The Work Begins — Reflections on the First Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Human Rights of Older Persons
The inaugural session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Human Rights of Older Persons marks the beginning of a new phase [...]
Voices of Older Chinese Canadians: Dignity Through an Ethnocultural Lens
As work begins on drafting a UN Convention on the rights of older persons, an important question emerges: how do ethnocultural backgrounds [...]
Social Development Cannot Succeed Without Older Persons
Recognizing the Older Person in Social Development Who is the older person in our current narrative of social development? Someone leaning on [...]
Between Promise and Practice: Reflections from HRC60
From the floor of HRC60, this reflection shows how ideals meet reality — where progress and struggle coexist, calling for deeper resolve, [...]
Human Rights Day 2024
Age Knowble Human Rights Day 2024
Singing and Dancing for Their Rights
Elder abuse is heart-wrenching. Underscoring the harm and tragic narratives is a violation of the older person’s human right to be freed [...]
Leaps versus Strides Forward on Human Rights of Older People
It was Sunday morning during the Memorial Day weekend. I walked down Third Avenue amidst the warm breeze and bustling sounds of [...]
Mainstreaming versus UN Convention
Some public policymakers see the mainstreaming of the older person and aging into existing human rights instruments as the way forward. The [...]
Global Rally for a UN Convention on the Rights of Older People
Rally for the Rights of Older People There is a global movement centered on human rights in older age. This movement is [...]
UN Convention and the Older Person
United Nations (UN) Conventions A UN convention is an international treaty that binds countries once adopted at the UN General Assembly and [...]
Washroom Bill of Rights
Afraid to go out – No Public Washrooms! “I am afraid to go out to out. There are no public washrooms. I [...]
International Day of Older Persons 2022
On this International Day of Older Persons, I celebrate our older people and their resilience. I am grateful for their [...]
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