At a conference I attended in London in October, a well-respected human rights activist talking about LGBT issues responded from the podium to a question about the importance of taking into account the rights of older people. Her comment – and I am paraphrasing – was that the best thing for advancing the rights of LGBT people would be to get rid of older people.
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Women from 19 countries have shared their personal experiences of elder abuse in order to break the taboo.
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Ageism exists all over the world. This International Day of Older People, Age International is calling on people and institutions everywhere to recognise and reject ageism.
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A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that gender policy and programming is solely about women, and particularly about young women. It isn’t. Gender is about all of us, at all ages.
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