A/RES/73/143
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
8.
Invites Member States to continue to share their national experiences in
developing and implementing policies and programmes aimed at strengthening the
promotion and protection of the human rights of older persons, including within the
framework of the Open-ended Working Group;
9.
Encourages Governments to actively address, through national, regional
and international efforts, issues that affect older persons and to e nsure that the social
integration of older persons and the promotion and protection of their rights form an
integral part of development policies at all levels;
10. Encourages Member States to adopt and implement non-discriminatory
policies, legislation and regulations, to systematically review and amend these, where
appropriate, if they discriminate against older persons, especially on the basis of age,
and to take appropriate measures to prevent discrimination against older persons in,
inter alia, employment, social protection and the provision of social, health-care and
long-term care services;
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
services 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;
12. Encourages Member States to take into account the multidimensional
nature of the vulnerability of older persons to p overty and economic insecurity,
including through the promotion of good health, care and well -being, in their
implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at the national level;
13. Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to
eradicate poverty among older persons, in particular older women and older persons
with disabilities, by mainstreaming ageing issues into poverty eradication measures,
women’s empowerment strategies and national development plans, and to include
both ageing-specific policies and ageing-mainstreaming efforts in their national
strategies;
14. Encourages Member States to consider expanding, in accordance with
domestic legislation and policies, the reach of sustainable pension schemes, including
but not limited to strategies such as social pensions, and increasing their benefits,
with a view to ensuring income security in old age;
15. Also encourages Member States to develop and implement long-term care
strategies and 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, 8 and to further promote long-term care as a positive
social and economic investment and a source of employment expansion;
16. Further encourages Member States to promote terms and conditions of
care work guided by International Labour Organization standards for all care workers,
including but not limited to migrants, and to adopt measures to tackle the gender and
age stereotypes for care work;
17. Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national
capacities to address their national implementation priorities identified during the
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