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The Report sets out a number of underlying principles which are applicable to older persons, importantly the participating states reaffirmed "their belief that the fundamental and inalienable rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights apply fully and undiminished to the aging." [11] The report acknowledged several sub-topics ...
According to its Annual Report for 2008, the UNFPA received its funding mainly from European governments: Of the total income of $845.3 million, $118 million was donated by the Netherlands, $67 million by Sweden, $62 million by Norway, $54 million by Denmark, $53 million by the UK, $52 million by Spain, and $19 million by Luxembourg.
Population ageing is a shift in the distribution of a country's population towards older ages and is usually reflected in an increase in the population's mean and median ages, a decline in the proportion of the population composed of children, and a rise in the proportion of the population composed of the elderly.
The Commission on Population and Development (CPD) is one of the ten Functional Commissions of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.At its establishment by ECOSOC in October 1946, the Commission's name was "Population Commission" and in December 1994, was changed to "Commission on Population and Development".
While there's no magic formula for healthy aging, there are some habits that can help improve your quality of life in the later years. The year in aging: What we learned about getting older in ...
Its resulting Programme of Action is the steering document for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Some 20,000 delegates from various governments, UN agencies, NGOs, and the media gathered for a discussion of a variety of population issues, including immigration, infant mortality , birth control , family planning , the education of ...
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title UNFP .
Series of events dedicated to the Longevity Day in various countries in 2023 [12] There is an initiative to celebrate October 1 as the International Longevity Day in order to draw attention to aging as a medical challenge that requires, first of all, biomedical solution .