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

"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.

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.

Report of the Secretary-General to the Commission for Social Development

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 2011 in New York under the theme of "Launch of Madrid+10: The Growing Opportunities and Challenges of Global Ageing".

Report of the Secretary-General to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly

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 meetings.

Issue 61,  April 2018

Issue 60, December 2017

Issue 59, August 2017