Follow-Up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing

A/RES/58/134View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 107 Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

23 versions · 2003–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/179

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/179	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	6,065	95%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/147	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	5,849	87%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/177	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	6,041	91%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/190	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	5,815	94%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/138	Follow-up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing	5,464	83%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

20 reports · 2006–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/212	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/179
2025	A/80/147	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/147
2024	A/79/157	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/177
2023	A/78/134	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/190
2022	A/77/134	Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/138

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;⁴

⁴A/58/160.

Also takes note of the road map for the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, contained in the report of the Secretary-General;

Invites Member States and the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to incorporate ageing, as appropriate, into actions to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,Error: Reference source not found in particular the goal on the eradication of poverty;

Stresses the need for action at the national and international levels to implement the Madrid Plan of Action,⁵ including the need to set national and international priorities and to select appropriate approaches to ensure that countries achieve a society for all ages;

⁵Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8–12 April 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II.

Encourages the establishment of institutional linkages at the national level between national machineries for the advancement of women and those governmental entities responsible for the development, implementation and coordination of ageing-related policies and programmes;

Stresses that the role of civil society, including non-governmental organizations, is important in supporting Governments in their implementation and assessment of and follow-up to the Madrid Plan of Action;

Requests the Economic and Social Council to consider ageing when elaborating its list of cross-sectoral thematic issues common to the outcomes of major United Nations conferences and summits for the establishment of the multi-year programme of work for the coordination segment of its substantive session;

Requests the Commission for Social Development to integrate an ageing perspective in its consideration of priority themes related to the follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development;

Requests the Commission for Social Development and the Commission on the Status of Women to further coordinate and collaborate through their respective bureaux on the issue of older women within the framework of their respective multi-year programmes of work;

Recalls, in this regard, its request to each functional commission of the Economic and Social Council to examine its methods of work in order to better pursue the implementation of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits, recognizing that there is no need for a uniform approach since each functional commission has its own specificity, while noting that modern methods of work can better guarantee the review of progress made in implementation at all levels, on the basis of a report containing recommendations to be submitted by the Secretary-General to each functional commission and relevant subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council on its methods of work, in accordance with the provisions defined by the respective outcomes and relevant decisions taken by each body, bearing in mind the progress recently achieved in this regard by certain commissions, in particular the Commission on Sustainable Development, and recalling that the functional commissions and other relevant bodies of the Council should report to it no later than 2005 on the outcome of this examination;

Requests the Commission for Social Development to take up the issue of the periodicity and the format of the review of the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action at its forty-second session, taking into account the provisions of resolution 57/270 B;

Stresses the importance of the collection of data and population statistics disaggregated by age and sex on all aspects of policy formulation by all countries, and encourages the relevant entities of the United Nations to support national efforts in capacity-building, especially those of developing countries and countries with economies in transition, takes note in this context of the establishment by the United Nations of an Internet-accessible database on ageing, and invites States to submit, whenever possible, information for inclusion in the database;

Requests the Statistical Commission to assist Member States in developing modalities for disaggregating data by age and sex;

Requests the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and the specialized agencies to integrate ageing, including from a gender perspective, into their programmes of work and to report on their progress to the Commission for Social Development;

Invites the international financial institutions and the regional development banks to take older persons into account in their policies and projects as part of the effort to assist developing countries and countries with economies in transition in the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action;

Recommends that the institutional linkages between United Nations gender focal points and focal points on ageing be strengthened in order to enhance the integration of the gender aspects of ageing within the system;

Welcomes the progress made in the work of some of the regional commissions in implementing the objectives and recommendations of the Madrid Plan of Action, and encourages other regional commissions to make progress in this regard;

Requests the Secretary-General to forward his reportError: Reference source not found to the Commission for Social Development at its forty-second session and to make available any other relevant information related to this issue that may assist the Commission in its deliberations;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

Follow-Up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing

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