Growing Ageing Population - 60+ Years
NEWSFLASH!!
AN IMPORTANT MEETING ON THE RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS
- High-Level Meeting on Ageing (IN PERSON)
8 May 2025, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Conference Room 4
NGO-COA members with ECOSOC status are urged to attend, in person, the High-Level Meeting being convened by the President of the General Assembly in response to General Assembly resolution 78/324, operative paragraph 3 (https://undocs.org/A/RES/78/324).
The concept note, with the programme of the high level meeting, can be downloaded here.
The meeting can be viewed on UN Web TV ( https://webtv.un.org/), but WE STRONGLY URGE NGOs WITH ECOSOC STATUS TO BE IN THE ROOM, as a sign of our continuing commitment to protecting the rights of older persons everywhere. Hear what Member States have to say and see how their views can have an impact on the work of our organizations, particularly with respect to advocating for the rights of older persons.
Useful websites:
- More information under “Rights of Older Persons” on this website.
- Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People (https://rightsofolderpeople.org/)
- United Nations, Division for Inclusive Social Development, Programme on Ageing Section: (https://social.desa.un.org/issues/ageing).
- Work of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing (https://social.un.org/ageing-working-group/).
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (https://www.ohchr.org/en/topic/older-persons).
- Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons (https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/ie-older-persons)
- World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/health-topics/ageing#tab=tab_1)
WHY DO WE NEED A CONVENTION? WATCH TWO VIDEOS from Amnesty International:
“The Forgotten Convention”
“Age Loud”
- Also, refer to Why we need a convention to promote and protect the rights of older persons.
- Access our Newsletters here: https://ngocoa-ny.org/resources/newsletters/
RECOMMENDED EVENTS
One of the NGO-COA members, the International Federation on Ageing (IFA), is organizing its 17th biennial global conference on ageing this year in Cape Town, South Africa, 9-12 September 2025.
The 2025 themes are:
- Age-Friendly Environments
- Building Capacity in LMICs: Policy and Good Practice
- Connecting Ageing and the Economy – family, intergenerational dynamics
- Healthy Ageing – human rights, immunization for all ages
- Improving Practice through Digital Technologies
- Long-term care and improving function.
The Conference brings together thought leaders, researchers, policy-makers, and advocates from around the world to drive action on ageing.
Link to information on registration, submission of abstracts, events, and planning your stay: https://www.ifaconf.ngo/
Ageing of the Oppressed - A Pandemic of Intersecting Injustice
Editor: Silvia Perel-Levin
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Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other "isms." Despite its visibility during the COVID-19 pandemic, ageism is not a new phenomenon but one that has been ignored for too long by policymakers and the general population. The negative language used to describe population ageing adds fuel to the fire by filling people’s minds with ageist images that permeate all levels and sectors of society. We should all be recognized as full human rights holders, no matter our age, ability, disability, gender or sexual orientation, race, or socio-economic or any other status. This book combines theoretical models and academic essays by top experts with the real-life experience of older persons and activists. It is a must-read for advocates for human rights; policymakers; service providers; students of social and health sciences, the humanities, and law; and anybody willing to challenge assumptions and practices. The proposed UN Convention on the human rights of older persons will be a step forward to providing older persons with a remedy for daily and often life-long oppression.
Annual report of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly - the topic for this year refers to intergenerational solidarity across public policy domains, highlighting opportunities and challenges for current and future generations of older persons (https://undocs.org/A/79/157)
Reports of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons on:
- Future generations of older persons (https://undocs.org/A/79/167)
- Legal capacity and informed consent (https://undocs.org/A/HRC/57/42)
- Violence against and abuse and neglect of older persons (https://undocs.org/A/HRC/54/26)
- Visit to Peru (https://undocs.org/A/HRC/57/42/Add.1)
Report of the Open-ended working group on Ageing at its 14th session (https://undocs.org/A/AC.278/2024/2)
Documents submitted to the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing at its 14th session, 20-22 and 24 May 2024 (https://social.un.org/ageing-working-group/fourteenthsession.shtml)
Report of the OHCHR – Summary of the multi-stakeholder meeting on the human rights of older persons (https://undocs.org/A/HRC/52/49)
Report of the OHCHR – Normative standards and obligations under international law in relation to the promotion and protection of the human rights of older persons (https://undocs.org/A/HRC/49/70).
Report of the Secretary-General on Fourth review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2022, (https://undocs.org/E/CN.5/2023/6)
Report of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, 12th session: (https://undocs.org/A/AC.278/2022/2)
Joint letter from the three NGO Committees (New York, Geneva, Vienna) to UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and to UN Women, expressing concerns about lack of references to older women, here: Letter on gender snapshot
Reports on ageing issues prepared by various entities of the UN system can be found in the list of entities under “Resources/Key International Documents on Ageing”
Learn more about the Committee’s mission here.