World Assembly on the Elderly

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Ageing Persons Conferences International Years Programmes of Action Social Security

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Decides to organize, in consultation with Member States, specialized agencies and organizations concerned, a World Assembly on the Elderly in 1982, as a forum to launch an international action programme aimed at guaranteeing economic and social security to older persons, as well as opportunities to contribute to national development;

Decides to consider at a later stage the feasibility of observing an international year of the elderly, giving due consideration to the report of the Secretary-General requested in Economic and Social Council decision 1978/ 4 7 of 1 August 1978;

as Resolution 2542 (XXIV).

3 9 A/33/265.

Requests the Secretary-General to elaborate, in consultation with Member States, the specialized agencies and organizations concerned, and to submit

through the Economic and Social Council, a draft programme for the World Assembly on the Elderly and to make recommendations on the organization and objectives of the World Assembly;

Recommends that Member States, in formulating their comments on the draft programme, should include, inter alia, attention to categorizing and analysing the problems of elderly persons in their societies;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fifth session the item entitled "Problems of the elderly and the aged", under which the report of the Secretary-General on the World Assembly on the Elderly would be considered.

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40 See Official Records of the Ecunumic and Social Council, Sixty-second Session, Suppleme11t No. 6 (E/5927), chap. XXT,

41 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, sect. A.

1978, Supplement No. 4 (E/1978/34), chap. XXVI, sect. A.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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