social development, human rights and non-discrimination, as well as gender equality and the empowerment of women, and taking into account the inputs of the Human Rights Council, the reports of the Working Group and the recommendations of the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on the Status of Women, as well as the contributions from the second global review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002,7 to be held during the fifty-first session of the Commission for Social Development; 2. Requests the Working Group to present to the General Assembly, at the earliest possible date, a proposal containing, inter alia, the main elements that should be included in an international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons, which are not currently addressed sufficiently by existing mechanisms and therefore require further international protection; Invites States and relevant bodies and organizations of the United 3. Nations system, including relevant human rights mandate holders and treaty bodies and the regional commissions, as well as intergovernmental organizations with an interest in the matter, to make contributions to the work entrusted to the Working Group, as set out in paragraph 1 above, and invites relevant non-governmental organizations to contribute, as appropriate, on the basis of the modalities for participation agreed by the Working Group; 9 4. Requests the Secretary-General, with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), to submit to the Working Group by its fourth session and from within existing resources a compilation of existing international legal instruments, documents and programmes that directly or indirectly address the situation of older persons, including those of conferences, summits, meetings or international or regional seminars convened by the United Nations and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations; Also requests the Secretary-General to provide the Working Group with 5. the facilities necessary for the performance of the work entrusted to it in the present resolution; Further requests the Secretary-General to include in the report to the 6. General Assembly at its sixty-eighth session under the sub-item entitled “Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing” of the item entitled “Social development” comprehensive information on the implementation of the present resolution. 60th plenary meeting 20 December 2012 _______________ 9 A/AC.278/2011/2, sect. F. 3/3