It is apparent that as the global population grows rapidly older, the abuse of the oldest people—most of them women—needs to be addressed first of all by governments. MsReads via pass_blue
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Frances Zainoeddin of the International Federation on Ageing bemoaned the slow gains made by the United Nations General Assembly to ensure the legal protection of older people’s human rights, especially that of women. Here, Zainoeddin is pictured in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood. JOHN PENNEY
The images are stark: In India, Hindu widows who are considered burdens by their families are being abandoned at temples on the banks of sacred rivers. In Ethiopia, homeless older women evicted by their relatives sleep on the steps of a cathedral; many others shelter on the doorsteps of places of worship of all faiths around the world, including in developed countries where government protections fail them.
Over the past two decades, the UN General Assembly has adopted plans to deal with the vulnerabilities hindering the lives of the world’s oldest people, particularly in poor countries. There was the
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