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06-february-2025

DUE TO PRESIDENT BIDEN’S DECLARATION OF A NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING FOR FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER, THE NGO COA/NY WILL RESCHEDULE THE JANUARY PROGRAM TO FEBRUARY 6, 2025. A REVISED FLYER WILL BE AVAILABLE AT A LATER DATE.

“The World Bank Pillars of Ageing Strategy”

Following the business portion of this meeting, Gustavo DeMarco, Lead Economist and Pension Global Lead for The World Bank will lead us in an informative and engaging discussion, guided in part by the publication Charting a Course Towards Universal Social Protection: Resilience, Equity, and Opportunity for All (The World Bank Group, 2022).

Mr. DeMarco’s work aims to strengthen social protections for older persons, especially for older women whose vital lifetime work in family or community settings has been met with nominal or low compensation. In this program, we will learn about promising strategies and approaches being explored by The World Bank and its global partners seeking to remediate challenges that can lead to an impoverished older age. This real-world example highlights efforts toward meeting Sustainable Development Goal #1: Poverty Eradication and Goal #5: Gender Equality.

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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