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07-november-2024

Empowering Older Women and Strengthening Rights:

Investing in Equality and Addressing the Funding Gap for Older Women

Thursday, November 7, 2024

10:00-11:00 AM EST

This is a virtual Program. Use this link (no registration required)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83818278166

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HelpAge International has recently released a new report, Investing in Equality: Addressing the Funding Gap for Older Women, that focuses on older women’s lifetime of disadvantage and discrimination, the bleak picture of donor spending, and empowering and strengthening their rights. To bring you cutting-edge, data-driven information, we are focusing this program on a presentation of the report and its implications. This interactive program will help us craft directions for our work on older women and the economic and social gaps.

Business Meeting

Welcome and Update - William Smith, PhD, Chair, NGO Committee on Ageing/NY

Report on Sub-committee Meeting and Updates — Robin Fenley, PhD, Vice Chair

Program

Speaker: Tanvi Patel, Gender Policy Advisor, HelpAge International

Moderator: Robin Fenley

Audience Response and Q & A

Summary and Closing: Sandra Timmermann, EdD, NGO CoA Program Co-Chair

Recent Publications of Interest to us

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:


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

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