Equal treatment, equal rights

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Equal treatment, equal rights Realising older
peoples rights
Richard Blewitt, Chief Executive Officer HelpAge
International 9th February 2007
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A tripartite package to reduce poverty and
realise older peoples rights

• Universal social pension
• 2. Free healthcare
• 3. Non-discriminatory laws

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Give older people an identity
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Make older people visible in data
Source Bolivia Caracteristicas socioeconomicos
de la población adulta mayor, MECOVI 2001,
HelpAge International Bolivian National
Institute of Statistics, La Paz, 2002
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Support older people to advocate for their rights
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Integrate older peoples rights into other policy
processes

• Millennium Development Goals
• Poverty Reduction Strategies
• Decent Work Agenda

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Further steps to realising older peoples rights

• International assistance to support programmes
  to
• realise older peoples rights
• Address older peoples rights in the UN human
  rights
• system

 
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