A/RES/72/144
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
48. Requests relevant entities of the United Nations system, including the
United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
(UN-Women), to ensure that the situation of older women is mainstreamed and
incorporated across their work and to support, in accordance with their respective
mandates, the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in
particular its aspects of relevance to older persons, including gender equality and the
empowerment of all women and girls;
49. Invites relevant entities of the United Nations system, including
UN-Women, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations
Population Fund, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Human
Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, the World Food Programme, the International Fund for Agricultural
Development, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and
the World Health Organization, among others, as well as the International
Organization for Migration, to include in reports to their respective governing bodies
relevant information on efforts made by Member States and the international
community on issues of relevance to older persons, including their social inclusion;
50. Notes with appreciation the work of the Open-ended Working Group on
Ageing, 11 and recognizes the positive contributions of Member States, as well as
relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, including relevant
human rights mandate holders and treaty bodies and the regional commissions , as
well as national human rights institutions, intergovernmental and relevant
non-governmental organizations with an interest in the matter and invited panellists,
during the first eight working sessions of the Working Group, and invites Member
States, as well as relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system and
other relevant stakeholders, to continue to make contributions to the work entrusted
to the Working Group, as appropriate;
51. Encourages Member States to continue to contribute to the work of the
Open-ended Working Group, in particular by presenting measures to enhance the
promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons, such as
best practices, lessons learned and possible content for a multilateral leg al instrument,
as appropriate, in order to enable it to fulfil its existing mandate of strengthening the
protection of the human rights of older persons by considering the existing
international framework of the human rights of older persons and identifyin g possible
gaps and how best to address them, including by considering, as appropriate, the
feasibility of further instruments and measures;
52. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to provide all necessary
support to the Open-ended Working Group, within existing resources, for the
organization of its ninth working session, in 2018, and to include the annual sessions
of the Working Group in the Organization’s calendar of conferences and meetings;
53. Invites the Independent Expert to address and engage in an interactive
dialogue with the General Assembly at its seventy-third session under the agenda item
entitled “Social development”;
54. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
seventy-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.
73rd plenary meeting
19 December 2017
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