27 Feb RIGHTS OF THE ELDERLY
This bulletin explains the rights of the elderly, who are people over the age of sixty internationally and seventy in Zimbabwe. Age reduces the elderly’s capacities to demand and invoke their rights. Family members, society and others often violate the rights of elderly people.
The elderly deserve special rights protection as a vulnerable group. Elderly people globally totaled 737 by 2012 and may reach 1.2 billion by 2025 and 2 billion by 2050. The United Nations, acknowledging the contributions made by the elderly and their vulnerabilities, and declared every first of October, the International Day of Older Persons.
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