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10 December 2023 This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document embodies humanity’s hope and commitment to a set of fundamental rights and freedoms to which all individuals are entitled. Today, we celebrate its [...]

Statement from the GAROP Steering Group on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2023 Governments must address gaps and limitations in the international human rights framework to tackle elder abuse world-wide [Download this statement as a PDF document here] Violence against older persons is [...]

The Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People (GAROP) is seeking a freelance consultant to undertake project and administrative work for the GAROP Secretariat on a part-time basis up to the end of September 2023. This is a great opportunity for an organised [...]

Our work campaigning for a new United Nations (UN) convention on the rights of older people recently took an exciting turn with the adoption of a decision (A/AC.278/2023/L.1/Rev.1) on 6th April 2023 by the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWG) of the United [...]

Take action now! Email your Foreign Ministry and Permanent Mission in New York At the 12th Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWG) session in April 2022, Argentina made a proposal to establish an informal cross-regional core group and invited Member States committed to [...]

The much-anticipated report of the August 2022 multi-stakeholder meeting on the human rights of older people has just been published! States, in cooperation with civil society, national human rights institutes, the United Nations and older persons, should develop and adopt a comprehensive convention [...]