Open Ended Working Group on Ageing

URGENT CALL TO MEMBERS WITH ECOSOC STATUS AND THOSE ACCREDITED (OEWG-accredited NGO) TO THE OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP ON AGEING :

Even though you can only watch the meeting on UN Web TV (http://webtv.un.org/) from 29 March to 1 April, there is an opportunity for you to submit written statements !!

They can be submitted to estatements@un.org. preferably before the session starts but can be submitted up to 2 hours before it ends.

We want as many written statements submitted as possible, on any or all of the focus areas (in separate written statements) as a testimony of the concerns from hundreds of NGOs about the lack of decision-making to start drafting an international legal document to protect and promote the rights of older persons. Member States must be made aware of the wide support for a convention.

Attached are some suggestions here that you may wish to include in your statements, which should not be more that 500 words per statement.

We need to inundate the UN with hundreds of written statements. Strength in numbers!

Please join in this effort !!