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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2006), para. 06
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- 1. Calls upon Governments, the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and the non-governmental community to reinforce their advocacy campaigns aimed at informing all major societal actors, including older persons and their organizations, about the decisions taken at the Second World Assembly on Ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2005), para. 29
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- 15. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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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. 06
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- Recognizing that different efforts made to increase cooperation and integration and increasing awareness of and sensitivity to ageing issues since the adoption of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 7 by Governments, relevant bodies of the United Nations system and civil society, including non-governmental organizations and the private sector, have not been sufficient to promote full and effective participation by and opportunities for older persons in economic, social, cultural and political life,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2007), para. 14
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- 8. Recommends that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, 6 take into account the situation of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- 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 (2017), para. 39
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- 26. 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 marginalized;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: addressing the health of the most vulnerable for an inclusive society (2018), para. 49
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- 16. Urges Member States to develop, implement and evaluate policies and programmes that promote healthy and active ageing and the highest attainable standard of health and well-being for older persons, and to develop health care for older persons as part of primary care in the existing national health systems;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2017), para. 129
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- 113. Notes with appreciation the measures taken by the Secretary-General, in accordance with its resolutions, to address, among other things, the issue of the replacement of retiring staff in the language services, and requests the Secretary - General to maintain and intensify those efforts, including the strengthening of cooperation with institutions that train language specialists, in order to meet the needs in the six official languages of the United Nations;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 43
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- 24. Recommends that Member States enhance their capacity to more effectively collect age-disaggregated data, statistics and qualitative information, disaggregated also, when necessary, by other relevant factors, including se x and disability, in order to improve assessment of the situation of older persons, recognizes that the data revolution presents new opportunities and challenges for the use of new data to help with the measurement of progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in particular its aspects of relevance to older persons, and to ensure that no one is left behind, and in this regard recalls the establishment by the Statistical Commission of the Titchfield Group on ageing-related statistics and age-disaggregated data and the consideration of its work;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 29
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- 16. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 13
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- 5. Calls upon all States to enhance their existing mechanisms related to the protection and promotion of human rights for older persons, including by adopting, as appropriate, legal or other dedicated mechanisms;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2015), para. 118
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- 102. Encourages the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to seek additional voluntary contributions for the digitization of important older United Nations documents;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- 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 (2010), para. 22
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- 18. Also encourages the international community to support national efforts to forge stronger partnerships with civil society, including organizations of older persons, academia, research foundations, community-based organizations, including caregivers, and the private sector, in an effort to help to build capacity on ageing issues;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 17
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- 9. Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to organize, in Geneva, an intersessional public consultation on the promotion and protection of the human rights of older persons, with the participation of States Members of the United Nations, relevant international organizations, United Nations agencies and stakeholders, in order to receive information and share good practices on the matter;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 (2016), para. 07
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- 3. Decides to consider the treatment of the accrued liabilities for the after- service health insurance benefits payable to former staff and the accrued liabilities for the pensions of retired judges, and their surviving spouses, of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda under agenda item 146, Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 16
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- 5. Urges Governments to take measures to enable all older women to be engaged actively in all aspects of life, as well as to assume a variety of roles in communities, public life and decision-making, and to develop and implement policies and programmes in cooperation with civil society, including the non- governmental organizations concerned, to ensure their full enjoyment of human rights and quality of life, as well as to address their needs, with a view to contributing to the realization of a society for all ages;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 56
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- 40. Also encourages the international community to support national efforts to forge stronger partnerships with civil society, including organizations of older persons, academia, research foundations, faith-based organizations, community- based organizations, including caregivers, and the private sector, in an effort to help to build capacity on ageing issues;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Measures to enhance the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons (2016), para. 18
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- 1. Recognizes the challenges related to the enjoyment of all human rights that older persons face in areas such as prevention of and protection against violence and abuse, social protection, food and nutrition, housing, employment, legal capacity, access to justice, health services, including physical and mental health support, and long-term and palliative care services, and that those challenges require in-depth analysis and action to better address them;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 09
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- 1. Recognizes the challenges related to the enjoyment of all human rights that older persons face in areas such as prevention and protection against violence and abuse, social protection, food and housing, employment, legal capacity, access to justice, health support, long-term and palliative care, and that those challenges require in-depth analysis and action to address protection gaps;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- 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. 40
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- 32. Recommends that the situation of older persons be taken into account in the ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration 4 and considered in the discussions on the development agenda beyond 2015;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation arising from the recent Israeli military operations in Lebanon (2007), para. 13
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- 4. Emphasizes that attacks against civilians, wherever they may occur, are contrary to international humanitarian law and constitute flagrant violations of human rights, condemns the killing of children, women, the elderly and other civilians in Lebanon, underlines that there should be no impunity for such acts, and calls particularly upon Israel to abide scrupulously by its obligations under human rights law, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4 and international humanitarian law;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 41
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- 25. Encourages Member States to adopt social policies that promote the development of community services for older persons, taking into account the psychological and physical aspects of ageing and the special needs of older women and older persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- 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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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 14
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- Recognizing the essential contribution that older persons can continue to make to the functioning of societies and towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and recognizing also the importance of the full and effective enjoyment of their human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition (2019), para. 22
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- Recognizing the essential contribution that older persons can continue to make to the functioning of societies and towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and concerned that many health systems are not sufficiently prepared to respond to the need for promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, palliative and specialized care,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 51
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- 32. Urges Member States to develop, implement and evaluate policies and programmes that promote healthy and active ageing and the highest attainable standard of health and well-being for older persons and to develop health care for older persons as part of primary care in the existing health systems;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2015), para. 19
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- 13. Approves the technical changes in the Regulations of the Fund, as set out in annex XI to the report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, in accordance with past decisions and amendments adopted by the Board and the General Assembly;
- Topic(s)
- 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 (2013), para. 16
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- 8. Recommends that Member States increase efforts to raise awareness of the Madrid Plan of Action, including by promoting and supporting initiatives to advance a positive public image of older persons and their multiple contributions to their families, communities and societies, working with the regional commissions and enlisting the help of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat in seeking increased attention for ageing issues;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2019), para. 41
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- (b) To further strengthen communication and transparency with member organizations and their staff pension committees;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1998), para. 03
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- Recalling also its resolution 40/30 of 29 November 1985, in which it expressed its conviction that older persons must be considered an important and necessary element in the development process at all levels within a given society,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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