The document discusses the rights of elderly people and an aging global population. It outlines three main categories of rights for elders: protection from abuse, participation in society, and a positive social image. The rights discussed include the right to life, liberty, security, healthcare, adequate living standards, non-discrimination, and freedom from torture. Several international agreements aim to protect and promote elder rights, while more still needs to be done to address discrimination and establish meaningful roles for the growing elderly population worldwide.
2. Older People and Human Right
Over the past several decades a massaive change has
taken place in a key demographic area of the planners
human population : age. the oldest old are the most rapidly
expending segment of the eldery population , currently the
oldest old make up 11 percent of the 60+ age group and will
grow to 19 percent by 2050.
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• more recenly middle age has become recognized as a
distnictive phase and increasingly there is a trend to
differentiate between the young elderly (those aged
between 65 and 74 years) and old elderly (those aged
over 75 years) thre is also the distiniction between the
third age (those aged 50-74 years ) and the fourth age.
4. world aging scenario
• population agening is happening in all regions and in
countries at various levels of development . it is
progressing fastest in developing countries including in
those that also have a large population of young people.
• current 15 countries with more than 10 million older
persons, seven of these are developing countries .
5. Rights of Elders’
The rights of aged persons can be broken down into three
main categories :
1. Protection : refers to secuirng the physical ,
psychological and emotional safety of elderly prersons with
regard to their unique vulnerability to abuse and ill treatment
.
2. Participation : refers to the need to establish a greater
and more active role for older persons in society .
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3. Image : Refers to the need to define a more psitive , less
degrading and discrimatory idea of who elderly persons are
and what they are capable of doing .
7. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The universal declaration asserts that everyone has the :
Right to life , liberty and secuirty of person .
Everyone is entitled to social secuirity .
Realization of any economic, social and cultural rights that
are assential to that individual’s dignity and personality
development .
Every one should have the opportunity to participate in
cultural activities in their community.
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Everyone is entitled to standard of living adequate for
ones’ health and well-being including food, clothing ,
houing and medical care as well as any needed social
services provided by the goverments of nation states.
Most important to elderly perosns , in the event of
unemployement , sickness, disability ,widowhood or old
age , one has the right to secuirity due to circumstances
beyond one’s control.
9. Rights of Elders
Right to life
Rights to liberty
Rights to secuirity
Right to healthcare
Rights to an edequate standard of living
Right to non-discrimination
Rights to participation
Right to be free from torture or cruel in human treatment .
10. Right to life, liberty and secuirity
• The right to life: the right to life is the superme right of
human being , it is basic to all human right and without it
all other rights are without meaning.
• The right to liberty : the right to liberty protects the
physical liberty og the person through a cluster of
interrelated rights.
• The right to secuirty : the right to secuirty is closely
associated with the light to liberty in which context to state
to require to keep its citizens safe, renging from the threat
of domestic violences.
11. Right to health and care
The right to health and care
“The right to health means that governments must generate
comditions in which everyone can be as healthy as possible
such condition range from ensuring availbility of health
services, healthy and safe working conditions ,adequate
housing and nutritious food, the right to health does not
mean the right to be healthy” (WHO)
12. Con..
The human rights to health means that everyone has the
right to the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health, which include access to all medical services ,
sanitation , eduquate food, decent houing , healthy working
conditions, and a clean environment.
13. Right to non-discrimination and
participation
• The right to non-discrimination: Elderly people should
not be though of us useless to society simply because
some of them may need more care than the average
person .
• The right to participation : is sometimes threatened due
to prevailling negative images societies hold of the aged,
the aged are often not given the same opportunities as
others to be productive members of society .
14. Right to be free from torture or cruel in
human treatment
Un-Article 15 freedom from torture or cruel in human
treatment or punishment
1.No ne shall be subjected to torture or to cruel , in human
treatment or punishment , in particular no one shall be
subjected without his /her free consent to medical or
scientific experimentation .
2. states parties shall take all effective legislative ,
adminstrative , judical or other measures to provent persons
with disabilities on equal bases with others.
15. International and Regional instruments for Protection
and Promotion for Elderly
1. Charter of the united nations 91945)(Article 55).
2. Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948(Article
3,22,25,27).
3. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951)
(Article 24)
4. International covenant on econmic, social and cultural
rights (1966) (Article 9,11,12).
5. Declaration on the rights of disabiled persons (1975)
(Article 5,9,10,12)
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6. ILO recomendation No.162 concerning older workers
(1980) sectionII)
7. Declaration inimation of violence against women (1993)
8. Recommendation 1428 on the future senior citizens :
protection, participation and promotion(1999).
9. African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (1981).
10.Arab Charter on Human Rights(1994) (Article 30,38)
11. American Convention on Human Rights (1969)
(Artcile5,6)
17. Remarks
Much is currently being done on an international level to
prepare for the ensuring crisis of our world’s aging
population, it is widely recognized that the eldery are often
victims of discrimination and abuse and that their unique
needs are often not sufficiently met by their governments
and communities.
Additionally, societies have still not clearly estabilished a
new, more active role for our world’s elderly citizens.
