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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 46
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- 30. 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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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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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 04
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- Recalling further its resolution 53/109 of 9 December 1998 and previous resolutions on ageing and the International Year of Older Persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Midterm comprehensive review of the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015 (2010), para. 15
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- 7. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous people and other local communities, in the implementation of the Decade at all levels, including its midterm comprehensive review;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 16
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- Recognizing that the prevalence of disabilities increases with age and that many older persons live with a disability,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 34
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- 21. Recommends that Member States enhance their capacity to more effectively collect data, statistics and qualitative information, disaggregated when necessary by relevant factors, including sex and disability, in order to improve assessment of the situation of older persons, and 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2011), para. 04
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- 1. Takes note of the report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board for 2010, 1 in particular the actions taken by the Board as set out in chapter II.B of the report;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Managing after-service health insurance liabilities (2014), para. 9
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- 5. Requests the Secretary-General to undertake a survey of current health- care plans for active and retired staff within the United Nations system, to explore all options to increase efficiency and contain costs and to report thereon at its seventieth session.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 57
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- 41. Encourages the international community and the relevant agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing, as appropriate, in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information with regard to a gender perspective on ageing, as well as to include indicators that provide an evidence base for the equitable delivery and effective monitoring of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the New Urban Agenda 11 and national policymaking, as well as to gain a better understanding of how to promote ageing in a way that is not adversely affected by rapid urbanization and gentrification;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2018), para. 34
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- (vi) Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to food insecurity, severe hunger, malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2014), para. 111
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- 94. 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
Paragraph
Multilingualism (2015), para. 52
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- 38. Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to complete the task of uploading all important older United Nations documents to the United Nations website in all six official languages on a priority basis so that those archives are also made available to Member States through that medium;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 11
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- 3. Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to eradicate poverty among older persons, in particular older women, by mainstreaming ageing issues into poverty eradication strategies and national development plans, and to include both ageing-specific policies and ageing-mainstreaming efforts in their national strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 23
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- 3. Encourages Member States to address the situation of older persons in their voluntary national reviews presented at the high-level political forum on sustainable development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Policies and programmes involving youth (2018), para. 36
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- 20. Further recognizes the importance of strengthening intergenerational partnerships and solidarity among generations, and in this regard recognizes the importance of opportunities for voluntary, constructive and regular interaction between young people and older generations in the family, the workplace and society at large;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Youth
- 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
Paragraph
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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 12
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- 4. Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national capacity to address their national implementation priorities identified during the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action, and invites Member States that have not done so to consider a step-by-step approach to developing capacity that includes the setting of national priorities, the strengthening of institutional mechanisms, research, data collection and analysis and the training of necessary personnel in the field of ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2003), para. 17
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- 13. Welcomes the initiatives of the regional commissions to review the objectives and recommendations of the Madrid Plan of Action, with a view of translating it into regional plans of action, and to assist national institutions, upon request, in implementing and monitoring their actions on ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2020), para. 043
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- 9. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, quality education for all and health care, eliminate discrimination, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly young people, older persons and persons with disabilities, noting the role of sports in this regard, and address the challenges posed to social development by globalization and market-driven reforms in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 33
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- 25. Encourages the international community, including international and bilateral donors, to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable and adequate social and economic support for older persons, while bearing in mind that countries have the primary responsibility for their own economic and social development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2004), para. 09
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- 2. Also takes note of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, contained in the report of the Secretary-General;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 18
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- 4. 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 19
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- 15. Calls upon Member States to develop their national capacity for monitoring and enforcing the rights of older persons, in consultation with all sectors of society, including organizations of older persons through, inter alia, national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights where applicable;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 11
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- Emphasizing that Governments bear the primary responsibility for creating an enabling environment for the economic and social development of their citizens, and noting with appreciation the valuable contributions of civil society, including non- governmental organizations, in calling attention to the specific needs of older women,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2020), para. 022
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- Noting with concern that women, persons with disabilities, older persons, children and youth are often disproportionately affected in natural disasters, and stressing the need to ensure that their specific needs are identified and addressed in emergency preparedness and response,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 42
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- 23. Recommends that Governments be inclusive in involving older persons and their organizations in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of policies and programmes that affect them, including through simple consultative mechanisms to co-research or co-design such policies and programmes with or by older persons and to take due account of involving those who experience multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and are particularly vulnerable to high incidences of poverty and social exclusion;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2001), para. 06
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- Reiterating that the Second World Assembly on Ageing should give particular attention, inter alia, to linkages between ageing and development, with particular attention to the needs, priorities and perspectives of developing countries,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 26
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- 22. Encourages the international community and the relevant agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on gender and ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 33
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- 21. Recognizes the importance of strengthening intergenerational partnerships and solidarity among generations, and in this regard calls upon Member States to promote opportunities for voluntary, constructive and regular interaction between young people and older generations in the family, the workplace and society at large;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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
Paragraph
Pattern of conferences (2017), para. 129
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- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 29
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- Paragraph text
- 16. Invites Member States to identify key priority areas for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, including empowering older persons and promoting their rights, raising awareness of ageing issues and building national capacities to address ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Global health and foreign policy: addressing the health of the most vulnerable for an inclusive society (2018), para. 16
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- Recognizing also the essential contribution that older persons can continue to make to the functioning of societies and towards the implementation of the 2030 Agenda if adequate guarantees are in place, and concerned that many health systems are not sufficiently prepared to respond to the needs of the rapidly ageing population, including the need for promotive, preventive, curative, 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 (2010), para. 19
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- 15. Calls upon Member States to take concrete measures to further protect and assist older persons in emergency situations, in accordance with the Madrid Plan of Action;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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
Paragraph
Improvement of the situation of women and girls in rural areas (2020), para. 26
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- (f) Promoting consultation with and the participation of rural women and, as appropriate, girls, including those who are indigenous, those with disabilities and older women, through their organizations and networks, in the design, development and implementation of and follow-up to programmes and strategies for gender equality, the empowerment of women and rural development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 24
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- Paragraph text
- 20. Encourages the international community to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable social and economic support for older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2014), para. 55
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- Paragraph text
- 36. 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
Paragraph
New Urban Agenda (2017), para. 088
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- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
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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- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2006), para. 13
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- Paragraph text
- 8. Invites the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council to integrate the issues of population and individual ageing into their work in order to promote implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2010), para. 14
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- Paragraph text
- 10. Invites Member States to ensure that older persons have access to information about their rights so as to enable them to participate fully and justly in their societies and to claim full enjoyment of all human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 29
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- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Pattern of conferences (2015), para. 115
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- Paragraph text
- 99. Welcomes the efforts of the Secretariat on the digitization of important older United Nations documents, and requests the Secretary-General to propose ways to accelerate the implementation of this work and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventieth session;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004), para. 54
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- (d) Judges who have served a term of four years and who retire in 1999 or 2000 shall receive an increase in their pension as follows. As noted above, judges retiring in 1999 shall receive an annual pension of 26,500 dollars. Their annual pension shall be increased to 31,000 dollars in 2000 and to 35,500 dollars in 2001. Judges retiring in 2000 shall receive an annual pension of 31,000 dollars. The pension shall be increased to 35,500 dollars in 2001;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 13
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- Paragraph text
- 1. Reaffirms the Political Declaration 1 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002; 2
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 52
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- Paragraph text
- 40. Recommends that Member States reaffirm the role of United Nations focal points on ageing, increase technical cooperation efforts, expand the role of the regional commissions on ageing issues, continue to provide resources for those efforts, facilitate the coordination of national and international non-governmental organizations on ageing and enhance cooperation with academia on a research agenda on ageing;
- Topic(s)
- 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 (2020), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned about the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that may create additional vulnerabilities for older persons and affect their enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and recognizing that, in particular, older women often face multiple forms of discrimination resulting from gender inequality and are at greater risk of physical and psychological abuse and violence,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 49
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 36. 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
Paragraph
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2014), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Condemns the continuing unilateral application and enforcement by certain Powers of unilateral coercive measures, and rejects those measures, with all their extraterritorial effects, as being tools for political or economic pressure against any country, in particular against developing countries, adopted with a view to preventing those countries from exercising their right to decide, of their own free will, their own political, economic and social systems, and because of the negative effects of those measures on the realization of all the human rights of vast sectors of their populations, in particular children, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 8. Calls upon Governments and the United Nations system to ensure that the needs, perspectives and experiences of older women are reflected in all development policies and programmes;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Encourages all States to raise awareness of the challenges facing the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, and to ensure that older persons receive information about those rights;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Pattern of conferences (2015), para. 112
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 96. Requests the Secretary-General to complete the task of uploading all important older United Nations documents onto the United Nations website in all six official languages on a priority basis so that these archives will also be available to Member States through that medium;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Stresses that families remain the first and most immediate environment where older persons can develop their potential and enjoy a fulfilling life, and that the realization of the human rights of older persons can be deeply affected by the quality of life and the support and assistance provided to them, including through access to a range of support services that are responsive to individual choices, wishes and needs;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Urges Governments and regional and international organizations, including the United Nations system in cooperation with civil society, including non-governmental organizations, where appropriate, to promote programmes for healthy active ageing that stress the independence, equality, participation and security of older women and to undertake gender-specific research and programmes to address their needs;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2020), para. 06
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the particular vulnerability of women and children, as well as older persons and persons with disabilities, among refugees and displaced persons, including exposure to discrimination, sexual exploitation and abuse, physical abuse, violence and exploitation and the recruitment and use of children by parties to armed conflict in violation of applicable international law, and in this regard acknowledging the importance of preventing, responding to and addressing sexual and gender-based violence as well as violations and abuses committed against refugee, returnee and displaced children,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 48
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 35. Encourages the international community, including international and bilateral donors, to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable and adequate social and economic support for older persons, while bearing in mind that countries have the primary responsibility for their own economic and social development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 44
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 28. Also calls upon Member States to strengthen and incorporate a gender and disability perspective into all policy actions on ageing, as well as to address and eliminate discrimination on the basis of age, sex or disability, and recommends that Member States engage with all sectors of society, in particular with relevant organizations with an interest in the matter, including organizations of older persons, women and persons with disabilities, in changing negative stereotypes about older persons, in particular older women and older persons with disabilities, and promote positive images of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (2018), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Acknowledge the impact of non-communicable diseases on older persons, which is of particular concern, given the growing proportion of older persons and recognizing that they have an increased risk of multiple non-communicable diseases, which constitutes a major challenge for health systems;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (f) To engage in dialogue and to consult with States and other relevant stakeholders, including United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, regional human rights mechanisms, national human rights institutions, older persons, civil society organizations and academic institutions;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2000), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Bearing in mind that, under its resolution 54/24, the General Assembly has entrusted the Commission for Social Development with the revision of the International Plan of Action on Ageing and the elaboration of a long-term strategy on ageing,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
International Year of Volunteers (2001), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Invites States to consider all means available for more people to become involved in voluntary action and to be drawn from a broader cross-section of society, especially from groups, including young people, older people and people with disabilities, in view of the benefits accruing to volunteers through volunteer action;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, and stresses the importance of close coordination between the work of the Independent Expert and the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing established by the General Assembly in paragraph 28 of its resolution 65/182 , while avoiding unnecessary duplication of their respective mandates and those of other special procedures and subsidiary organs of the Human Rights Council, and relevant United Nations bodies and treaty bodies;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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, and noting with concern the high incidence of poverty among them,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 (1999), para. 29
- Paragraph text
- 25. Notes that by its resolution 53/214 of 18 December 1998, the General Assembly has approved revised emoluments and other conditions of service, including the pension entitlement, for members of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Tribunal for Rwanda, as recommended by the Advisory Committee, resulting in additional requirements of 147,300 United States dollars net for the International 8
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Decides to entrust the Commission for Social Development with the revision of the International Plan of Action on Ageing and the elaboration of a long-term strategy on ageing, based on new developments since 1982 and on the experience of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999, with a view to the adoption of a revised plan of action and of a long-term strategy on ageing in 2002;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1996), para. 16
- Paragraph text
- 12. Invites the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to continue its work on ageing and the situation of older persons, as described in its reports; 2/
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2010–2011 (2011), para. 003
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1998), para. 26
- Paragraph text
- 18. Welcomes the initiative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the American Association of Retired Persons to collaborate on a worldwide poster competition for the Year, in which artists will portray their vision of "A society for all ages";
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 56
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Recommends that States parties to existing international human rights instruments address the situation of older persons, where appropriate, more explicitly in their reports, and encourages treaty body monitoring mechanisms and special procedures mandate holders, in accordance with their mandates, to pay more attention to the situation of older persons in their dialogue with Member States, in their consideration of the reports or in their country missions;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations (1995), para. 42
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- - Ensure that the rights of persons who can be particularly vulnerable to abuse or neglect, including youth, persons with disabilities, the elderly and migrant workers, are protected;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 (2016), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2004), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Emphasizes the importance of protecting and promoting the human rights of older persons, and urges States to integrate the promotion of and respect for the human rights of older persons into their respective national development frameworks, taking into account those marginalized and in the most vulnerable situations, to ensure that no one is left behind and that those furthest behind are reached first;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations pension system (2019), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Requests the Pension Board to ensure that the development of an electronic signature verification system to facilitate the certificate of entitlement process will be implemented expeditiously, in compliance with the relevant regulations and rules, notably the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations 7 and the Procurement Manual;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (1998), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Endorses the modifications decided on by the Commission regarding the various aspects of the non-pensionable component and transitional measures as outlined in paragraph 139 of its report; 6
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2008), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 19. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the challenges posed by globalization and market-driven reforms to social development in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 36
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Stresses the importance of mainstreaming a gender perspective, taking into account the needs of older women, in policy and planning processes at all levels;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Invites Governments and the United Nations system to give attention to the situation of older women in the context of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, to be held at Madrid in April 2002, including the integration of a gender perspective into the outcome document.
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 and stressing the need to ensure that issues of relevance to older persons are taken into account in its implementation in order to ensure that no one is left behind, including older persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (2013), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Improving global road safety (2018), para. 34
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Welcomes the adoption by the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) of the New Urban Agenda, 6 which, taking into account that the majority of road traffic deaths and injuries take place in urban areas, gives appropriate consideration to road safety and access to safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable public transport and non-motorized modes of transport, paying special attention to the needs of those in vulnerable situations, women, children, persons with disabilities and older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2009), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Encourages the international community and the relevant agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on gender and ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national capacities to address their national implementation priorities identified during the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action by considering and devising strategies that take into account the entirety of the human life course and foster intergenerational solidarity, the strengthening of institutional mechanisms, research, data collection and analysis and the training of necessary personnel in the field of ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human resources management (2009), para. 144
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Measures to enhance the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons (2016), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging the efforts of States to determine the best way to strengthen the protection of the human rights of older persons, considering the various proposals that have been made within the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, including the possible elaboration of a multilateral legal instrument on the rights of older persons,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Draft outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants (2016), para. 068
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 58. We strongly encourage cooperation among countries of origin or nationality, countries of transit, countries of destination and other relevant countries in ensuring that migrants who do not have permission to stay in the country of destination can return, in accordance with international obligations of all States, to their country of origin or nationality in a safe, orderly and dignified manner, preferably on a voluntary basis, taking into account national legislation in line with international law. We note that cooperation on return and readmission forms an important element of international cooperation on migration. Such cooperation would include ensuring proper identification and the provision of relevant travel documents. Any type of return, whether voluntary or otherwise, must be consistent with our obligations under international human rights law and in compliance with the principle of non-refoulement. It should also respect the rules of international law and must in addition be conducted in keeping with the best interests of children and with d ue process. While recognizing that they apply only to States that have entered into them, we acknowledge that existing readmission agreements should be fully implemented. We support enhanced reception and reintegration assistance for those who are returned. Particular attention should be paid to the needs of migrants in vulnerable situations who return, such as children, older persons, persons with disabilities and victims of trafficking.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Notes with appreciation multilateral, regional and subregional initiatives aimed at the promotion and protection of rights of older persons, including discussions on possible normative standards;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 51
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 35. Calls upon Member States to address the issue of the well-being of and adequate health-care services for older persons, as well as any cases of neglect, abuse and violence against older persons, in particular older women, by designing and implementing more effective prevention strategies and stronger laws and by developing coherent and comprehensive policy frameworks to address these problems and their underlying factors;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 46
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 34. Also encourages Member States to adopt and enforce guidelines that establish standards for the provision of long-term support and assistance to older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2020), para. 39
- Paragraph text
- (vii) Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to food insecurity, severe hunger, malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights (2018), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the work, and taking note with appreciation of the reports, 1 of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, whose mandate includes, inter alia, conducting, facilitating and supporting the provision of advisory services, technical assistance, capacity-building and international cooperation in support of national efforts for the effective realization of the rights of older persons, and acknowledging the work of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (2016), para. 113
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) Use the registration process to identify specific assistance needs and protection arrangements, where possible, including but not exclusively for refugees with special protection concerns, such as women at risk, children, especially unaccompanied children and children separated from their families, child-headed and single-parent households, victims of trafficking, victims of trauma and survivors of sexual violence, as well as refugees with disabilities and older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Missing persons (2019), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Bearing in mind that the question of missing persons entails consequences not only for the victims themselves, but also for their families, especially women, children and older persons, and in this regard recognizing the importance of addressing the legal situation of missing persons in connection with armed conflict and supporting their family members through national policies that include a gender perspective, as appropriate,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Conditions of service of the ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2010), para. 16
- Paragraph text
- 5. Decides that the matter of the difference in pension rights between ad litem judges and permanent judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia shall be resolved as a priority of the General Assembly at the main part of its sixty-fifth session;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Promoting social integration through social inclusion (2018), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Stresses the importance of promoting inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all, especially for older persons and persons with disabilities, and of skills development and quality training, as essential means for inclusive participation and integration in society;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 16. Encourages Governments that have not done so to designate focal points for handling the follow-up of domestic 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
Paragraph
Impact of arms transfers on human rights (2016), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Expresses its deep concern at the fact that arms transfers, particularly those that are illicit or unregulated, may seriously undermine the human rights of individuals, especially women, children, the elderly, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights and unilateral coercive measures (2015), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Condemns the continuing unilateral application and enforcement by certain Powers of unilateral coercive measures, and rejects those measures, with all their extraterritorial effects, as being tools for political or economic pressure against any country, in particular against developing countries, adopted with a view to preventing those countries from exercising their right to decide, of their own free will, their own political, economic and social systems, and because of the negative effects of those measures on the realization of all the human rights of vast sectors of their populations, in particular children, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2006), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Invites Member States and the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to take into account the needs and concerns of older persons in decision-making at all levels;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Encourages Member States to take into account the multidimensional nature of the vulnerability of older persons to poverty 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Integration of older women in development (1995), para. 02
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 44/76 of 8 December 1989, in which it pointed out that age segregation, in addition to sex stereotyping, makes the social and economic problems of elderly women even more acute, and that they are often viewed only as beneficiaries and not as contributors to development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2000), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) Linkages between ageing and development, with particular attention to the needs and perspectives of developing countries;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2000), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) Measures to mainstream ageing within the context of current global development agendas;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2004), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 8. Requests the Commission for Social Development to integrate an ageing perspective in its consideration of priority themes related to the follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations pension system (2007), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Concurs, in accordance with article 13 of the Regulations of the Fund and with a view to securing continuity of pension rights, with the following:
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (2010), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Expresses particular concern at the grave problems faced by many internally displaced women and children, including violence and abuse, sexual and labour exploitation, trafficking in persons, forced recruitment and abduction, and notes the need to continue to pay more systematic and in-depth attention to their special assistance, protection and development needs, as well as those of other groups with special needs, such as older persons, persons with disabilities and severely traumatized individuals affected by internal displacement, taking into account the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance to refugees, returnees and displaced persons in Africa (2004), para. 56
- Paragraph text
- 34. Calls upon States and the Office of the High Commissioner to make renewed efforts to ensure that the rights, needs and dignity of elderly refugees are fully respected and addressed through appropriate programme activities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The right to education: follow-up to Human Rights Council resolution 8/4 (2017), para. 35
- Paragraph text
- 13. Calls upon States to take all necessary measures, including sufficient budgetary allocations, to ensure inclusive, equitable and non-discriminatory quality education, and to promote learning opportunities for all, paying particular attention to girls, marginalized children, older persons, persons with disabilities and persons with low qualifications;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: accessibility (2020), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Recommends that Member States take into account the needs and requirements of older persons with disabilities in national development plans and national policies, including through the collection of data disaggregated by sex, age and disability, and encourage communities to develop targeted services for older persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Pattern of conferences (2019), para. 130
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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 strengthen ing 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Invites Member States to identify key priority areas for implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, including empowering older persons and promoting their rights, raising awareness of ageing issues and building national capacity to address ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2009), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Recommends that Member States increase awareness-raising of the Madrid Plan of Action, including by strengthening networks of national focal points on ageing, working with the regional commissions and enlisting the help of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat to expand media coverage on ageing issues;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights (2018), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing also that consultation with and the meaningful and effective participation of older persons and their organizations are essential in the formulation and adoption of legislation and policies, in particular those relating to their specific needs and concerns,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2018), para. 44
- Paragraph text
- 5. Expresses its very deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the country, which could rapidly deteriorate owing to limited resilience to natural disasters and to government policies causing limitations in the availability of and access to adequate food, compounded by structural weaknesses in agricultural production resulting in significant shortages of diversified food and the State restrictions on the cultivation of and trade in foodstuffs, as well as the prevalence of chronic and acute malnutrition, particularly among the most vulnerable groups, pregnant and lactating women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners, and urges the Government of the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea, in this regard, to take preventive and remedial action, cooperating with international donor agencies and in accordance with international standards for monitoring humanitarian assistance;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 29
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2015), para. 59
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 35. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, eliminate discrimination, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly young people, older persons and persons with disabilities and address the challenges posed to social development by globalization and market driven reforms in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Global health and foreign policy: a healthier world through better nutrition (2019), para. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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 (2017), para. 35
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 22. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Recalls the need to combat the various forms of violence against older persons, a widespread phenomenon that includes discrimination in the public sphere, linguistic and employment discrimination, lack of access, isolation, neglect, financial exploitation, physical and psychological violence and the withholding of basic needs, and physical attacks;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 55
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 36. Encourages Member States to provide services and support to older persons, including grandparents, who have assumed responsibility for children who were abandoned or whose parents are deceased, have migrated, have been displaced, including in the context of humanitarian emergencies, or are otherwise unable to care for their dependants;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Measures to enhance the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons (2016), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that the current approach at the international level regarding the promotion and protection of the rights and dignity of older persons may lead, on some occasions, to gaps in reporting on, and monitoring of, existing treaty obligations towards older persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Also recognizes the challenges related to the enjoyment of all human rights that older persons face in different areas and that those challenges require in-depth analysis and action to address protection gaps, and calls upon all States to promote and ensure the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for older persons, including by progressively taking measures to combat age discrimination, neglect, abuse and violence, to provide social protection, access to food and housing, health care, employment, legal capacity and access to justice and to address issues related to social integration and gender inequality, bearing in mind the crucial importance of intergenerational family interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Preparations for and organization of the 2006 follow-up meeting on the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation of the Declaration of Commitmenton HIV/AIDS (2006), para. 25
- Paragraph text
- 12. Requests that the secretariat of the Joint Programme and its co-sponsors assist in facilitating inclusive, country-driven processes, including consultations with relevant stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations, civil society and the private sector, within existing national AIDS strategies, for scaling up HIV prevention, treatment, care and support with the aim of coming as close as possible to the goal of universal access to treatment by 2010 for all those who need it, including through increased resources, and working towards the elimination of stigma and discrimination, enhanced access to affordable medicines and the reduction of vulnerability of persons affected by HIV/AIDS and other health issues, in particular orphaned and vulnerable children and older persons; also requests, consistent with the timetable for the submission of the report of the Secretary- General, that the Joint Programme submit for the consideration of the review and the high-level meeting an assessment of these processes, based on inputs received from Member States, including an analysis of common obstacles to scaling up and recommendations for addressing such obstacles, as well as accelerated and expanded action;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Integrating volunteering into peace and development: the plan of action for the next decade and beyond (2016), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Encourages Governments, in partnership with United Nations entities, volunteer-involving organizations, the private sector, civil society, including academia, and other stakeholders, to integrate volunteerism into national development strategies, plans and policies, United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks and “One United Nations” plans, and also encourages the meaningful participation and integration of volunteers into progra mmes and projects through the provision of adequate means for volunteer action to promote the inclusion of all people, including youth, older persons, women, migrants, refugees, persons with disabilities, minorities and other marginalized groups, to levera ge the full potential of volunteerism;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Further recognizes that older women face a greater risk of physical and psychological abuse due to discriminatory societal attitudes and the non-realization of their human rights, and that some harmful traditional and customary practices result in abuse and violence directed at older women, often exacerbated by poverty and lack of access to legal protection;
- Topic(s)
- Harmful Practices
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2019), para. 45
- Paragraph text
- 5. Expresses its very deep concern at the precarious humanitarian situation in the country, which could rapidly deteriorate owing to limited resilience to natural disasters and to government policies causing limitations in the availability of and access to adequate food, compounded by structural weaknesses in agricultural production resulting in significant shortages of diversified food and the State restrictions on the cultivation of and trade in foodstuffs, as well as the prevalence of chronic and acute malnutrition, particularly among the most vulnerable groups, pregnant and lactating women, children, persons with disabilities, older perso ns and political prisoners, and urges the Government of the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea, in this regard, to take preventive and remedial action, cooperating with international donor agencies and in accordance with international standards for monitoring humanitarian assistance;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Encourages Governments that have not done so to designate focal points for handling 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 53
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 40. Reiterates the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in order to promote and facilitate further implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, as well as the results of its review and appraisal cycle, and in this regard encourages Governments to support the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing so as to enable the Department of Economic and Social Affairs to provide expanded assistance to countries, upon their request;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2010), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Encourages the international community to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable social and economic support for older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2000), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Decides to convene the Second World Assembly on Ageing in 2002, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the first World Assembly on Ageing held at Vienna, to be devoted to the overall review of the outcome of the first World Assembly, as well as to the adoption of a revised plan of action and a long-term strategy on ageing, encompassing its periodic reviews, in the context of a society for all ages;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Encourages Governments to continue their efforts to implement the Madrid Plan of Action and to mainstream the concerns of older persons into their policy agendas, bearing in mind the crucial importance of intergenerational family interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development and the realization of all human rights for older persons, and to prevent age discrimination and provide social integration;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling resolution 37/2 adopted by the Commission for Social Development at its thirty-seventh session, 4 in which the Commission requested the Secretary-General to solicit the views of States, non- governmental organizations and the private sector on updating the International Plan of Action on Ageing and on the desirability and feasibility of convening a review of the outcome of the World Assembly on Ageing in 2002, including the interrelationship of ageing and development,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2000), para. 02
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the World Assembly on Ageing, held at Vienna in 1982, which adopted the International Plan of Action on Ageing, 1
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Also recognizes that neglect, abuse and violence against older persons takes many forms – physical, psychological, emotional, financial – and occurs in every social, economic, ethnic and geographic sphere, including within the family, and calls upon States to, inter alia, enact legislation and strengthen legal efforts to eliminate elder abuse; and educate and sensitize professionals and the general public on violence and abuse of older persons, its various characteristics and causes, and protection of and respect for their human rights and needs;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2008), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity to eradicate poverty among older persons, particularly older women, by mainstreaming ageing issues into poverty eradication strategies and national development plans, and to include both ageing-specific policies and ageing-mainstreaming efforts in their review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002 2 0H and in their national strategies;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2010), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Calls upon Member States to develop their national capacity for monitoring and enforcing the rights of older persons, in consultation with all sectors of society, including organizations of older persons through, inter alia, national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights where applicable;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations common system: report of the International Civil Service Commission (1998), para. 45
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2007), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Encourages the international community to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on gender and ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Also taking note that these population estimates and projections provide, for the first time, detailed information on the oldest of the old, which shows that the proportion of those who are eighty years of age or older will increase in all countries of the world, and illustrates two phenomena: the older the age group, the faster it grows, and the higher the proportion of older women,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2019), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Commends all volunteers globally – formal, informal, community, national, international, online, youth and older volunteers – for their contributions to the delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2006), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Calls upon Governments to consult and utilize the Research Agenda on Ageing for the Twenty-First Century, adopted by the Valencia Forum in April 2002, as a tool for strengthening national capacity on ageing for the implementation, review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action;
- Topic(s)
- 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 (2018), para. 62
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Women
- 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. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Encourages Governments to actively address, through national, regional and international efforts, issues that affect older persons and to ensure that the social integration of older persons and the promotion and protection of their human rights form an integral part of development policies at all levels;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- 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 (2013), para. 32
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 24. Recommends that Governments involve older persons and their organizations in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of policies and programmes that affect them;
- 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 (2019), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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, and noting with concern the high incidence of poverty among them, particularly older single women,
- Topic(s)
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Pattern of conferences (2014), para. 093
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 77. Requests the Secretary-General to complete the task of uploading all important older United Nations documents onto the United Nations website in all six official languages on a priority basis so that these archives will also be available to Member States through that medium;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Takes note of the report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, held at Madrid from 8 to 12 April 2002, 4 and the report of the Secretary-General on the follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, 5 and calls for efforts to implement the global action plan aimed at meeting the challenges of the world’s ageing population, in particular with regard to older women;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2000), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) Measures to strengthen the solidarity between generations, keeping in mind the needs of both older and younger generations;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 52
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 36. Also calls upon Member States to take concrete measures to further protect and assist older persons in emergency situations, in accordance with the Madrid Plan of Action and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030; 10
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2007), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (b) The new Agreement on the transfer of pension rights of participants in the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund and of participants in the Coordinated Organizations, as set out in section B of annex IX to the report of the Board, 1 which will take effect from 1 January 2007;
- 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 (2005), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Requests the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to continue to strengthen the capacity of the focal points on ageing and to provide them with adequate resources for the further implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, in particular through appropriate mainstreaming action;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, 2021 (2020), para. 16
- Paragraph text
- Highlighting that the creative economy encourages creativity and innovation in attaining inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth and development, while facilitating life transitions and supporting women, youth, migrants and older persons, as well as empowering people in vulnerable situations,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 24. Recommends that Member States reaffirm the role of United Nations focal points on ageing, increase technical cooperation efforts, expand the role of the regional commissions on ageing issues and provide added resources for those efforts, facilitate the coordination of national and international non-governmental organizations on ageing and enhance cooperation with academia on a research agenda on ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2016–2017 (2017), para. 041
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2001), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming also that the revised plan of action and the long-term strategy on ageing will contain realistic financial recommendations for implementation,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Political declaration of the high-level meeting on universal health coverage (2019), para. 43
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 30. Scale up efforts to promote healthy and active ageing, maintain and improve quality of life of older persons and to respond to the needs of the rapidly ageing population, especially the need for promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care as well as specialized care and the sustainable provision of long-term care, taking into account national contexts and priorities;
- 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 (2015), para. 42
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 29. Urges Member States to strengthen intersectoral policy frameworks and institutional mechanisms, as appropriate, for the integrated management of the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, including health promotion, health care and social welfare services, in order to address the needs of older persons;
- 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. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 19. Encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national capacities to address their national implementation priorities identified during the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action by considering and devising strategies that take into account the entirety of the human life course and foster intergenerational solidarity, the strengthening of institutional mechanisms, research, data collection and analysis and the training of necessary personnel in the field of ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International cooperation on humanitarian assistance in the field of natural disasters, from relief to development (2019), para. 020
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting with concern that women, persons with disabilities, older persons, children and youth are disproportionately affected in natural disasters,
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth: youth in the global economy – promoting youth participation in social and economic development (2008), para. 133
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 63. Where traditional forms of social support have been reduced by migration, globalization and related situations, Governments should work with non- governmental organizations and the private sector to provide assistance and support to older caregivers, especially those providing care for HIV/AIDS orphans, in meeting the needs of their children and grandchildren.
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. 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;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Assistance for humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and development for Timor-Leste (2004), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Welcomes the commitment and contribution made by the Government of Indonesia and by the international community to the Special Fund established for former employees and pensioners of the Government of Indonesia in Timor-Leste and the progress made by the United Nations Development Programme in disbursing funds from the Special Fund, and encourages the international community to consider increasing its contributions;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2019), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reiterating the urgent need for action to address the adverse effects of climate change on food security, in particular for women, youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, as well as the other root causes of food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (g) To work in cooperation with States, assisting them when requested, in order to foster the implementation of measures that contribute to the promotion and protection of the rights of older persons;
- 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. 43
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 30. 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 marginalize d;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers (2006), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- 5. Reaffirms the need to recognize and promote all forms of volunteerism as an issue that involves and benefits all segments of society, including children, young persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and immigrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Conscious that older persons represent a large and growing segment of the population and that greater attention is needed to the specific human rights challenges affecting them,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2008), para. 09
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Encourages the United Nations regional commissions to consolidate the national findings of the review and appraisal by involving, inter alia, representatives of organizations of older persons from various regions that are directly involved in the participatory bottom-up review and appraisal exercise;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Towards a comprehensive and integral international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons (2013), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that, by 2050, more than 20 per cent of the world’s population will be 60 years of age or older, and recognizing also that the increase in the number of older persons will be greatest and most rapid in the developing world,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2009), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Recognizes the successful conclusion of the first review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 2 and its results at the international, regional and national levels;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that, by 2050, more than 20 per cent of the world’s population will be 60 years of age or older, and recognizing also that the increase in the number of older people will be the greatest and the most rapid in the developing world,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promoting social integration through social inclusion (2018), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the importance of ensuring the social integration of older persons and the promotion and protection of their rights, as an integral part of development policies at all levels, and recognizing that older persons can make a significant contribution to sustainable development in its three dimensions – economic, social and environmental,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2007), para. 30
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 21. 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;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 54
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 41. Reiterates the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in order to promote and facilitate further implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, as well as the results of its review and appraisal cycle, and in this regard encourages Governments to support the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing so as to enable the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide expanded assistance to countries, upon their request;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Calls upon Governments to ensure, as appropriate, conditions that enable families and communities to provide care and protection to persons as they age, and to evaluate improvement in the health status of older persons, including on a gender-specific basis, and to reduce disability and mortality;
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2008), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Encourages the international community and the relevant agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on gender and ageing;
- 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. 04
- Paragraph text
- Mindful of the need to promote adherence to the United Nations Principles for Older Persons, as adopted by its resolution 46/91 of 16 December 1991,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004), para. 38
- Paragraph text
- (e) With effect from 1 January 1999, all pensions in course of payment as at 31 December 1998, including pensions of judges who retire on or before that date, shall be increased by 10.3 per cent, i.e., the change resulting from the increase in the annual salary;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Cooperatives in social development (2016), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004), para. 55
- Paragraph text
- (e) With effect from 1 January 1999, all pensions in course of payment as at 31 December 1998, including pensions of judges who retire on or before that date, shall be increased by 10.3 per cent, i.e., the change resulting from the increase in the annual salary;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 49
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 36. Encourages the international community, including international and bilateral donors, to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable and adequate social and economic support for older persons, while bearing in mind that countries have the primary responsibility for their own economic and social development;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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. 12
- Paragraph text
- 5. Decides to review at its sixty-sixth session the pension schemes for 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, and requests the Secretary-General to include in his report a proposal for a mechanism that he may use to determine retirement pension benefits, taking into account acquired pension benefit rights accrued prior to serving in the Court or the Tribunals;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Reaffirms the Political Declaration 1 and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002; 2
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2009), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Encourages the international community to enhance international cooperation to support national efforts to eradicate poverty, in keeping with internationally agreed goals, in order to achieve sustainable social and economic support for older persons;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2002), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Invites Member States, where appropriate, to consider extending the mandate of national committees or other mechanisms established on the occasion of the International Year of Older Persons in order to undertake national preparations for the Second World Assembly, and invites those Member States currently without such mechanisms to consider appropriate ways or mechanisms for their preparations for the Second World Assembly;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2018), para. 64
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 26. Stresses the importance of taking targeted measures to eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, of implementing nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including social protection floors, and of achieving substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable, and encourages Member States to continue to develop and implement social protection floors based on national priorities, paying p articular attention to women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human resources management (2003), para. 113
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Notes with concern the possibility of an increase in the number of unrepresented and underrepresented Member States within the Secretariat, according to the statistics provided by the Secretariat on the number of retirees for the period from 2003 to 2007;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing also that the social exclusion of older persons is a complex process involving the lack or denial of resources, rights, goods and services as people age, and the inability of older persons to participate in societal relationships and activities, available to the majority of people across the varied and multiple domains of society, and that it affects both the quality of life of older persons and the equity and cohesion of an ageing society as a whole, with considerable implications for the enjoyment by older persons of their human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2004), para. 27
- Paragraph text
- Pension Scheme Regulations for the judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (based on the provisions of section VIII of General Assembly resolution 53/214 of
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the recent regional developments on the protection and promotion of the human rights of older persons, including the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Measures to enhance the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons (2016), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. 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 withi n the framework of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing established by the General Assembly in paragraph 28 of its resolution 65/182 of 21 December 2010;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 1998–1999 (1999), para. 58
- Paragraph text
- 1. Approves the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the emoluments, pensions and other conditions of service of members of the International Court of Justice;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Volunteers (2003), para. 17
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Reaffirms the need to recognize and promote all forms of volunteerism as an issue that involves and benefits all segments of society, including children, young persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities and immigrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Agriculture development, food security and nutrition (2016), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming also the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, so that they may be able to fully develop and maintain their physical and mental capacities, and underlining the need to make special efforts to meet nutritional needs, especially of women, children, older persons, indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities, as well as of those living in vulnerable situations,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 43
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 30. Calls upon Member States to address the issue of the well-being and adequate health care of older persons, as well as any cases of neglect, abuse and violence against older persons, by designing and implementing more effective prevention strategies and stronger laws and by developing coherent and comprehensive policy frameworks to address these problems and their underlying factors;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2010), para. 42
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 28. Also encourages States to pursue efforts to promote the concerns of older persons and persons with disabilities and their organizations in the planning, implementation and evaluation of all development programmes and policies;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Towards a comprehensive and integral international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons (2013), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Encouraged by the increasing interest of the international community in the promotion and protection of the rights and dignity of older persons in the world under a comprehensive and integral approach,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Encourages Governments to continue their efforts to implement the Madrid Plan of Action and to mainstream the concerns of older persons into their policy agendas, bearing in mind the crucial importance of family intergenerational interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development and the realization of all human rights for older persons, and to prevent age discrimination and provide social integration;
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that, by 2050, more than 20 per cent of the world’s population will be 60 years of age or older, and recognizing also that the increase in the number of older people will be the greatest and the most rapid in the developing world,
- 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. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. 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;
- 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. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 and stressing the need to ensure that issues of relevance to older persons are taken into account in its implementation in order to ensure that no one is left behind, including older persons,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming that the Political Declaration and Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 4 provide a broad spectrum of social, political and economic recommendations to improve the conditions of older women,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Convinced of the necessity to ensure an action-oriented follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons with a view to sustaining that momentum,
- 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. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned that many health systems are not sufficiently prepared to respond to the needs of the rapidly ageing population, including the need for preventive, curative, palliative and specialized care,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Literacy for life: shaping future agendas (2019), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Calls upon Governments to scale up literacy programmes for children, youth and adults, including older persons, with particular attention to those who are vulnerable or marginalized, to foster innovative delivery of literacy services, including through technology and a strengthened institutional network, to promote an intersectoral approach by linking literacy learning with multiple sectors to address diverse learning needs, such as through relevant and inclusive educational resources in different languages, to establish multi-stakeholder partnerships with the active participation of civil society and the private sector, to improve distance and digital learning resources and to develop a data-collection mechanism to assess levels of literacy, so as to encourage the integration of literacy learning into vocational training and health education to promote sustainable development;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2002), para. 63
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide updated information to the General Assembly at its fifty-seventh session, under the agenda item entitled “Human resources management,” on current practices related to the special ceiling on the United Nations annual earnings for United Nations retirees employed on a short-term basis in language services, as established by the Assembly in its decision 51/408 of 4 November 1996, with a view to reviewing this issue;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Integrating volunteering in the next decade (2013), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. Reaffirms the need to encourage volunteerism in all its forms, which contributes significantly to the cohesiveness and the well-being of communities and of societies as a whole and which involves and benefits all segments of society, especially women, children, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities, minorities, migrants and those who remain excluded for social or economic reasons;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2019), para. 07
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the importance of the mandate of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons in raising awareness of the rights of older persons, and taking note with appreciation of the reports of the Independent Expert 1 and of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, 2 which is open to all States Members of the United Nations, for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons,
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- 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. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- 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. 22
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 14. Recognizes the importance of strengthening intergenerational partnerships and solidarity among generations, and in this regard calls upon Member States to promote opportunities for voluntary, constructive and regular interaction between young people and older generations in the family, the workplace and society at large;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005–2015, and further efforts to achieve the sustainable development of water resources (2015), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Stresses the importance of the full involvement of all relevant stakeholders, including women, children, older persons, persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and local communities, in the implementation of the Decade at all levels and, as appropriate, in its comprehensive review;
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 23
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (e) To raise awareness of the challenges faced in the realization of the human rights of older persons and of the positive contribution of older persons to society, and to provide them with information about their rights;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human resources development (2020), para. 42
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Recognizes that an ageing workforce can have positive and negative implications for labour markets, and stresses the importance of lifelong learning to ensure the inclusion of older workers in the future of work;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Global health and foreign policy: an inclusive approach to strengthening health systems (2020), para. 68
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 23. Calls upon Member States to scale up efforts to promote healthy and active ageing, to maintain and improve quality of life of older persons and to respond to the needs of the rapidly ageing population, especially the need for promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care as well as specialized care and the sustainable provision of long-term care, taking into account national contexts and priorities;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (2016), para. 17
- Paragraph text
- 8. Requests the Secretary-General, in the context of future budget submissions for the Mechanism, to include a provision to fund the liabilities due within the related biennium for the pensions of retired judges, and their surviving spouses, and for after-service health insurance benefits to former staff of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Mechanism and, as appropriat e, the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia;
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2018), para. 64
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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 legal 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2020), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Encourages Member States to continue to enact inclusive and responsive family-oriented policies for poverty reduction in line with the main objectives of the twentieth anniversary of the International Year, to confront family poverty and social exclusion, recognizing the multidimensional aspects of poverty, focusing on inclusive and quality education and lifelong learning for all, health and well -being for all at all __________________ ages, full and productive employment, decent work, social security, livelihoods and social cohesion, including through gender- and age-sensitive social protection systems and measures, such as child allowances for parents and pension benefits for older persons, and to ensure that the rights, capabilities and responsibilities of all family members are respected;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Encourages Governments to actively address issues that affect older persons and to ensure 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- 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 (1996), para. 04
- Paragraph text
- Recalling further its resolution 45/106 of 14 December 1990, in which it recognized the complexity and rapidity of the ageing of the world's population and the need to have a common basis and frame of reference for the protection and promotion of the rights of older persons, including the contribution that older persons could and should make to society,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Reiterates the call for all States to empower older persons to fully and effectively participate in the economic, political and social lives of their societies;
- 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 (2018), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 15. Also encourages Member States to strengthen their efforts to develop national capacities to address their national implementation priorities identified during the review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action by considering and devising strategies that take into account the entirety of the human life course and foster intergenerational solidarity, the strengthening of institutional mechanisms, research, data collection and analysis and the training of necessary personnel in the field of ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2013), para. 53
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 32. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, eliminate discrimination, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly young people, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the challenges posed to social development by globalization and market-driven reforms in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 47
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 28. Also encourages Member States to ensure that older persons have access to information about their rights so as to enable them to participate fully and justly in their societies and to claim full enjoyment of all human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2009), para. 42
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 29. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the challenges posed by globalization and market-driven reforms to social development in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons (2020), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Expressing particular concern at the increased level of discrimination experienced by internally displaced persons, including those who may be in particularly vulnerable situations, including women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities, and emphasizing the need to ensure that their specific needs are met through the provision of adequate protection and access to assistance,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2014), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Takes note with appreciation of the decision of the Human Rights Council in its resolution 24/20 of 27 September 2013 4 to appoint an independent expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, and invites Member States to cooperate with the independent expert in carrying out his or her mandate;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017) (2015), para. 57
- Paragraph text
- 31. Stresses the importance of implementing nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including social protection floors, and of achieving substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable, and encourages Member States to continue developing and implementing social protection floors based on national priorities, paying particular attention to women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2006), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Calls upon Governments and, within their mandates, the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, and encourages the non-governmental community, to ensure that the challenges of population ageing and the concerns of older persons are adequately incorporated into their programmes and projects;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Measures to enhance the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons (2016), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Recognizes that the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 7 remains the only international instrument exclusively devoted to older persons, and that measures towards achieving its objectives should be strengthened so as to improve its positive impact on the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 38
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 25. Also calls upon Member States to strengthen and incorporate a gender and disability perspective into all policy actions on ageing, as well as to address and eliminate discrimination on the basis of age, sex or disability, and recommends that Member States engage with all sectors of society, in particular with relevant organizations with an interest in the matter, including organizations of older persons, women and persons with disabilities, in changing negative stereotypes about older persons, in particular older women and older persons with disabilities, and promote positive images of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 58
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 45. 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 legal 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 identifying possible gaps and how best to address them, including by considering, as appropriate, the feasibility of further instruments and measures;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
International financial system and development (2020), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Welcoming the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 4 and stressing the need to ensure that issues of relevance to older persons are taken into account in its implementation in order to ensure that no one is left behind, including older persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family and beyond (2019), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging also that strengthening intergenerational relations, through such measures as promoting intergenerational living arrangements and encouraging extended family members to live in close proximity to each other, has been found to promote the autonomy, security and well-being of children and older persons, and that initiatives to promote involved and positive parenting and to support the role of grandparents have been found to be beneficial in advancing social integration and solidarity between generations, as well as in promoting and protecting the human rights of all family members,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations pension system (2009), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Volunteering for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2019), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Encourages the meaningful participation and integration of all people, including youth, older persons, women, migrants, refugees, persons with disabilities, minorities and other marginalized groups, into volunteer-involving programmes and projects, with the provision of the appropriate means to leverage the full potential of volunteerism;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- "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
Paragraph
Towards a comprehensive and integral international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons (2013), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 1. Decides that the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, which shall be open to all Member States and observers of the United Nations shall, as part of its mandate and starting from its upcoming fourth session, to be held in 2013, consider proposals for an international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons, based on the holistic approach in the work carried out in 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 56
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 43. 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Pattern of conferences (1997), para. 52
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Also requests the Secretary-General to complete the task of uploading all important older United Nations documents on the United Nations Web site on a priority basis, so that these archives are also available to Member States through that medium.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 62
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 43. Encourages the international community and the relevant agencies of the United Nations system, within their respective mandates, to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data-collection initiatives on ageing, as appropriate, in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and to provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information with regard to a gender perspective on ageing, as well as to include indicators that provide an evidence base for the equitable delivery and effective monitoring of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, the New Urban Agenda 19 and national policymaking, as well as to gain a better understanding of how to promote ageing in a way that is not adversely affected by rapid urbanization and gentrification;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2014), para. 23
- Paragraph text
- (vi) The violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to severe malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular for persons belonging to particularly exposed groups, inter alia, women, children and the elderly;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (2019), para. 34
- Paragraph text
- (vi) Violations of economic, social and cultural rights, which have led to food insecurity, severe hunger, malnutrition, widespread health problems and other hardship for the population in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in particular for women, children, persons with disabilities, older persons and political prisoners;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Health
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights (2019), para. 31
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. Welcomes the panel discussion held pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 39/18 at its forty-first session on the theme “Technical cooperation and capacity- building in the field of the human rights of older persons”, at which participants discussed relevant issues, including national and regional efforts to combat all forms of discrimination against older persons and to promote and protect their rights, the initiatives organized by the World Health Organization for the Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020-2030 and the Global Network for Age-friendly Cities and Communities, the potential impact of new technologies on the human rights of older persons and the importance of promoting the empowerment and meaningful participation of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2007), para. 15
- Paragraph text
- 11. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session on options for designing pension schemes for 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, including defined-benefit and defined-contribution schemes, taking into account the possibility of calculating pensions on the basis of the number of years served rather than the term of office;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2003), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 16. Urges all Member States and other actors to contribute generously to the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing and to support activities undertaken in follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, including technical cooperation to promote the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (c) To gather, request, receive and exchange information and communications from and with States and other relevant sources, including older persons, their representative organizations and other civil society organizations, on violations of the rights of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
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 (2009), para. 12
- Paragraph text
- 8. Decides that the emoluments, pensions, and other conditions of service for 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 shall next be reviewed at its sixty-fifth session, including options for defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes, and in this regard, requests the Secretary-General to ensure that, in that review, the expertise available within the United Nations is taken full advantage of;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting the recent regional developments on the protection and promotion of the human rights of older persons, including the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Older Persons in Africa,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Deeply concerned by the increasing number and scale of humanitarian emergencies and their impact on older persons, particularly older women, reiterating the importance of giving due consideration to their specific needs, as well as their capacity to respond, and to the contributions of older persons to the planning and implementation of humanitarian assistance and efforts in disaster risk reduction, and noting with concern that the multiple forms of discrimination experienced by older women can be exacerbated during humanitarian emergencies and aggravate their potential vulnerabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Participation of volunteers, “White Helmets”, in the activities of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and technical cooperation for development (2015), para. 09
- Paragraph text
- Emphasizing the need to integrate a gender perspective, as well as a perspective on the needs of children, young people, older persons and people with disabilities, in the design and implementation of all phases of disaster risk reduction,
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human rights of internally displaced persons (2012), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 13. Expresses particular concern at the grave problems faced by many internally displaced women and children, including violence and abuse, sexual exploitation, trafficking in persons, forced recruitment and abduction, and encourages the continued commitment of the Special Rapporteur to promote action to address their particular assistance, protection and development needs, as well as those of other groups with special needs, such as severely traumatized individuals, older persons and persons with disabilities, taking into account all relevant United Nations resolutions;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 34
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 18. Recommends that Member States increase efforts to raise awareness of the Madrid Plan of Action and identify key priority areas for its implementation, including empowering older persons and promoting their rights, bearing in mind the crucial importance of intergenerational family interdependence, solidarity and reciprocity for social development, raising awareness of ageing issues and building national capacities, as well as promoting and supporting initiatives to advance a positive public image of older persons and their multiple contributions to their families, communities and societies and working with the regional commissions, as needed, 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
- Families
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Policies and programmes involving youth (2014), para. 27
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 17. Recognizes the importance of strengthening intergenerational partnerships and solidarity among generations, and in this regard calls upon Member States to promote opportunities for voluntary, constructive and regular interaction between young people and older generations in the family, the workplace and society at large;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights (2018), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Decides, in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 of its resolution 18/18 of 29 September 2011, that the theme of the annual thematic panel discussion under agenda item 10, to be held during its forty-first session, will be “Technical cooperation and capacity- building in the field of the human rights of older persons”;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2007), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 4. Invites Governments that have not done so to designate focal points for handling follow-up of national plans of action on ageing;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Human resources management (1995), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Decides to continue consideration of the question of human rights of older persons at its twenty-fourth session.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
University for Peace (2000), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Noting with appreciation that the University is organizing a symposium in celebration of the International Year of Older Persons, 1999, at which it will emphasize the valuable contribution that older persons can make to the promotion of peace, solidarity, tolerance and the culture of peace,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2015), para. 60
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 47. Calls upon Member States to continue to contribute to the work of the Working Group, in particular by presenting concrete proposals, practical measures, best practices and lessons learned that will contribute to promoting and protecting the rights and dignity of older persons, in order to enable it to fulfil its mandate;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1998), para. 07
- Paragraph text
- Keeping in mind that the ageing of societies in the twentieth century, unprecedented in the history of humankind, is a major challenge for all societies and requires a fundamental change in the way in which societies organize themselves and view older persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2011), para. 04
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Taking note of the reports of the Secretary-General on the follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing as well as the current status of the social situation, well-being, participation in development and rights of older persons, 2F 3
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Urges Governments to take measures to enable all older women to be actively engaged in all aspects of life by assuming 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 non-governmental organizations, where appropriate, to ensure that older women can achieve their full enjoyment of human rights and quality of life, 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
Paragraph
Protection of and assistance to internally displaced persons (2006), para. 20
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 5. Expresses particular concern at the grave problems faced by many internally displaced women and children, including violence and abuse, sexual exploitation, forced recruitment and abduction, and welcomes the commitment of the Representative of the Secretary-General to pay more systematic and in-depth attention to their particular assistance, protection and development needs, as well as to other groups with special needs, such as severely traumatized individuals, older persons and persons with disabilities, taking into account the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and bearing in mind Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) of 31 October 2000;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations pension system (2007), para. 21
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 3. Recalls its decision in section II of its resolution 59/269 to invite the Board to provide information on the special situation of pensioners living in countries having undergone dollarization and on possible proposals to attenuate the adverse consequences arising therefrom, and notes that the Board did not agree on a recommendation to attenuate the adverse consequences of pensioners living in countries having undergone dollarization;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 25
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building in the field of human rights (2018), para. 28
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 9. Calls upon States, international human rights bodies and mechanisms, relevant international organizations, national human rights institutions and civil society to share best practices and to make use of the ideas and issues raised in the panel discussion to enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and policy coherence of technical cooperation and capacity-building efforts in the promotion and protection of the human rights, including the rights of older persons.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 1998–1999 (1999), para. 60
- Paragraph text
- 3. Decides, in this regard, to amend article 7, paragraph 2, of the Pension Scheme Regulations for Members of the International Court of Justice to read as follows: 17
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2011), para. 56
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 39. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, eliminate discrimination, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly young people, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the challenges posed by globalization and market-driven reforms to social development in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling further the General Assembly and Human Rights Council resolutions on the issue of the human rights of older persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Questions relating to the programme budget for the biennium 1998–1999 (1999), para. 61
- Paragraph text
- “Pensions in payment shall be automatically revised by the same percentage and at the same date as salary adjustments.”;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2002), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Aware that women constitute the majority of older populations in all regions of the world and represent an important human resource, whose contribution to society has not been fully recognized,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (2013), para. 12
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 6. Expresses particular concern at the grave problems faced by many internally displaced women and children, including violence and abuse, sexual and labour exploitation, trafficking in persons, forced recruitment and abduction, and notes the need to continue to pay more systematic and in-depth attention to their special assistance, protection and development needs, as well as those of other groups with special needs, such as older persons, persons with disabilities and severely traumatized individuals affected by internal displacement, taking into account the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 41
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
United Nations pension system (2007), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 39
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 23. Encourages States parties to existing international human rights instruments, where appropriate, to address the situation of older persons more explicitly in their reports, and encourages treaty body monitoring mechanisms and special procedures mandate holders to pay due regard to the situation of older persons in their dialogue with Member States, particularly in their concluding observations and reports, respectively;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Measures to enhance the promotion and protection of the human rights and dignity of older persons (2016), para. 19
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 2. Also recognizes that the challenges faced by many older persons impede their social, economic and cultural participation and the full enjoyment of their human rights;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Violence against women migrant workers (2018), para. 62
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 25. Urges Governments to support enhanced reception and reintegration assistance for those who return, with particular attention to the needs of victims of trafficking in persons and of migrants in vulnerable situations, inter alia, children, older women and women with disabilities;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2002), para. 05
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Reaffirming the necessity of ensuring that the Second World Assembly will provide an action-oriented follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons, and recognizing the importance of an adequate preparatory process,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 13
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned about the multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination that may create additional vulnerabilities for older persons and affect their enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and noting that older women often face multiple forms of discrimination resulting from gender inequality,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages (1998), para. 02
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 47/5 of 16 October 1992, in which it decided to observe the year 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 54
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 35. Urges Member States to strengthen intersectoral policy frameworks and institutional mechanisms, as appropriate, for the integrated management of th e prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, including health promotion, health-care services and social welfare services, in order to address the needs of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
World Summit Outcome (2005), para. 128
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) Developing and implementing a package for HIV prevention, treatment and care with the aim of coming as close as possible to the goal of universal access to treatment by 2010 for all those who need it, including through increased resources, and working towards the elimination of stigma and discrimination, enhanced access to affordable medicines and the reduction of vulnerability of persons affected by HIV/AIDS and other health issues, in particular orphaned and vulnerable children and older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 16
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (2013), para. 33
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (d) To integrate a gender perspective throughout the work of the mandate, and to give special consideration to the human rights of internally displaced women and children, as well as of other groups with special needs, such as older persons, persons with disabilities and severely traumatized individuals affected by internal displacement, and their particular assistance, protection and development needs;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Humanitarian
- Movement
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Optional Protocol thereto: accessibility (2020), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing the need to take into account the specific challenges linked to accessibility for older persons with disabilities, especially those faced by older women with disabilities,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2016), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (h) To integrate a gender and disability perspective throughout the work of the mandate, and to address multiple, intersecting and aggravated forms of discrimination faced by older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 15
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 7. Invites existing special procedures and encourages treaty bodies, within their existing mandates, to pay attention to the human rights of older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 08
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that the objectives of the International Year and its follow-up processes, especially those relating to family policies in the areas of poverty, work–family balance and intergenerational issues, with attention given to the rights and responsibilities of all family members, can contribute to ending poverty, ending hunger, ensuring a healthy life and promoting the well-being of all at all ages, promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all, and ensuring better education outcomes for children, to gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and to the full enjoyment by older persons of all human rights and fundamental freedoms, as part of an integrated and comprehensive approach to development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Girls
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Protection of the family: role of the family in supporting the protection and promotion of human rights of older persons (2017), para. 34
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 20. Encourages States to increase efforts to raise awareness of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, 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 and by working with the respective international, regional and national bodies and mechanisms, as appropriate;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2013), para. 40
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Promotion of sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, for poverty eradication and environment protection (2019), para. 41
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (2000), para. 11
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (a) Action-oriented measures to be taken by societies in a comprehensive response to the current ageing processes, on the basis of the best practices and lessons learned during the International Year of Older Persons, and bearing in mind the social, cultural and economic realities of each society;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2020), para. 14
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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
Paragraph
Questions relating to information (2010), para. 051
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 23. Requests the Secretary-General to continue towards completion of the task of uploading all important older United Nations documents on the United Nations website in all six official languages on a priority basis, so that these archives are also available to Member States through that medium;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
United Nations pension system (2019), para. 41
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- (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
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 24
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 10. Stresses the importance of national follow-up activities to the International Year of Older Persons through involving older persons and consulting them on their needs;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 10
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Concerned that many health systems are not sufficiently prepared to respond to the needs of the rapidly ageing population, including the need for preventive, curative, palliative and specialized care,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Cooperatives in social development (2004), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 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 and persons with disabilities, and are becoming a major factor of economic and social development,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Situation of older women in society (2003), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling its resolution 44/76 of 8 December 1989 on elderly women and its resolution 56/126 of 19 December 2001 on the situation of older women in society, Economic and Social Council resolution 1982/23 of 4 May 1982 on elderly women and the World Assembly on Ageing and Council resolutions 1986/26 of 23 May 1986 and 1989/38 of 24 May 1989 on elderly women, and Commission on the Status of Women resolution 36/4 of 20 March 1992 on the integration of elderly women into development, 1
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2007), para. 18
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 11. Reaffirms that social integration policies should seek to reduce inequalities, promote access to basic social services, education for all and health care, increase the participation and integration of social groups, particularly youth, older persons and persons with disabilities, and address the challenges posed by globalization and market-driven reforms to social development in order for all people in all countries to benefit from globalization;
- Topic(s)
- Education
- Equality & Inclusion
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Youth
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
Paragraph
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Pe rsons: a society for all ages (2000), para. 03
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling also the International Conference on Ageing, which it convened on 15 and 16 October 1992 on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the International Plan of Action on Ageing, and which, inter alia, recommended the observance of the International Year of Older Persons in 1999,
- 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 (2016), para. 13
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- Paragraph text
- Concerned at the multiple forms of discrimination that may affect older persons and at the high incidence of poverty and isolation among this particularly vulnerable group, especially older women, persons with disabilities, persons of African descent, individuals belonging to indigenous peoples, persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, rural persons, persons living on the streets, migrants and refugees, among other groups,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Poverty
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Ethnic minorities
- Older persons
- Persons on the move
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (2010), para. 38
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- Paragraph text
- 22. 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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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2017), para. 22
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- Paragraph text
- 9. Invites Member States to adopt and implement non-discriminatory policies and to systematically review and amend, where appropriate, existing practices and regulations that discriminate against older persons in order to promote an enabling environment for older persons;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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United Nations pension system (2015), para. 22
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- Paragraph text
- 15. Approves the amendment regarding the special adjustment for small pensions, as set out in annex XIII to the report of the Board, to reflect the 10 per cent adjustment to small pension threshold amounts for separations on or after 1 April 2016;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Integration of older women in development (1995), para. 07
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- Paragraph text
- 1. Takes note with appreciation of the joint publication by the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and the Statistics Division of the Secretariat of The Situation of Elderly Women: Available Statistics and Indicators 3/ and encourages the Institute and the Division to continue their pioneering work in this field;
- Topic(s)
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights of older persons (2012), para. 06
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- Recalling general comment No. 6 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the economic, social and cultural rights of older persons, as well as other relevant documents by treaty bodies,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Pattern of conferences (2014), para. 094
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- Paragraph text
- 78. Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on a detailed time frame for the digitization of all important older United Nations documents, including parliamentary documents, and on options for expediting this process within existing resources;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Older persons
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Impact of arms transfers on human rights in armed conflicts (2013), para. 11
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- Paragraph text
- 1. Expresses its deep concern at the fact that arms transfers to those involved in armed conflicts may seriously undermine the human rights of civilians, especially women, children, the elderly, persons with disabilities and vulnerable groups;
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing (2019), para. 09
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- Paragraph text
- Acknowledging that many developing countries and countries with economies in transition are confronting a double burden of fighting emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, in parallel with the increasing threat of non-communicable diseases, and expressing concern about the impact on older persons,
- Topic(s)
- 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 (2004), para. 26
- Original document
- Paragraph text
- 12. 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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Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (2010), para. 34
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- Paragraph text
- 20. Reaffirms that violence, in its many manifestations, including domestic violence, particularly against women, children, older persons and persons with disabilities, and especially against persons belonging to more than one of these groups, is a growing threat to the security of individuals, families and communities everywhere; total social breakdown is an all too real contemporary experience; organized crime, illegal drugs, the illicit arms trade, trafficking in human beings, particularly women and children, ethnic and religious conflict, civil war, terrorism, all forms of extremist violence, xenophobia, and politically motivated killing and genocide present fundamental threats to societies and the global social order; they also present compelling and urgent reasons for action by Governments individually and, as appropriate, jointly to foster social cohesion while recognizing, protecting and valuing diversity;
- Topic(s)
- Social & Cultural Rights
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Older persons
- Persons with disabilities
- Women
- 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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- Paragraph text
- 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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