The 61st Session of the United Nations Commission for Social Development will bring together governments, NGOs, businesses and experts from all over the world from 6 to 15 February 2023.
Among the 4 specific areas that will be discussed, the issue of ageing and progress regarding the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA), will be addressed during a high‐level panel discussion and side event on Wednesday 8th February. The side event ‘MIPAA at 20: fit for the future?’ will build on the deliberations of the High-Level Panel discussion on the Fourth Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action that precedes it. It will invite Member States, United Nations representatives and civil society stakeholders to share their vision on what is needed at both international and national levels, to strengthen the international agenda on ageing going forward.
More specifically, the side event invites participants to discuss the success, the challenges and future of MIPAA and how synergies in the global implementation of MIPAA, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing and the human rights of older persons can be achieved and how these different processes can be better be interlinked to create a positive dynamic to the implementation of MIPAA and the lives of older persons worldwide. The side event also strives to discuss adequate responses to new dynamics and challenges of the changed realities (digitalization, climate change, among others).
Former AGE Vice-President, Heidrun Mollenkopf, Sociologist and Gerontologist, and NGO Representative to the Bureau of the UNECE Standing Working Group on Ageing, will be among the speakers.
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