Resources from the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
A Practical Guide to the UN Special Procedures
A guide to the Third Committee of the GA
The ISHR Academy also has a range of useful modules about accessing the UN human rights system and strengthening your UN advocacy skills
Resources from the Universal Rights Group
Human Rights Institutions, mechanisms and processes
A rough guide to the Human Rights Council
A rough guide to the Treaty Bodies
Universal Periodic Review
UN and Human Rights Bodies
Official UN website on Open-ended Working Group on Ageing
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) – Ageing
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Older Persons
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – International Standards
African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
Regional instruments
Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons
National Human Rights Institutions
Global Alliance for National Human Rights Institutions
Information about UN Human Rights and National Human Rights Institutions
Official Documents and UN Processes
International Human Rights Law
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (available in more than 300 languages and dialects)
Human Rights of Older People Source Database:
The database was put together by The Academy of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, which is part of the Washington College of Law in The American University in Washington D.C. Funded by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), this project has captured and made available international, regional and national policy frameworks and laws that pertain to the rights of older people.
Brasilia Declaration:
‘Second Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: towards a society for all ages and rights-based social protection’, ECLAC UN, Brasilia, Brazil, 4–6 December 2007.
Report of the Expert Group Meeting: ‘Rights of Older Persons’: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development, Programme on Ageing, Bonn, Germany, 5–7 May 2009
The Toronto Declaration on the Global Prevention of Elder Abuse, WHO/INPEA, 2002