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UN Photo1st Meeting, Organizational Meeting of Intergovernmental Working Group on older persons
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The Intergovernmental Working Group on older persons is an open-ended intergovernmental body. Its primary mandate is to elaborate a comprehensive, internationally 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.
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Item 1: Opening of the Session
Opening Remarks:
Item 2: Election of Chair
Item 3: Adoption of agenda
Item 4: Interactive Discussions
Panel 1: Setting the scene
View moreView less- Ms. Nada Al Nashif, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights
Opening Remarks:
- H.E. Mr. Carlos Mario Foradori, Ambassador of Argentina
- H.E. Ms. Anita Pipan, Ambassador of Slovenia
- H.E. Mr. Luis Gallegos, President of Global Initiative on Ageing & Longevity (GIA)
Item 2: Election of Chair
- H.E. Mr. Carlos Mario Foradori, Chair rapporteur of the the Intergovernmental Working Group on older persons 2026
Item 3: Adoption of agenda
Item 4: Interactive Discussions
Panel 1: Setting the scene
- H.E. Mr. Randolph de Battista, Moderator, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Malta
- Ms. Claudia Mahler, UN Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of all Human Rights by Older Persons
- Hon. Commissioner Gloria Monique de Mees, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Hon. Commissioner Marie Louis Abomo, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Ms. Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes, Former UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Disability and Accessibility
- Prof. Aoife Nolan, President of the European Committee of Social Rights
- Ms. Rose Gahire, Chair, Global Alliance for the Rights of Older People (GAROP)
- Mr. Himanshu Rath, Agewell Foundation