Older Women, The Invisible Survivors
Thu 29 Oct
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Ending violence against women and girls across the life course.
Time & Location
29 Oct 2026, 00:00
This is not an event.
About the event
WRI has been included in the UK consultations as one of the partners of Age International. WRi has been supporting the call for a Convention for Older Persons. At the WRI seminar at the UN in Geneva in October, one of our speakers was Alejandro Bonilla Garcia, Chair NGO Committee on Ageing Geneva. WRI continues to support the call for a new Convention.
Alejandro explains:
I am pleased to share with you Age International and Age UK’s new voices report: “All our rights: Hearing from older people across the world”. This brings together the views of older people in the UK and internationally on how they would like to see their rights protected.
Older people told us that the following things were important for them: