Growing Ageing Population - 60+ Years
NEWSFLASH!!
- The twelfth session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWGA) closed with a proposal from Argentina to convene a “Cross Regional Core Group” during the intersessional period to prepare a draft decision to be submitted to the OEWGA at its thirteenth session in 2023, that would propose an Intersessional Working Group to prepare and present a draft text determining the main gaps in the international human rights system for older persons, which would be the basis for the further negotiations of instruments and measures to close those gaps. Watch this space as more information becomes available.
- JOIN the Age with Rights Campaign – use toolkits provided by the Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People: https://rightsofolderpeople.org/
- 336 NGOs from 78 countries signed an Open Letter calling for urgent action to be taken by the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing to protect the rights of older persons. https://rightsofolderpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Open-Letter-for-OEWGA-Bureau_20-Sep-2021_List-of-Signatories-7-April-2022.pdf
- A full listing of current and past newsletters may be found here.
- Learn how to use your Twitter Account !! Powerpoint presentation here.
Notifications of events organized throughout the year by the NGO Committee on Ageing will be sent out by email. Watch this space for updates on upcoming events. Full list of recent events of interest to our members may be found here.
RECOMMENDED EVENTS
WORLD SUMMIT FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (WSIS)
UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE WORLD SUMMIT FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY (WSIS) AND SPECIAL TRACK ON OLDER PERSONS (in the context of UN Decade of Healthy Ageing)
Dr. Cynthia Stuen, Chair of NGO Committee on Ageing-NY will be a panelist on the event held on 2 May 2022 that discusses “Opening of the ICTs and older persons special track”.
https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2022/Agenda/SpecialTrack/5
https://www.decadeofhealthyageing.org/topics-initiatives/other-initiatives/wsis-forum-2022#grid1
NGO COA program event on Mental Health: the New Frontier in Global Ageing.
A video of the recording for the May 5th event is available here.
Also, the NGO Committee on Ageing calls your attention to this presentation from the recent May 5, 2022 meeting:
NGOCOA-NY May 5th Powerpoint presentation (NOTE: Large File Download - pptx 24 MB)
IFA Global Cafe Series. Dr. Alexandre Sidorenko - Older people of Ukraine in the time of the Russian invasion.
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, 2022 Celebration (Decade of Healthy Ageing theme)
Register here for the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
Videos, reports and articles related to COVID-19 can be accessed here.
Useful websites (which also provide links to other useful information):
https://www.un.org/en/coronavirus
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/pages/home.aspx
https://rightsofolderpeople.org/covid-19-resources-relating-to-older-people/
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019
Joint letter sent by the NGO Committees in Geneva, New York, and Vienna to the Executive Director of UN Women, dated 26 October 2021. Here...
“Older women: the hidden workforce”, a publication by Age International UK.
Human Rights Council resolution on human rights of older persons
https://undocs.org/A/HRC/RES/48/3
Human Rights of older women: the intersection between ageing and gender - report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, A/76/157
Here.
Ageism and age discrimination - report of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, A/HRC/48/53
Here.
Report of the Secretary-General on Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing: A/76/156.
Here.
World Population Ageing 2020 Highlights: Living arrangements of older persons
Here.
World Population Ageing 2020 Highlights
Here.
Population Fact Sheet 2020.
Here.
Report of the Independent Expert (Claudia Mahler) on Human Rights of Older Persons: the data gap. A/HRC/45/14
Here.
Report of the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Independent Expert on Impact of the coronovirus disease (COVID-19) on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons. A/75/205
Here.
Report of the Secretary-General on Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing. A/75/218
Here.
A/74/186, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, on older persons with disabilities.
Facts about older women prepared for UNECE Beijing plus 25 review, Geneva October 2019, Section 1: overview: achievements and challenges since 1995.
HereE/CN.5/2020/3, Report of the Secretary-General on affordable housing and social protection systems for all to address homelessness.
HereReport of Expert Group Meeting on “Affordable Housing and Social Protection Systems for All to Address Homelessness”.
HereWorld Population Ageing 2019, Ten Key Messages. Here. Please note that the World Population Ageing 2019 report refers to older persons as 65 and above.
HereA/74/170: Report of the Secretary-General on Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing.
HereA/AC.278/2019/2: Report of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing on its tenth working session.
HereFor documents related to the 11th session of the Open Ended Working Group on Ageing:
https://social.un.org/ageing-working-group/eleventhsession.shtmlA/HRC/41/32: Report of the OHCHR on activities of the OHCHR, United Nations system and regional organizations to support States’ efforts to promote and protect the human rights of older persons.
Here