Continuing to work toward a convention on the rights of older persons.

174 Care Management Journals • Volume 14, Number 3 • 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1521-0987.14.3.174 Although, historically, ageing has not been a major focus at the UN since its founding, older persons and ageing issues have been specifically recognized by the UN in a number of documents, events, and programs as well as implicitly in others. Insofar as UN documents are concerned, older persons’ rights are implicitly protected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), both of which apply to everyone regardless of age. However, apart from the International Convention on the Protection of All Migrant Workers and Their Families (1990), which mandates against age discrimination, as of today Continuing to Work Toward a Convention on the Rights of Older Persons