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TAFTA SUPPORTS AGE WITH RIGHTS CAMPAIGN

he Association for The makers on how to build a
Aged (Tafta) has joined society where older people are
Tthe global movement of valued and are able to enjoy
the Age with Rights campaign to their human rights as they age,”
cast a spotlight on upholding the explained Shamam.
rights of older people.
In rallies hosted at Tafta
As a build up to the next homes, elders gathered together
United Nations annual meeting displaying posters that call
of the Open-Ended Working on government, political
Group on Ageing, the Global figures, service providers and
Alliance for the Rights of Older corporates to ensure that ageing
People (GAROP) placed a call remains on the development
for campaigners around the agenda and to speak out for
world to join a Global Rally in the rights of older people. The
support of the Age with Rights association is encouraging these
campaign. The worldwide rally key stakeholders to attend and
took the form of a virtual 24- TAFTA elders support age with rights campaign voice their opinions in the next
hour event hosted on 3 March United Nations Working Group
2022 across multiple time zones by the United Nations that will rallies at Tafta homes. “Abuse human rights treaties, that are meeting to be held from 11 to
and was an opportunity to 14 April, and to involve and
mobilise support for the call for seek to remedy a fragmented against the elderly through also unclear on how human consult with older people prior
rights apply in older age. By
infringement of their human
a UN Convention on the Rights human rights structure for rights is a global issue with engaging our elders in the Age to the event to ensure inputs
of Older Persons. Older Persons. many elders being subjected with Rights campaign, we are made at the meeting are based
GAROP, together with Tafta CEO, Femada Shamam to violence, malnutrition, hoping to generate support on experiences faced by elders in
numerous global partners, said the organisation had destitution, abandonment, from the government to actively our society. 
including TAFTA, is lobbying joined the movement with neglect, and discrimination. participate in an international,
for the Convention to be a symbolic display of Tafta This is largely due to the lack legally binding Convention. For more information on the Age
with Rights campaign, please visit
proclaimed the next major elders supporting the Age with of explicit references to older In doing so, a framework can www.rightsofolderpeople.org/age-with-
human rights treaty adopted Rights campaign through mini persons’ rights in existing be established to guide policy rights/

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