Older women’s rights in international law

Sue Westwood

Older women’s rights in international law

York Law School

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the wide range of inequalities and social injustices experienced by older women, considering them in relation to international human rights law. Older women are disadvantaged compared with younger women and men of all ages in relation to education, employment, economic and material security, health and wellbeing, older age care and support, violence, abuse and neglect and environmental and humanitarian crises. At the same time, they are under-protected in international laws which are insufficiently age-sensitive, gender-sensitive and are inadequate in taking the intersections of ageism and sexism into account. The chapter argues for a gender-transformative UN convention on the rights of older persons which would fully encompass older women’s human rights, both empowering them and improving their quality of life in older age.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research Handbook on Law, Society and Ageing
Editors	Sue Westwood, Nancy J Knauer
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing
Chapter	6
Pages	77-93
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	9781803925295
ISBN (Print)	9781803925288
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2024

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https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803925295

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