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A/80/147 - Released on 5 August 2025 11:55 PM EDT: The report analyzes how commitments from the World Summit for Social Development align with current demographic realities as Member States prepare for the Second World Summit for Social Development (4–6 November 2025, Doha). It focuses on the three pillars of social development—poverty eradication, productive employment, and social integration—highlighting policy priorities such as strengthening care systems, adapting to technological change (including AI), preparing for climate-related shocks, combating age-based discrimination, promoting lifelong learning, fostering age-inclusive workforces, and enhancing community participation. Emphasizing the perspective of population ageing and the contributions of older persons, it also provides recommendations for mainstreaming ageing in social development, advancing the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, and addressing ageing-related issues not explicitly covered at the upcoming Summit.
Ageing General Assembly
Reports
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing: Report of the Secretary-General
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing
The report provides an overview of the application of the concept of intergenerational solidarity across public policy domains, highlighting opportunities and challenges for current and future generations of older persons. The report covers selected work carried out by members of the Inter-Agency Group on Ageing. Key recommendations for consideration by Member States are set out in the concluding section.
Please click on the report link above for the full resolution, which is available in all six UN official languages.
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing - 2023 Report
The report provides an update on progress made since 2015 towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular its aspects of relevance to older persons and population ageing. The report highlights key issues and challenges in the full and effective inclusion of older persons in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It also features selected work carried out by the Inter-Agency Group on Ageing. Key recommendations for consideration by Member States are set out in the concluding section.
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing - 2022 Report
The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 76/138 on the follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing. It provides an analysis of the impact of digital technologies on older persons and identifies the policy implications for older persons of the report of the Secretary-General entitled “Road map for digital cooperation: implementation of the recommendations of the High - level Panel on Digital Cooperation” (A/74/821). It also features selected work carried out by the United Nations system on ageing and older persons. The report concludes with key recommendations for consideration by the Assembly.
Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing - 2021 Report
The report provides an analysis of the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on older persons and serves to explore pathways to ensure that older persons are better incorporated into efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic in various policy areas. It also features selected work carried out by the United Nations system on ageing and older persons. The report contains key recommendations for consideration by the Assembly
Resolutions
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2025
This resolution reaffirms the Political Declaration and the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (2002) as the global framework for addressing population ageing, while recognizing that awareness and implementation remain uneven across regions. It highlights the rapid growth of the global older population—particularly in developing countries—and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19, poverty, ageism and discrimination on older persons, especially older women and persons with disabilities. The resolution underscores the need to integrate ageing issues into the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, strengthen intergenerational solidarity, and recognize older persons as active contributors to sustainable development and social cohesion rather than passive recipients of care.
The General Assembly calls on Member States to adopt age-inclusive, rights-based and gender-responsive policies that combat ageism, expand social protection and pension coverage, ensure access to healthcare and long-term care, close digital divides, and promote the full, effective and meaningful participation of older persons in all spheres of life. It emphasizes improved data collection and disaggregation, stronger institutional frameworks, and inclusive policymaking involving older persons themselves. The resolution also stresses the importance of international cooperation, capacity-building and adequate financing to support national implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, while reaffirming the central role of the Commission for Social Development and the UN system in monitoring progress and advancing the human rights of older persons.
Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
Consideration of decision 14/1 of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, entitled “Recommendations regarding the identification of possible gaps in the protection of the human rights of older persons and how best to address them”
Recalling its resolution 65/182 of 21 December 2010, in which it established 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, as well as all its subsequent resolutions on the follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, including resolution 78/177 of 19 December 2023...Please click on the report link above for the full resolution, which is available in all six UN official languages.