Overview
- The first fully-analyzed resource on older people's human rights for those working to protect these rights
- Offers an easily searchable format for users due to its regional and topical structure
- Includes a special, up-to-the-minute chapter on the future of an international convention on the human rights of older people?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 45)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Cultural Norms and Aging
- Global Aging
- Global and Regional Action Plans on Ageing
- Human Rights of Older Persons
- International Human Rights and the Elderly
- Older People in Africa
- Older People in Asia and the Pacific
- Older People in Europe
- Older People in the Americas
- Older People's Rights
- Older Persons Rights
- Protection of the Rights of Older Persons
- Rights of the Elderly
- Status of the Rights of Older Persons
- United Nations Systems on the Elderly
About this book
This book focuses on descriptions of the developments in legal frameworks and policies regarding the human rights of older persons. First, it covers the policies adopted and practices developed at the universal system, particularly within the sphere of the United Nations. Second, it includes a side-by-side comparison of the work of regional human rights mechanisms, which have picked up some momentum in the past decade. Through its inclusion of law, policy, and current processes, the widest net possible has been cast to collect a descriptive resource for advocates.
Overall, we hope that this book contributes to a better understanding of the current limitations and possibilities that international institutions offer to uphold the human rights of older persons. We expect that this information will allow states and other policy makers to move forward with the international recognition of the human rights of older persons. We know this is only a first effort in compiling and reporting the standards that are being produced by different international institutions. But we have no doubt that many others will follow with their expert analysis of these emerging standards, and that the ongoing discussion will finally crystalize in international human rights binding instruments explicitly recognizing the universal rights of older persons.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights of Older People
Book Subtitle: Universal and Regional Legal Perspectives
Authors: Claudia Martin, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón, Bethany Brown
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7185-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7184-9Published: 21 July 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0017-5Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7185-6Published: 11 July 2015
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 353
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Aging, Public International Law, European Law, Labour Law/Social Law