Bridget Penhale
@bpenhale
Academic and researcher, Co-editor Journal of Adult Protection (Emerald publication), elder abuse and adult safeguarding specialist. Tweets are my own views.
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http://www.uea.ac.uk/nam/People/Academic/Bridget+Penhale 02-11-2010 12:59:56
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Utterly brilliant. Well done Led By Donkeys Nigel Farage MP #REFORMUK
📢#HRC58 adopted resolution A/HRC/58/L.24: create an Intergovernmental working group to draft an international legally binding instrument on older people's rights. Advocates, supporters, THANK YOU! #AgeWithRights Global Alliance NGO Ageing Geneva UN For Ageing UN Human Rights Council UN Human Rights UN For Ageing
A historic day for older people’s rights! Today, UN Human Rights Council took a key step towards a United Nations Convention on the Rights of #OlderPeople—a long-overdue, binding commitment to dignity & inclusion. After years of advocacy, it's time to get drafting! #AgeWithRights #HRC58
Great day for human rights for older persons.Resolution adopted for a working group to draft a UN convention on older people🙏to Canadian & International NGO’s, Ambassadors Bob Rae @peterevanmac Canada Mission UN Canada in Geneva 🍁 UN Human Rights
It was such an honour to participate as an older woman and civil society in the process and being there at such an historic moment of adoption of the resolution to elaborate a Convention! Global Alliance NGO Ageing Geneva INPEA GANHRI Argentina ante Org. Int. en Ginebra REP. DOMINICANA ONUG Slovenia to UN Geneva
So good that you were there co-ordinating responses and keeping everyone informed. Great too that you could be present for the adoption - thanks for your commitment and contributions Ellen Graham
📢 Older persons deserve full human rights protections. ILCC joins advocates worldwide in calling for a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons United Nations United Nations Geneva #HumanRights #EndAgeism #ILCC #CCAA
📅 Nov 18 | 12:20–1:20 PM ET Join Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Petrie-Flom Center & CLBB MassGen-Harvard for a panel on the new UN treaty on the rights of older persons. Learn how lessons from the #CRPD can guide stronger global protections. 🔗 Register: cstu.io/1ed10b Global Alliance