Protection of older persons’ rights needed now ‘more than ever’: Bachelet

April 11, 2022 chhaymam@chhaymam.com UN News - Human Rights 0

The basic rights of older persons need to be protected today, more than ever before, said the UN human rights chief on Monday, but existing legal safeguards render them, in effect, “invisible”.

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