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 [...]
Age With Rights
COVID-19 shines a sobering spotlight on the deeply rooted discrimination and inequities against old persons worldwide. We can no longer justify inaction [...]
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