United Nations UN and WHO Resolutions and Declarations Resolutions and Declarations on Older Persons 20 December 2012 Resolution

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The resolution adopted by the 67th UN General Assembly on issues related to a comprehensive and integral international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons.

The General Assembly decides that the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, which shall be
open to all Member States and observers of the United Nations, shall consider proposals for an international legal instrument to promote and protect the rights and dignity of older persons, based on the holistic approach in the work carried out in the fields of social development, human rights and non-discrimination, as well as gender equality and the empowerment of women, and taking into account the inputs of the Human Rights Council, the reports of the Working Group and the recommendations of the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on the Status of Women, as well as the contributions from the second global review and appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002.

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