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The General Assembly adopted resolution on Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
At the 50th plenary meeting of the General Assembly held on 19 December 2023, the Rapporteur of…
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Commission for Social Development adopts resolution on second review and appraisal of the Madrid Plan
During its 49th session, the Commission for Social Development adopted draft resolution E/CN.5/2011/L.3 entitled "Modalities of the second review…
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New web-site of the UN Programme on Ageing
The newly designed web-site provides information about global demographic ageing and older persons around the world as well as a variety of ageing-related UN documents, publications, events and…
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Report of the Secretary-General to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly
The most recent report of the Secretary-General entitled " Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing" has been issued and is available at the UN Programme on…
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International Day of Older Persons 2011
The International Day of Older Persons will be celebrated on 1 October 2011.
The Day will be commemorated on 3 October 2011 in Geneva under the theme of "Active and Healthy Ageing 2012" and on 6 October…
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Report of the Secretary-General to the Commission for Social Development
The Commission for Social Development will hold its 50th session on 1-10 February 2012. A report of the Secretary-General entitled "Second review and appraisal of the Madrid…
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Commission for Social Development
The 50th session of the Commission for Social Development was convened from 1 to 10 February 2012 in New York. For statements, summaries of debate and other information, please click here.
Open-ended Working Group…
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General Assembly resolution on older persons
Resolution A/RES/66/127 entitled "Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing" is now available online.
Update on UN regional review and appraisal meetings
Information about all five UN regional…
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"Interactive Training Workshop" for the Second Review and Appraisal of the Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing in Africa
The report of the Training Workshop, which was organized jointly by UN-DESA and UN-ECA is available online.
Expert Group Meeting on…
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Third working session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons
The third session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing will be held from Tuesday, 21, to Friday…
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Chair's summary of third working session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons
The third session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing was held from 21-24…
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The UN Population Division created a new website "Population Dynamics Consultation", which went public last week. The idea of the site is to provide a forum to solicit input from a vast array of stakeholders about the role of population dynamics,…