UN Network on Ageing Newsletter – Issue 61

Upcoming Events

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day – June 15

• Use #WEAAD, #SDGs, #GlobalGoals for all your tweets on the 2018 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
• Celebrating #WEAAD? Planning a special activity? We want to know! Tweet @UN4Ageing or email us at ageing@un.org

9^th Working Session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing (Conference Room 4, UNHQ, New York, 23-26 July 2018)

• For more info, including Proposed Organization of Work, visit http://bit.ly/OpenEndedWorkingGroup9
• NHRI online registration NOW OPEN (deadline 29 June 2018) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NHRIs-OEWG9
• NGO online application for Accreditation NOW OPEN (deadline 29 June 2018) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/oewg9
• Side Event online application NOW OPEN (deadline 2 July 2018) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/oewga9-events
• Use #OEWG9 for all your tweets on the 9^th working session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing

United Nations International Day of Older Persons – 1 October

• The 2018 theme of UNIDOP is “Celebrating Older Human Rights Champions”
• For more info, visit http://bit.ly/UNIDOP2018
• Use #UNIDOP, #SDGs, #GlobalGoals for all your tweets on the 2018 United International Day of Older Persons
• Celebrating #UNIDOP? Planning a special activity? We want to know! Tweet @UN4Ageing or email us at ageing@un.org

Recent Events

High-Level Panel Calls for Anchoring MIPAA in Agenda 2030 and the SDGs
The 3^rd Global Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (New York, 31 January 2018)

• For more info, including High Level Panel presentations, visit http://bit.ly/HLP2018MIPAA
• Missed the event? Watch on-demand at UN Web TV at https://youtu.be/dGoTMfd2QS4
• To read the 3^rd Review and Appraisal Report in all UN official languages, please click http://undocs.org/E/CN.5/2018/4

United Nations Statistics Commission Endorses New Titchfield City Group on Ageing
49^th session of the Statistical Commission (New York, 6-9 March 2018)

• On 9 March 2018, during its 49th session, the Statistical Commission endorsed the proposal to establish a Titchfield City Group on Ageing-related Statistics and Age-disaggregated Data
• To learn more, please visit http://bit.ly/2qLagAq
• Missed the event? Watch on-demand at UN Web TV at http://bit.ly/TitchfieldCG_49SC (1:17)
• Read the UK’s report on the Titchfield City Group http://bit.ly/2HgeJoT
• For more info about how the City Group was proposed visit http://bit.ly/2HkOZDK
• Use #TCGAgeing, #LeaveNoOneBehind for all your tweets on the Titchfield City Group on Ageing

Recent Resolutions, Reports and Publications

Report of the Expert Group Meeting on “Care, and Older Persons: Links to Decent Work, Migration and Gender”
To access the report, please visit http://bit.ly/2FGfCGx
 
Report of the Secretary-General to the fifty-sixth session of the Commission for Social Development (E/CN.5/2018/4)
The report was prepared in response to the request of the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2015/5. It assesses the third review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, at the international level. The report gives an overview of the regional review and appraisal processes and describes overall trends based on an analysis of the outcome of regional reviews and appraisals and highlights continuing gaps in, and challenges to, the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action. To access the report in all UN languages, please visit http://undocs.org/E/CN.5/2018/4

Report on the fifty-sixth session of the Commission for Social Development
The report also includes the draft resolution recommended by the Commission for Social Development to the Economic and Social Council on the “Third review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002”. To access the report in all UN languages, please visit http://undocs.org/E/2018/26
 
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2017 (issued on 17 January 2018): 72/144 Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
To access the resolution in all UN languages, please visit https://undocs.org/A/RES/72/144

UN Focal Point on Ageing Briefing Paper on “Health Inequalities in Old Age”
To access the paper, please visit http://bit.ly/2vyo99S