I recently attended the tenth Southern African Development Community (SADC) Civil Society Forum conference in Harare, Zimbabwe. Our partner, Zimbabwe Older Persons Organization (ZOPO) also took part, representing older people in Southern Africa. The foru
It has been extremely difficult to get hold of all the items we need to distribute to older people but we have managed it. One time I went out, shooting started all around me and 24 people died in that...
Today, 19 August, is World Humanitarian Day - the day in 2003 when 22 aid workers were killed when the UN headquarters in Baghdad were bombed. It's a day to an occasion to remember all the people who have lost...
Mr Shehada is 74 and an ADA leader living in Gaza. A member of the Arab Union of Writers and the Palestinian Writers and Journalists Union, Mr Shehada has spent years campaigning for the most vulnerable. He is a...
I crossed into Gaza on Wednesday and visited one of the worst hit areas – Shejaiya, in Gaza City – where relatives of our Security and Logistics Officer, Muaid, live. He and his wife hosted 36 family members in...
Older activists including Jamaica's Kenneth Hemley united to lobby for a UN convention on the rights of older people in July. Kenneth, 73, travelled to the United Nations in New York to present the almost 300,000-signature (and thumbprint) petition...
The 20th International AIDS Conference concluded in Melbourne, Australia a few days ago. Many would say that the conference was a major step towards the "end of AIDS by 2030" target set up by UNAIDS and other global stakeholders...
Marking a good week for HelpAge's work on HIV, the WHO's Global Update on the Health Sector Response to HIV, that was launched last week recognises the health-related challenges faced by people in their 50s and older living with...
HelpAge International's CEO, Toby Porter, has previously written about "daring to dream about Sustainable Development Goals being for people of all ages, including those in older age". I have just returned from New York where I attended the last...
UNAIDS has launched its annual global report, the "UNAIDS Gap Report". For the first time there is a dedicated section on people aged 50 and over which explores what it means to be an older person living with HIV....
It was very exciting to meet Rosita Kornfeld Matte, the new Independent Expert on the full enjoyment of the human rights of all older persons and her assistant Carmen Luz Bellotti in Santiago, Chile last week. Rosita only took...
In May, I posted a blog which dared us all to dream about ageing being recognised in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and preventing older people from again being left behind. I wanted to give a quick update as...
