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Rights for the invisible — older people and the Human Rights Project
Author(s)	Valerie Lipman
Journal title	Generations Review, vol 15, no 4, October 2005
Pages	pp 42-47
Source	(Editorial e-mail address) gr@ageing.ox.ac.uk
Keywords	Attitudes to the old of general public ; Rights [elderly] ; International.
Annotation	This paper looks at three key documents: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Article 25 of the UDHR incorporates older people as "having the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being ...", while the two International Covenants, both adopted in 1986, still make no reference to older people. The author outlines how concern by the United Nations (UN) for ageing issues came to the fore at the first World Assembly on Ageing in Vienna in 1982. Since then, the UN has included references to older people in other protocols and covenants. In line with other conventions on the rights of the child, women, refugees and migrant workers, those on the Committee on Ageing are pressing for a convention on the rights of older people. Until then, the world's older people are broadly invisible in the human rights project. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-051122208 A
Classmark	TOB: IKR: 72
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