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UN Human Rights Council: We Need a Treaty for the Rights of Older People | WHO: Interview with Steve MacFeely on the GIS Conference | Twitter Space: Social Media for Government Leaders

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UN Human Rights Council: We Need a Treaty for the Rights of Older People | WHO: Interview with Steve MacFeely on the GIS Conference | Twitter Space: Social Media for Government Leaders

Grab your calendars: Twitter Space on Social Media for Gov 8 Sept, HRC Calls for a Legally Binding Instrument to Protect the Rights of Older People, WHO Participates at the GIS Conference in New York

Sep 4, 2022
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"What gets measured gets improved and we don't measure the impact of ageism. There are no explicit guarantees against ageism and age discrimination and no clear obligations on States to eliminate it..." #Ageism
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What gets measured gets improved and we don't measure the impact of ageism. There are no explicit guarantees against ageism and age discrimination and no clear obligations on States to eliminate it says @krabheru of @GAROP_Sec https://t.co/r6V4QFixGt
8:29 AM ∙ Aug 30, 2022

UN Human Rights Council Wants to End Ageism

Ambassador Villegas Calls for a Convention to Protect the Rights of Older People

It is about time, the HRC met this past week to discuss a very important topic, often neglected. You see job adverts listing every category of diversity required, but age is often not listed. For real. Check. Gasp! Even the UN jobs website is also guilty of age discrimination. Age is not mentioned at all.

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