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International Women's Day, celebrated annually on 8 March, is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women while calling for greater gender equality.

Yesterday, I had the honour of moderating the roundtable debate on ageing and disability with my colleague AK Dube of the African Decade of Persons with Disabilities, as part of this week's meeting of the UN High-level Panel in...

Age Demands Action is only a few weeks away, so here is an update on the exciting work that is going on in the Philippines! 35 older people's associations' leaders from different parts of Metro Manila and nearby regions...

Preparations are well underway for the first World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) that will take place in Istanbul in May 2016.

Tanzania's Economic and Social Research Foundation, in collaboration with HelpAge International, is organising a High Level National Dialogue Forum in Dar es Salaam on Thursday 1 September 2016. It will discuss the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how the commitment to "leave no one behind" has given older people new visibility in the post-2015 process.

Older people are among those worst affected by disasters and more must be done to protect them, according to HelpAge International.

Older people are campaigning for the right to be free from violence and abuse under international law on this World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.