HelpAge International
- Barbara Crossette
- • April 6, 2021
During more than a year of tracking the parameters of Covid-19, medical science has made one thing clear: the virus hits the elderly hardest. Yet their vulnerability is often taken as fate. A new international study disagrees. Prejudice, institutional…
- Categories: Covid-19, Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Rights, SDGs
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 23, 2016
Census figures everywhere confirm that the population of the world is getting steadily older. Much has been written and alarms have been sounded in richer nations about the economic effects of aging populations and declining births. But this phenomenon…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, SDGs, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 6, 2014
A few years ago in Ethiopia, a survey conducted for the government in the capital, Addis Ababa, discovered that 88 percent of a growing number of homeless older people as well as two-thirds of those living at home did…
- Categories: Health and Population, UN Agencies
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 15, 2012
The United Nations is the place to go for people who are oppressed or neglected to discuss their problems and try to find solutions. One of the most recent special-interest groups to meet at the UN highlighted the plight…
- Categories: Health and Population, Human Rights
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