This issue of Ageways discusses the effect of discrimination on older women and calls for better data as a starting point for developing more effective programmes.

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This issue shows that older people have a unique perspective on climate change. It also includes news and reviews on health, population ageing, social pensions and the Haiti earthquake.

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This is a summary of Forgotten Workforce: older people and their right to decent work, highlighting the conditions of older workers in low- and middle-income countries

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This report shows that most people in low- and middle-income countries work in old age, often in appalling conditions. It calls for their right to decent work to be protected.

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This publication was produced by 9 NGOs to strengthen understanding and awareness of the need for a special rapporteur and convention on the rights of older people. It aims to provide the arguments and tools for engaging people – from older women and men themselves to civil society organisations to government officials – across the globe in debate about older people’s rights and the role of a convention and special rapporteur. It also suggests ways in which individuals and civil society organisations can promote these new human rights instruments in their countries.

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Our 2015 strategy sets out HelpAge’s global actions and targets to 2015 and how we intend to measure our progress. The strategy explains our approach to our work, emphasising social justice, partnerships, service delivery and policy change. It also explains how we will increase our capacity to deliver and ensure that we are accountable.

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This edition discusses how older people’s organisations can use the media to ensure that older people’s issues are properly reflected in public debate. It shows how organisations have worked successfully with the media, in particular to highlight elder abuse in India and to show the impact of the Age Demands Action campaign. It explains how new technologies are changing the way the media works and sets out practical guidelines on working with the media.

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This paper looks at older people’s experience of climate change, their awareness of it and how it makes them vulnerable. It highlights older people’s exclusion from climate change debates, identifies opportunities for influencing policy-making at the national level and makes recommendations for including older people’s perspectives in discussions and adaptation strategies.

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In 2009, we worked with 225 partners across 41 countries, supported 2,400 older people's groups and reached 1.23m older people. Our support has ranged from helping carers for orphans in Vietnam to get new social security payments, to achieving a 13% increase in the old age allowance in Bangladesh. The recent economic crisis means that the contribution older people to society must be recognised, along with their right to health care, social services and economic security.

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This paper makes it clear that older people's rights are frequently violated and shows how existing rights mechanisms are failing to protect this group. HelpAge International believes that UN member states should discuss creating a new convention on the rights of older people with the appointment of a special rapporteur to monitor it.

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