As an organisation centred on human rights, we at HelpAge International want to put voices and participation of older people at the heart of what we do.
This week, there has been a special focus on older people at the...
A new set of guidelines for civil society organisations wishing to influence their governments to support a convention has been launched.
A new study by HelpAge International and Handicap International has found a significant disparity between the needs of older people and people with disabilities and the level of humanitarian assistance delivered to meet their needs.
Barriers older people face to enjoying their right to health and how we can drive progress.
"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...
Professor Ian Linden is Policy Director at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. "Family" is a term that prospers from vagueness. It invariably gets a good press from religious leaders and politicians and a not so good one from psychiatrists...
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
To mark World AIDS Day, HelpAge International is hosting a two-day conference, "HIV and Ageing in Africa" in Ethiopia in partnership with UNAIDS, WHO and the University of Sydney.
As world population reaches seven billion (31 October), HelpAge International applaud the United Nations Population Fund, (State of the World Population, 2011) for dispelling harmful myths about ageing.
By Eduardo Klien, Regional Representative for East Asia and Pacific: China never ceases to amaze me. The China I first visited in 1998 is very different from the one we see nowadays. This is one of the most radical...
