University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Pan American Health Organization, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Nov;6(11). doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-007710.
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the inequitable health harms and human rights violations faced by older persons, raising a need to support healthy ageing policy as a human rights imperative. However, international human rights law has long neglected the health-related human rights of older persons. Drawing from evolving advocacy efforts to advance the rights of older persons through the United Nations (UN), tentative initial steps have been taken at the regional level, with states in the Americas codifying intersectional rights obligations underlying health through the Inter-American Convention on Protecting the Human Rights of Older Persons. These international and regional efforts provide a foundation to advance the right to health for older persons. Amid an ongoing demographic transition and an inequitable pandemic response, the prospective UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons provides a crucial opportunity to elaborate and uphold the international legal obligations necessary to facilitate healthy ageing.
新冠疫情揭示了老年人面临的不平等健康危害和侵犯人权问题，这凸显了支持健康老龄化政策作为一项人权要务的必要性。然而，国际人权法长期以来忽视了老年人的健康相关人权。从通过联合国（UN）倡导增进老年人权利的不断发展的努力中可以看出，在区域层面已经采取了初步试探性步骤，美洲各国通过《保护老年人人权美洲公约》将健康相关的交叉权利义务编纂为法律。这些国际和区域努力为增进老年人的健康权奠定了基础。在人口结构持续转型和不平等的大流行应对背景下，正在制定中的《联合国老年人权利公约》为详细阐述和维护为促进健康老龄化所需的国际法律义务提供了一个重要机会。
