Useful LinksOfficial UN website on Open-ended Working Group:
Second Open-ended Working Group information – including NGO registration:
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) – Ageing
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Ageing
Human Rights BodiesUN human rights bodies
Regional human rights bodies:African Commission on Human and People's Rights
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights |
Official Documents and UN ProcessesAll international human rights instruments www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/InternationalLaw.aspx
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (available in more than 300 languages and dialects) Collection of laws and policy instruments relating to the human rights of older people. The database was put together by The Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, which is part of the Washington College of Law in The American University in Washington D.C. Funded by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), this project has captured and made available international, regional and national policy frameworks and laws that pertain to the rights of older people. https://www.wcl.american.edu/hracademy/elderlyrights/listofsources.cfm
Brasilia Declaration, 'Second Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a society for all ages and rights-based social protection', ECLAC UN, Brasilia, Brazil, 4–6 December 2007. www.eclac.org/celade/brasilia2007
Report of the Expert Group Meeting: 'Rights of Older Persons', UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development, Programme on Ageing, Bonn, Germany, 5–7 May 2009
The Toronto Declaration on the Global Prevention of Elder Abuse, WHO/INPEA, 2002:
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