Key Documents On Ageing Issues:
• Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA): https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/documents/ageing/MIPAA/political-declaration-en.pdf
• Action Items selected from MIPAA
• United Nations Principles on Ageing, General Assembly resolution 46/91 of 16 December 1991:
http://undocs.org/A/RES/46/91
• 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)
• 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (http://undocs.org/A/RES.70/1)
• High Level political Forum, which meets annually to discuss implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf
• Stakeholder Group on Ageing, position papers:
https://stakeholdergrouponageing.org
• Guidelines for a Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, Follow-up Meeting of the Brasilia Declaration, "For the Rights of Older Persons" ECLAC Headquarters, 5 and 6 October, 2009
UN Resources
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Programme Unit on Ageing (https://www.un.org/development/desa/ageing/)
United Nations Social Development Network (https://unsdn.org/)
United Nations Division for Sustainable Development (sustainabledevelopment.un.org)
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/OlderPersons/Pages/OlderPersonsIndex.aspx)
UN Population Fund – Ageing (https://www.unfpa.org/ageing)
UN Department of Global Communications (https://www.un.org/en/department-global-communications)
UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
UN Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
World Health Organization – Ageing (https://www.who.int/health-topics/ageing#tab=tab_1)
Organizational Resources
American Psychological Association – Office on Aging
Association of Former International Civil Servants
Global Action on Aging
Gray Panthers (graypanthersnyc.org)
Global Alliance for Rights of Older People (rightsofolderpeople.org)
HelpAge International
International Association of Gerontology & Geriatrics
International Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing
International Council for Caring Communities
International Federation on Ageing
International Longevity Center
International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse
Stakeholder Group on Ageing stakeholdergrouponageing.org
Other Information:
Virginia Hazzard Legacy Fund press release, May 2016
Older Persons Are Important... We All Count And We Must All Be Counted, February 2016
Presidential Proclamation -- National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, 2015
Joint Statement -- Human Rights for All Post–2015, December 2013