Follow-Up to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing

A/RES/59/150View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 95 Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons : 2nd World Assembly on Ageing, published in 2005.

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 subjects does this mandate have?

19 subjects

Ageing Ageing Persons Capacity Building Decision-Making Demographic Ageing Developing Countries Economic Assistance Focal Points Functional Commissions Information Exchange Non-Governmental Organizations Popular Participation Population Programmes Programme Implementation Programmes of Action Project Appraisal Regional Commissions Report Preparation Research

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Recommends that ongoing efforts to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,⁴ take into account the situation of older persons;

⁴See resolution 55/2.

Calls upon Governments and the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, within their mandates, and encourages the non-governmental community, to ensure that the challenges of population ageing and the concerns of older persons are adequately incorporated into their programmes and projects;

Invites Member States and the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to take into account the needs and concerns of older persons in decision-making at all levels;

Stresses the need for additional capacity-building at the national level in order to promote and facilitate the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002,⁵ and in this connection, encourages Governments to support the United Nations Trust Fund for Ageing to enable the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat to provide expanded assistance to countries, upon their request;

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.

Invites Governments, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations to encourage and support comprehensive, diversified and specialized research on ageing in all countries;

Invites the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council to integrate the issues of population and individual ageing into their work in order to promote the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action;

Recommends that the Commission on the Status of Women continue to consider the situation of older women, in particular those who are most vulnerable, including those living in rural areas;

Encourages those regional commissions that have not yet done so to elaborate a regional strategy for the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action;

Takes note of Commission for Social Development resolution 42/1,2 and in this context requests the Secretary-General to present his proposals for conducting the review and appraisal exercise at the regional and global levels to the Commission at its forty-fourth session;

Requests the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to continue to strengthen the capacity of the focal points on ageing and to provide them with adequate resources for the further implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action, in particular through appropriate mainstreaming action;

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 system 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;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General,⁶ and requests that it be forwarded to the Commission for Social Development at its forty-third session in order to assist the Commission in its deliberations;

⁶A/59/164.

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the present resolution.

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