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UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE
RESOLUTION ON AGEING
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The UN Third Committee of
the General Assembly adopted landmark resolution on ageing on 16 November 2010
(A/C.3/65/L.8/Rev.1) in which the GA decided "to establish an
open-ended working group, open to all States Members of the United
Nations, for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of
older persons by considering the existing international framework of the human
rights of older persons and identifying possible gaps and how best to address
them, including by considering, as appropriate, the feasibility of further instruments
and measures".
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The
General Assembly
2. Encourages Governments to pay greater attention to building capacity
to
eradicate poverty among older persons, in particular older women, by
mainstreaming ageing issues into poverty eradication strategies and
national development plans, and to include both ageing-specific policies
and ageing-mainstreaming efforts in their national strategies.
16.Also
calls upon Member States to strengthen and incorporate a gender
perspective into all policy actions on ageing, as well as to eliminate and
address discrimination on the basis of age and gender, and recommends
that
Member States engage with all sectors of society, including women's
groups and organizations of older persons, in changing negative stereo-
types about older persons, in particular older women, and promote
positive images of older persons.
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Geneva International Network on
Ageing - Resources
Astrid
Stuckelberger, PhD
President,
Geneva International
Network on Ageing
Chair,
NGO Committee on Ageing, United Nations Geneva