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Newsletter | 29 December 2017
Upcoming Events
Expert Group Meeting on Care and Older Persons: Links to Decent Work, Migration and Gender (5-7 December 2017, UNHQ NY)The UN focal point on ageing (UNDESA) is organizing an expert group meeting on “Care and Older Persons: Links to…
20 December 2017
The fifty-sixth session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD56) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 29 January to 7 February 2018. The session will address the 2018 policy cycle’s priority theme “Strategies…
17 December 2017
UN WOMEN and UN DESA Focal Point on Ageing jointly held an interactive brown-bag on 7 December 2017 to discuss “Why we should care? About Long-term Care”.
In the context of rapid population ageing, long-term care (LTC) for older people has become…
11 December 2017
The Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations, in partnership with the Sub-committee on Intergenerational Relationships of the NGO Committee on Ageing in New York, are organizing a side event on the occasion of the International Day of…
15 November 2017
Ageing is one of the “mega-trends” that are likely to condition the prospects for achieving the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2017, there are an estimated 962 million people aged 60 or over in the world, a population…
28 September 2017
The 25th of every month has been designated “Orange Day” by the United Nations Secretary-General’s Campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women, to raise awareness and take action to end violence against women and girls. As a bright and optimistic…
11 September 2017
The theme of International Day of Older Persons 2017 is “Stepping into the Future: Tapping the Talents, Contributions and Participation of Older Persons in Society.”
This year’s day is about enabling and expanding the contributions of older people…
Newsletter | 25 August 2017
Upcoming Events
55th Session of the Commission for Social Development (New York, 1 - 10 February 2017) bit.ly/CSocD55
The priority theme for the 2017-2018 review and policy cycle will be "Strategies for the eradication of poverty to achieve…
Newsletter | 15 August 2017
Upcoming Events
Regional Reviews of the 3rd cycle of Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing
For more information about the review, please visit the Official MIPAA Review and Appraisal Web Page
UNESCAP Asia-Pacific…
21 July 2017
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development sets out a universal plan of action to achieve sustainable development in a balanced manner and seeks to realize the human rights of all people. It calls for leaving no one behind and for ensuring that the…
13 July 2017
The 2030 Agenda sets out a universal plan of action that seeks to eradicate poverty as its overarching goal. It envisions shared prosperity and respect for the human rights of all people. It calls for ensuring that no one is left behind and that the…
07 July 2017
Gender, age and disability inclusive policies based on good disaggregated data are essential to poverty eradication for those older and for people with disabilities. Encouraging developments include: the multiple Indicator Survey on Aging, a new…