Susanne Paul, President of Global Action on Aging and a consultant to the UM Committee on Older Adult Ministries, was invited by the UN's Department for Economic and Social Affairs to participate in sessions exploring the state of older persons' rights.

The meeting was held in Bonn, Germany. Susanne and a group of selected world experts discussed national practices to protect older people's rights and to prevent discrimination, neglect, abuse, and violence. In addition, participants identified innovative policy approaches that would enhance the rights of older people as well as tools that would help build capacity in governments and organizations to assure full enjoyment of human rights by older people. The group also focused on specific kinds of abuse and discrimination, particularly around caregiving of older people.

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