United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030)

A/RES/75/131View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 131Global health and foreign policy, published in 2020.

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Decides to proclaim 2021–2030 the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing, within existing structures and available resources;

Welcomes the proposal for the Decade of Healthy Ageing, which provides a work programme with voluntary policy options and strategies for use by Governments and other stakeholders, as appropriate, and notes that this is a living document developed through an inclusive, continuous and collaborative process;

Calls upon Member States and other stakeholders to take and strengthen action to prevent, monitor and address the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on older persons, including the particular risks that they face in accessing social protection and health services, and to ensure that health-care decisions affecting older persons respect their dignity and promote their human rights, including the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health;

Recognizes the challenges related to the enjoyment of all human rights that older persons face in different areas and that those challenges require in-depth analysis and action to address protection gaps, and calls upon all States to promote and ensure the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for older persons, including by progressively taking measures to combat age discrimination, neglect, abuse and violence, as well as social isolation and loneliness, to provide social protection, access to food and housing, health-care services, employment, legal capacity and access to justice and to address issues related to social integration and gender inequality through mainstreaming the rights of older persons into sustainable development strategies, urban policies and poverty reduction strategies, bearing in mind the crucial importance of intergenerational solidarity for social development;

Calls upon the World Health Organization to lead the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030), in collaboration with the Department of Social and Economic Affairs of the Secretariat, the regional commissions, the United Nations Population Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) and the World Bank, within their respective mandates, using existing coordination mechanisms such as the Inter-Agency Group on Ageing in line with its mandate, and in consultation with other relevant international and regional organizations and platforms;

Invites Governments and other relevant stakeholders, including international and regional organizations, civil society, the private sector, academia and the media, to actively support the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030), including through voluntary contributions, as appropriate;

Invites the Secretary-General to inform the General Assembly about the implementation of the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030), on the basis of the triennial reports to be compiled by the World Health Organization in 2023, 2026 and 2029.

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