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Presently, there is no international legally binding instrument to protect the human rights of older persons. It is, however, been discussed since 2011 by "The Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing for the Purpose of Strengthening the Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons" (mostly referred to as the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing, OEWGA) which was established by United Nations ...
Elderly Man in front of Tesco Mall. Upholding and protecting the rights of older adults is vital to addressing problems related to ageing and ageism.With the rapid growth of population of older people globally, [6] there has been international efforts to focus on issues associated with ageing and protection of the elderly in the past decade. [7]
Since 1959, World Refugee Year, the UN has designated specific years in order to draw attention to important issues. [3] Governments of Member States, assisted by civil society, are encouraged to take the themes as opportunities to raise awareness and promote policy initiatives among citizens (The same rationale is applied to a lengthy list of annual days and special decades).
On December 14, 1990, the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish October 1 as the International Day of Older People as recorded in Resolution 45/106. [1] The holiday was observed for the first time on October 1, 1991. [2] The observance is a focus of ageing organizations and the United Nations Programme on Ageing.
DHDR Article 34 is dedicated to the formulation of the duty and responsibility to promote and enforce the rights and well-being of the elderly, trying to ensure the full and effective enjoyment by elderly people of all human rights and fundamental freedoms without discrimination on the basis of age, and to respect the well-being, dignity and ...
United Nations judges have declared an 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to continue standing trial because he has dementia and said they would establish a procedure to go on hearing ...
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The International Federation on Ageing (IFA; French: Fédération Internationale du Vieillissement) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1973 and based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada working in the field of ageing, older persons and ageing-related issues such as ageism, [2] The intent of the organisation is for NGOs, the corporate sector, academia, government, and ...