COVID-19 and Older People’s Rights: Social Connectedness and Belonging

Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed how current human rights standards and practices fall short in protecting older people’s rights. Kim Samuel, Founder and Chief Belonging Officer, Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness; Dr. Henry Shue, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford; Dr. Sharifah Sekalala, Associate Professor, Global Health Law, University of Warwick; and Dr. Kimberley Brownlee, Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political and Social Philosophy, University of British Columbia discussed the idea that all people have a fundamental right to belong – to be fully accepted and valued within the human community and how it deepens the justification for a convention on the rights of older people.

This side event at the 11^th session of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing was moderated by HelpAge International’s Senior Rights Policy Advisor, Bridget Sleap.

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