International Year of Older Persons : towards a society for all ages

International Year of Older Persons: towards a society for all ages

Calls upon States to include a gender dimension in their national programmes for the Year; emphasizes that activities for the Year should be initiated primarily at the national level; requests the Secretary-General to officially launch the International Year for Older Persons in 1998, on the occasion of the International Day of the Older Persons; decides to devote 4 plenary meetings at its 54th session to the follow-up to the Year, which should take place at an appropriate global policy-making level.

Adopted without vote, 36th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1997, New York, 23 Jan. and 4-7 Feb. 1997; resumed organizational session for 1997, New York, 1 and 2 May 1997; substantive session of 1997, Geneva, 30 June-25 July 1997; resumed substantive session of 1997, New York, 8 Oct. and 16 and 18 Dec. 1997 - E/1997/97 - p. 40-41 - (ESCOR, 1997, Suppl. no. 1).