International Rights of Older Persons

Commission Resources

• Liaison Report on the Ninth Working Session - United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (July 23-26, 2018)
  
• Liaison Report on the Eighth Working Session - United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (July  5 - 7,  2017)
• Statement of William B. T. Mock, ABA Liaison to the to the Sixth Session of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (July 14 – 16,  2015)
• Remarks given at the 4th meeting of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing by William L. Pope, ABA Liaison to the UN Working Group (August 12-15,  2013)
• ABA Section on International Law Panel Discussion: Is An International Convention on the Rights of Older Persons Needed?  (April 17,  2012)
  • Listen to the audio recording of the panel (MP3)
  • Participant bios
• ABA Policy 106C urging support of the ongoing processes at the United Nations and the Organization of American States to strengthen protection of the rights of older persons, including the efforts and consultations towards an international and regional human rights instrument on the rights of older persons.
• Final Draft Inter-American Convention on Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons (adopted June 2015)

Key Web Links

Global Alliance to Strengthen the Rights of Older People
Includes “why we need a convention,” information about the UN Open Ended Working Group Meetings, and useful links to other materials.

HelpAge International
Contains information about HAI’s work toward a human rights convention.

Global Action on Aging
Weekly news postings to website on elder rights, health, emergencies, income support, HIV/AIDS and more. Much information in the six UN languages.

• Homepage
• Aging Watch at the UN
• Toward a Human Rights Convention for Older Persons

U.N.’s Ageing Social Policy and Development Division
General information about UN’s work on ageing

U.N. Open Ended Working Group on Ageing

• First Working Session (United Nations Headquarters, New York, April 18 to 21, 2011)
• Second Working Session (United Nations Headquarters, New York, August 1 - 4, 2011)
• Third Working Session (United Nations Headquarters, New York, August 21 – 24, 2012)
• Fourth Working Session (United Nations Headquarters, New York, August 12 – 15, 2013)
• Fifth Working Session (United Nations Headquarters, New York, July 30-August 1, 2014)
  
• Sixth Working Session (United Nations Headquarters, New York, July 14 – 16, 2015)

Articles

The Human Rights of Older Persons Take a Step Forward by Charlie Sabatino, Bifocal, Vol. 39, No. 1.

Attention All Non-Profit Groups in Aging: Come to the United Nations, by Charlie Sabatino, Bifocal, Vol. 38, No. 4.

2016 Year in Review: Human Rights of Older Persons, by Charlie Sabatino, Bifocal, Vol. 38, No. 2.

2015 Year in Review: Human Rights of Older Persons, by Charlie Sabatino, Bifocal, Vol. 37, No. 2.

The Americas Becomes First Region in the World to Have an Instrument for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Older Persons, Bifocal, Vol. 36, No. 5.

International Rights of Older Persons: The Gray Wave, by Charles P. Sabatino, Experience Magazine of the ABA Senior Lawyers Division (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2012)

Additional archived articles on International Rights of Older Persons are available upon request