Resources
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND OLDER PERSONS
- Human Rights of Older Persons in the United Nations
- Human Rights of Older Persons in the Council of Europe
- International standards on the rights of older people
- European Convention on Human Rights
- European Court of Human Rights
- Factsheet of the European Court of Human Rights on Elderly people and the European Convention on Human Rights
- European Social Charter
- EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
- Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA)
- UN Principles for Older Persons
- OHCHR factsheets on human rights issues
UN PROCESSES ON THE RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS
- UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing
- UN Independent Expert on the Enjoyment of All Human Rights by Older Persons
CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM
- OHCHR, Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme - A Handbook for Civil Society
- APF-CESR, Defending dignity: Manual on Economic and Social Rights Monitoring
- Renate Kicker and Markus Möstl, Standard-setting through monitoring? The role of Council of Europe expert bodies in the development of human rights
- OHCHR, How to follow up on UN Human Rights Recommendations
- INTRAC, Advocacy: A guide for small and diaspora NGOs
- UNICEF, Advocacy toolkit: A guide to influencing decisions that improve children’s lives
- Harvard Project on Disability, Change your life with human rights – A Self-Advocacy Book for People with Disabilities
- OHCHR, Training manual on human rights monitoring
TRAININGS AND PROJECTS ON OLDER PEOPLE’S RIGHTS
- Age UK, Human Rights Toolkit
- Scottish Human Rights Commission, Care about Rights
- ENNHRI, Human Rights of Older Persons
NGOs DEALING WITH THE RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE
DATABASES
- Universal Human Rights Index
- HUDOC – Caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights
- HUDOC – Caselaw on the European Social Charter
- E-Justice Portal