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Sep 04, 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

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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