Older people are also discriminated against for a number of reasons other than age. These include their sex, ethnic origin, where they live, disability, poverty, sexuality or level of literacy. We're fighting to get older people's rights recognised.
There are 69 pages with the tag rights:
- Newsroom / Life stories
- Abdukayum, 68, Tajikistan
- Barnabas, 76, Uganda
- Don Agustin, 77, Peru
- Hadija, early 60s, Tanzania
- Inocencio, 74, and Corina, 64, Colombia
- Meher, 95, Bangladesh
- Mr Thong, 69, Laos
- Nyamizi, 73, Tanzania
- Rights
- Newsroom / Latest news
- ADA 2011: Fighting for rights, pensions and healthcare around the world
- Age Demands Action 2010: Campaigners say 'Put age on the agenda'
- Age United: Older people against age discrimination
- Beijing: 15 years older but any wiser?
- CEDAW adopts general recommendation on the rights of older women
- Celebrating five years of Age Demands Action
- Davos 2012: Older people’s rights at the World Economic Forum
- Global elder abuse must be urgently addressed, says HelpAge
- Ground-breaking research reveals extent of elder abuse as older people campaign for their rights
- Haiti earthquake: Two years on
- HelpAge attends UN meeting to discuss older people's rights
- HelpAge conference shows need to include older people in HIV response
- HelpAge hosts conference on older people's rights
- HelpAge International denounces land-grabbing in Bolivia
- HelpAge receives Hilton Humanitarian Prize
- Human Rights Day: Building support for older people's rights
- Latin American states support call for a convention on the rights of older people
- Older activists demand their rights at the UN
- Older people take part in Kyrgyz police reform
- Older people: Defenders of rights!
- Open-ended Working Group on Ageing: The convention debate continues
- Rio+20: The missing issue of ageing
- UN adopts landmark resolution on older people’s rights
- UN expert says “social pensions are critical to human rights”
- UN Member States move one step closer to a convention
- UN Open-ended Working Group on Ageing: Calling for better protection for older people’s rights
- World Awareness Day: Shining a light on global elder abuse
- World Health Day 2012: Older activists fight for right to healthcare
- Newsroom / Features
- Displaced and invisible in Colombia
- Generation vexed: poor and pensionless
- No Country for Old Women
- Who we are / Our Affiliates
- Affiliates in the Middle East
- Where we work
- Africa
- Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Latin America
- South Asia
- Where we work / Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Moldova
- Where we work / Africa
- Uganda
- Get involved / Campaigns
- Age Demands Action for Rights
- Make it Ageless
- Meet the ADA leaders
- Political supporters
- Sign the ADA petition for a UN convention on the rights of older people
- Towards a Convention
- Get involved
- Campaigns
- What we do / Rights
- Ageing and Development 26: Older people's rights
- Monitoring older people's human rights in Peru, Mozambique and Kyrgyzstan
- Rights abuses: Older people speak out
- Rights policy
- Strengthening older people's rights: Towards a Convention
- The Madrid Plan (MIPAA)
- Towards a convention on the rights of older people
- Why it's time for a convention on the rights of older people
- Women's rights in Tanzania
- Women's rights in Tanzania: Working with communities to stop witchcraft accusations
- What we do
- Rights
- Resources
- Practical guidelines
- test info embed
- Resources / Practical guidelines
- Rights and advocacy guidelines
- What do you think
There are 15 files with the tag rights:
- Briefing: The status of older women
- CEDAW general recommendation No. 27 on older women and protection of their human rights
- Discrimination in old age: multiple, cumulative and on the increase
- Human rights definitions
- Joint statement to UN OEWG on ageing
- OCM guidelines
- OEWG presentation
- Older people, human rights and social protection
- Older women in Beijing: 15 years on
- The right to health in old age: unavailable, inaccessible and unacceptable
- The right to social security in old age: bridging the implementation gap
- UN Women letter
- United Nations General Assembly Follow up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing
- Using the law to tackle accusations of witchcraft: HelpAge International's position
- Violence against older women: tackling witchcraft accusations in Tanzania
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