The United Nations Human Rights Council on April 3, 2025, began an intergovernmental process to draft an international human rights treaty on older people. The consensus resolution is an important landmark victory for human rights and multilateralism at a moment of increasing international uncertainty.
Older people around the world experience a wide range of human rights violations on a daily basis. They include violence and mistreatment; age-based discrimination; social, economic, and political exclusion; denial of access to care and support services; inadequate social security; exclusion from climate change responses; and abuses in armed conflict.
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