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This book has explored soft law and hard law forming the frameworks for older persons’ human rights. It has also discussed how these laws could apply to older people, even if there has not been international agreement that these laws apply.
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Israel Doron, Itai Apter, The Debate Around the Need for an International Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, The Gerontologist Vol. 50, No. 5, 586–593.
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See, for example, the NGO Thematic Shadow Report on Older Women’s Rights in Tanzania, 2008, submitted to CEDAW with 13 Tanzanian organizations, http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cedaw/docs/ngos/HAITanzania41.pdf (last visited Feb. 27, 2015).
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Working Group on Protection of the Human Rights of Older Persons, at http://www.oas.org/consejo/cajp/personas%20mayores.asp.
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3rd Session of the AU Conference of Ministers of Social Development, Africa’s Common Position on Human Rights of Older Persons in Africa, available at http://social.un.org/ageing-working-group/documents/africa-older-persons2012.pdf (last visited Feb. 27, 2015).
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Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)2 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the Promotion of the Human Rights of Older People, available at http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/hrpolicy/other_committees/cddh-age/default_EN.asp (last visited Feb. 27, 2015).
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UN website, Global Issues, Ageing: http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/ageing/.
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See Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 12, available at http://www.un.org/en/events/pastevents/pdfs/Madrid_plan.pdf (last visited Oct. 27, 2014).
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UN, Follow-up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, A/RES/65/182, available at http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/65/182 (last visited Feb. 27, 2015).
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UNFPA, HelpAge International, Ageing in the 20th Century: A Celebration and a Challenge, 2012, “there is still scant evidence of resource allocation to support implementation of policies on ageing” at 107, available at http://www.helpage.org/download/5059f6a23af15 (last visited Feb. 27, 2015).
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Israel Doron, Itai Apter, The Debate Around the Need for an International Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, supra note 1.
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HelpAge International, International human rights law and older people: Gaps, fragments and loopholes, 2012, http://social.un.org/ageing-working-group/documents/GapsinprotectionofolderpeoplesrightsAugust2012.pdf (last visited Oct. 27, 2014).
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See OEWG Chairman’s Report, April 2011, at 9, available at http://social.un.org/ageing-working-group/documents/chairmans%20-%205%20May.pdf (last visited Oct. 27, 2014).
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HelpAge International, International Human Rights Law and Older People: Gaps, Fragments and Loopholes, supra note 11, at 2.
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Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (E/2012/51), April 2012, pursuant to General Assembly resolution 48/141.
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Martin, C., Rodriguez-Pinzon, D., Brown, B. (2015). Conclusion. In: Human Rights of Older People. Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, vol 45. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7185-6_7
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