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Main Content: Rights

Ageing is both a universal and a personal experience.

The rights and principles we support and deny today are also our rights for the future.

Millions of older people across the world face chronic poverty, untreated illness, homelessness, violence, lack of education, fear and isolation.

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Photo: Antonio Olmos/HelpAge International.

Doña Victoria Mamani lived the last eight years of her life with the awichas (grandmothers) in a communal house in La Paz, Bolivia. She died in 2003 aged 92. The housing programme is run by HelpAge International and helped Doña Victoria escape the poverty that many older women face. We also helped her to access the Bonosol, a non-contributory pension.