Richard Blewitt, CEO of HelpAge International, shares his personal views on older people’s right to decent work:

1 May is International Workers Day. To mark this HelpAge International has launched a new report, “Forgotten Workforce: Older people and their right to decent work.”

The report details some of the ways in which older people face extremely hard working conditions. “Forgotten Workforce” highlights the scale of work carried out by older people in low and middle income countries and the difficulties they face.

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In the third and final instalment of her video blog from the Czech Republic, Margaret Kabango tells us about her meeting with local NGO Zivot 90 to discuss the decent work for older people project.

Margaret Kabango of Uganda Reach the Aged Association continues her video blog from the Czech Republic. Today, she reports from the conference on development effectiveness for civil society organisations.

Margaret Kabango of Uganda Reach the Aged Association is in the Czech Republic, to get older people’s voices heard at a conference on development effectiveness for civil society organisations.

Margaret will be talking to the Czech Development Agency and Sue Ryder International, about the need to include older people in international development programmes.  She’s also promoting HelpAge’s call for decent work for older people.

Follow Margaret’s progress on her video blog.