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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This leaflet outlines the work of HelpAge International. It explains specific ways HelpAge can help governments, international bodies, NGOs, community groups and academics. It describes the unique worldwide alliance that is HelpAge's network, and how it stands up for the rights of older people.

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This issue sets out the case for a UN convention on older people's human rights, and the need to invest in older people. Other articles cover the right to decent work and show how brutality towards those accused of witchcraft can be stopped. It also describes the expansion of social pension schemes across the world and the activities of self help groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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This background briefing paper argues that the ageing of global populations is a major international challenge. We must invest in new structures and environments for our future ageing societies. Food security and access to decent work and health care are critically important to older people. The promotion of a minimum standard of social protection is recognised as essential for future economic growth and thus recovery from the current financial crisis.

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HelpAge International's new "age helps" position encourages people to re-think their attitudes to ageing. This issue shows how much older people contribute to society and to their own development. You can find out how to apply an "age helps" approach to your own work, and how to spread the message that older people are a positive force for change.

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This issue reports on how migration in former Soviet Union countries means that grandparents are bringing up children; and argues for new approaches to healthcare in developing countries in response to growing numbers of older people. Other articles cover social policy in Africa, pensions in Thailand, rights for older women across the world and working life in Peru, Uganda and Bangladesh.

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