Key International Documents on Ageing

Key Documents On Ageing Issues:

View Resources

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: https://ngocoany.org/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

View 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

View Resources

View Resources