Автор Liz Mestheneos дата 19.09.2012 город Уфа

1. Agenda
HUMAN RIGHTS - EQUAL
OPPORTUNITIES AND AGEING
Dr. E. Mestheneos,
Regional Vice President, Europe
International Federation on Ageing

2. WHO IS THE IFA
o An international non-governmental
organization -- established in 1973
o Membership: NGOs, the corporate
sector, academia, government, and
individuals --international
o Concerned with generating positive
change for older people worldwide by :
stimulating, collecting, analyzing, and
disseminating information on rights,
policies, and practices that improve the
quality of life of people as they age. for
older people globally.

3. ISSUES FOR OLDER PEOPLE
• Opportunities for employment
• Age Discrimination • Adequate incomes - (Help age
• Poverty International - 4/5 older people
in the world still have no
• Care needs pensions - but check poverty -
• Social exclusion rates- Millenium Development
Goals
• Access to goods and • Decent long term care
services • Opportunities for education and
• Ageism life long learning
• Social inclusion - age friendly
communities, media,
intergenerational programmes.

4. INTERNATIONAL ACTION
o Since 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights -
for everyone- but realization that the Declaration
inadequate and ineffective for certain groups.
o UN Principles for older people 1991 - Rights of older people
for
Independence
Participation
Care
Self fulfillment
Dignity
o IFA Secretariat 1990 produced a Declaration as one of the
bases for the UN documents
o Development of other Conventions e.g. to cover women
and disabled- CEDAW, disabled, children.

5. Actions
o Development of discussions and “soft” law – Vienna (1982), UN Year
(1990); Madrid International Plan of Ageing (2002) where national
governments agreed to monitoring and protecting the rights of older
people.
o 2010 Creation of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on the Rights of
Older people - includes representatives of UN Member States and
NGOs.
o Open-ended Working Group on Ageing - NGO delegation formed an
alliance “The Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People” - AARP,
Global Action on Ageing. HelpAge International, International
Association of Gerontology, IFA, Int. Network prevention of Elder
Abuse, (INPEA), AGE UK, IAHASA, ILC Global Alliance - and in the most
recent meeting they were joined by AGE Platform Europe. (August
2012). They have a clear statement supporting a new Convention.
o http://www.rightsalliance.org/index.php/en/about-us

6. Secretariat- International Federation on Ageing
351 Christie Street, 1st Floor. Toronto, ON M6G 3C3 Canada
www.ifa-fiv.org
ifa@ifa-fiv.org