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Key Messages: Strengthening Older People’s Rights: Towards a UN Convention By Bridget Sleap, HelpAge International March 2010 1. A society for all ages can only be achieved if, and once, the rights of older women and men are fully realized. Today’s children and younger adults are tomorrow's older people and so strengthening older women and men’s rights is in the interests of everyone. 2. Older women and men have the same rights as everyone else. Equality does not change in old age. 3. Older women and men around the world face age discrimination and are denied their rights on a regular basis. This is completely unacceptable. Older women’s well being is doubly jeopardized when they are subjected to both age and gender discrimination. 4. Older people will outnumber children for the first time in history 2040. The world is ageing at a rate that is unprecedented, without parallel in human history so the numbers of people facing age discrimination is likely to increase. 5. Existing human rights instruments do not provide adequate legal protection of the rights of older people. 6. In practice, older women and men’s rights are not being adequately addressed or protected through the existing human rights system. 7. The time has come for a special rapporteur and a convention on the rights of older people. These new human rights instruments would help change attitudes towards older women and men and increase their visibility. A new convention would also clarify government responsibilities towards older women and men, improve accountability and provide a framework for policy and decision making.
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