Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group for the Elaboration of a Legally Binding Instrument on the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons

A/HRC/RES/58/13View PDF

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A document of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, published in 2025.

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Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Human rights mainstreaming, right to development, and research and analysis	108	—

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Ageing Persons Human Rights International Instruments Working Groups

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Decides to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group with the mandate of elaborating and submitting to the Human Rights Council a draft international legally binding instrument on the human rights of older persons with the objective of promoting, protecting and ensuring the full enjoyment of human rights by older persons;

Also decides that the working group will meet for two five-day sessions each year in Geneva in a hybrid format, should the General Assembly agree to reintroduce such a format, and that will be webcast, and that the organizational session should be held before the end of 2025 and no later than the start of the sixty-first session of the Human Rights Council, for three working days;

Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the open-ended intergovernmental working group with all the assistance necessary for the effective fulfilment of its mandate;

Calls upon States, the High Commissioner and the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons to hold virtual regional meetings or seminars to contribute to the work of the open-ended intergovernmental working group;

Calls upon the working group to take into account the inputs from all stakeholders, the findings and recommendations of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, the relevant reports of the Secretary-General, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and of the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, and the work of other relevant international and regional human rights bodies and mechanisms;

Invites States, relevant United Nations organizations, agencies, funds and programmes, national human rights institutions, civil society, especially older persons and their representative organizations, to contribute actively and constructively to the work of the working group;

Calls upon the working group to encourage and promote the meaningful participation and engagement of older persons and their representative organizations from all regional groups, in an inclusive manner, and in particular to give older persons the opportunity to express their views on the topic and substance of the proposed international legally binding instrument;

Requests the working group to submit a report on progress made to the Human Rights Council for its consideration at its sixty-third session, and to make the report available in an easy-to-read accessible format.

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