Ageing and the protection of human rights: current situation and outlook

This study aims to supplement earlier CELADE (Population Division of ECLAC) contributions to the effort to move towards an international convention on the human rights of older persons. It developes the conceptual and theoretical models underlying efforts to address issues of concern to older persons that are on academic and political agendas, in general, and, in so doing, looks at the biomedical, psychosocial and human-rights considerations involved. This is followed by a general discussion of standards and laws concerning the promotion and protection of the rights of older persons at the international and regional levels, together with an analysis of national laws for the protection of older persons’ rights in Latin America. The study then turns to the arguments for an international convention on the rights of older persons. It closes with a series of proposed measures for promoting the approval of a convention of this nature as viewed from a regional vantage point.

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Ageing and the protection of human rights: current situation and outlook