NHRI 2020 Conference on the Rights of Older Persons

7 December 2020, 6.00- 8.35am CET

On behalf of the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) we would like to invite you to the NHRI 2020 Conference on the Rights of Older Persons in the run-up to the eleventh session of the United Nations General Assembly open-ended Working Group for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons.

Background

Owing to the impact of COVID-19, the eleventh session of the United Nations General Assembly open-ended Working Group on Ageing for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons, originally scheduled for 6-9 April 2020, was postponed to 2021. Given the key role that national human rights institutions play in informing substantive discussions at the Working Group, the Chair of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) Working Group on Ageing, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, decided to host a conference in the run-up to the eleventh session.

Objective

The objective of the Conference is to provide a platform for a diverse set of stakeholders including Governments, national human rights institutions, civil society organisations and intergovernmental organisations to have ongoing informal discussions on the human rights of older persons in-between sessions of the Working Group, with particular emphasis on the context of COVID-19 pandemic.

The conference is organised by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of to the Argentine Republic to the United Nations in New York, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI).

The NHRI 2020 Conference will take place on 7th December 2020, 6.00- 8.35am CET (Geneva Time).

Please see below registration link to the event:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUvfiqHunwuyQTatXPV00AcKb0YO_xNW29Da5dS4tS1z83Fg/viewform