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Human rights and older persons
Author(s)Astrid Stuckelberger
Corporate AuthorUnited Nations - UN
PublisherUnited Nations, Geneva, 1999
Pages12 pp (GE.99-04231)
SourceUnited Nations Information Service, 8-14 avenue de la Paix, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland.
KeywordsAgeing process ; Rights [elderly] ; International.
AnnotationOlder people's rights must be respected as much as all other human rights. This booklet is a contribution to events marking 1999 as the United Nations International Year of Older Persons. It brings together the relevant economic, social and cultural rights and chief UN documents on ageing: Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: General comments no 6: Economic, social and cultural rights of older persons, 1995 (excerpts); the Vienna International Plan of Action for the Ageing, World Assembly on Ageing, Vienna, 1982 (key points of the 62 recommendations for action); and a chronology of the internationally endorsed policies in relation to older persons. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-991026203 B
ClassmarkBG: IKR: 72 *

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