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5 - 7 novembre 2019

Legal, Ethical and Social Implications of Ageing and Health

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Introduction:

The impact of population ageing, one of the most defining demographic transformations of this century, is an extraordinary global governance challenge. According to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, in the twenty-first century we will arrive at a place in which there will be older persons in the world than children for the very first time in human history. Globally, the number of older persons in the world’s population is projected to almost triple in the next 30 or so years: from approximately 10% (700 million persons) to 20% (2 billion persons) of the global population and will affect all regions worldwide.

Despite broad consensus on the vulnerability of this large and increasing ageing population, dedicated national and international frameworks for the protection of older persons have been highly limited historically. In order to address this void, in 2015 the UN General Assembly charged the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, established in 2010 to consider to consider the possible content of a multilateral legal instrument to protect the human rights and dignity of older persons. The normative focus of the proposed treaty on human rights of older persons is well established. The multiple challenges faced by older persons worldwide are just as likely to result from societal perception and discrimination as they are from physical and mental conditions. 

This project seeks to address a void in the literature and policy discourse on the proposed treaty by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with backgrounds in international law, public health, medicine, economics and human rights to comprehensively consider the potential content of the treaty with respect to health and how to effectively advance the synergies between health and human rights in the proposed legal instrument. Ageing is intrinsically related to health and an international legal instrument to advance the protection and promotion of the human rights of older persons should address health and healthy ageing at its core.

The impact of population ageing, one of the most defining demographic transformations of this century, is an extraordinary global governance challenge. According to the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, in the twenty-first century we will arrive at a place in which there will be older persons in the world than children for the very first time in human history. Globally, the number of older persons in the world’s population is projected to almost triple in the next 30 or so years: from approximately 10% (700 million persons) to 20% (2 billion persons) of the global population and will affect all regions worldwide.

Despite broad consensus on the vulnerability of this large and increasing ageing population, dedicated national and international frameworks for the protection of older persons have been highly limited historically.  In order to address this void, in 2015 the UN General Assembly charged the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing, established in 2010 to consider to consider the possible content of a multilateral legal instrument to protect the human rights and dignity of older persons.  The normative focus of the proposed treaty on human rights of older persons is well established.  The multiple challenges faced by older persons worldwide are just as likely to result from societal perception and discrimination as they are from physical and mental conditions.  To date, the vast majority of the deliberations of the Open-ended Working Group and the scholarly community on the possible content of the proposed treaty have focused exclusively on gaps in the human rights framework to protect older persons.

This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with backgrounds in international law, public health, medicine, economics and human rights to comprehensively consider the potential content of the treaty with respect to health and how to effectively advance the synergies health and human rights in the proposed legal instrument. Ageing is intrinsically related to health and an international legal instrument to advance the protection and promotion of the human rights of older persons should address health and healthy ageing at its core. 

The workshop will take place over three days, from 5 to 7 November 2019.

Following introductions by the editors that will outline the agenda and goals of the workshop, each author will introduce their paper to the other workshop participants. 

Following each presentation, other workshop participants and the editors will make specific recommendations to each author on how to strengthen their chapter. This process of presentation, general discussion and workshop review and input will take place over the first day and a half. 

In the afternoon of the second day, a general discussion will involve all participants, who will have the opportunity to comment on each other's presentation/chapter. Participants will provide input and feedback on how to strengthen the overall book project and the single contributions.

On the last day the general discussion will focus on the dissemination strategies, on the ways to bring the proposed book to the attention of policy makers in order to make it most influential and impactful. In addition, there will be a specific session that will review the recommendations made by the individual authors for the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing.

Representatives from major international organizations and institutions based in Geneva (WHO, OHCHR, NGO Committee on Ageing, etc.) will be invited to be lunch or dinner speakers. Social time will be used for informal discussion and interaction, and also to explore or plan possible future collaborations.

As a follow up to the workshop, all participants will be invited to submit written comments or feedback within one month. Contributors to the edited book will be invited to submit their revised draft within six months. The editors will review the chapters and provide comments for revision. The publication process will take from six to nine months.

The editors will also condense the individual recommendations for possible publication in the edited book and dissemination to policymakers.