The pursuit and advancement of the principle of intergenerational solidarity would ensure that the rights of people of all ages are protected and promoted at all times to secure a life of dignity across the broad diversity of the world’s population. [...] Malnutrition among older persons is associated with both short term and long term negative health outcomes.11 The estimates of older adults experiencing malnutrition available from the USA and UK range from 1 in 10 to 1 in 6, and the surveys that exist in LICs and MICs also point to systemic hunger and malnutrition in older age. [...] In Ethiopia, 87 per cent of older people said that the diversity and quantity of food available to them and their households had declined due to the crisis, with 77 per cent of older people in Malawi and 64 per cent in Tanzania reporting the same. [...] Include the voice and agency of older people in the peace and justice and development agenda and ensure their rights are recognized through a Convention on the Rights of Older People 3. [...] The purpose of the group is to contribute to establishing international standards and methods for the compilation of statistics and data on the major dimensions of ageing and age- disaggregated data across the life cycle, and to collaborate with United Nations (UN) bodies and other organizations concerned with specific aspects of ageing and age statistics.36 ‘The overall objective of the Titchfiel.
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- SUMMARY 1
- RECOMMENDATIONS TO MEMBER STATES 2
- SDG 1 End poverty in all its forms everywhere 3
- If you dont have money you die. 3
- Key informant Tanga Tanzania 5 July 2022 3
- Recommendations 6
- SDG 2 Zero Hunger 7
- 2.1 7
- 2.2 7
- 2.3 7
- We have to beg in order to eat and provide food for our children. Older woman focus 7
- Recommendations 9
- SDG 13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts 10
- Climate change is a problem area with its own scientific language and dominant wisdoms 10
- The weather has changed completely. There used to be a lot more rain previously but now it 12
- Abdulla Alli 99 years old Bubluk Ethiopia 12
- Recommendations 12
- SDG 16 Promote just peaceful and inclusive societies 13
- 16.1 13
- 16.3 13
- 16.9 13
- 16.10 13
- A witness said As he was pulled outside Dieudonne aged 60 said My sons look at me. I am old and blind. I was just on the way to the camp to look for food. Why kill me The Seleka 13
- Recommendations 15
- SDG 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development 16
- The exclusion of older persons from surveys and national censuses affects the ability to 16
- Claudia Mahler 16
- Recommendations 18
- REFERENCES 19
