This briefing explains the nature of gender inequality in older age and recommends how the EU's development and external action policies on gender equality and women’s empowerment can be implemented in a way that will benefit all people in older age.
Earlier this month, I attended the intersessional meeting between civil society and the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (OWG) in New York. The OWG is the group of UN member states that is leading the process towards...
Rachel Albone, HelpAge's HIV and AIDS Policy Adviser spent last week at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Here are some of her highlights: Sunday morning: We started with the World Health Organisation (WHO) consultation on Global AIDS...
Older women, people over 70, and older people with disabilities at greater risk.
A delegation from HelpAge International, the Network on Ageing in the USA and Ms Lina and Ms Annie from Ormoc in the Philippines, launched the first Disaster and Age Risk Index today.
The report was unveiled by Annie who untied...
Ninzizi, a Burundi refugee who is mute and has mental illness (c) Ben Small/HelpAge International
Something exceptional is taking place in London on 24th July: the first ever Global Disability Summit.
Co-hosted by the UK and Kenya Governments and the
On 10 December 2013, Human Rights Day celebrates 20 years of the United Nations’ achievements. HelpAge International is marking the occasion with new research that reveals the wide range of human rights violations experienced every day by many older women and men around the world.
This briefing explains the nature of gender inequality in older age and recommends how the EU's development and external action policies on gender equality and women’s empowerment can be implemented in a way that will benefit all people in older age.
Older people in crisis in Lebanon: an urgent need for action
"It's the most beautiful thing there is, to be able to do what I want because I feel free. A person without independence would be as good as dead," a 71-year-old woman from Costa Rica told us.
Being able to...
