WASHINGTON, CMC -The Inter-American Fee on Human Rights (IACHR)has welcomed Belize’s accession to the Inter-American Conference on Defending the Human Rights of Older Individuals.
The Caribbean Group (CARICOM) nation turned the twelfth State Occasion to the treaty after depositing its instrument of accession on December 16.
The Conference was adopted by the member states of the Group of American States (OAS) in 2015 and is the primary legally binding treaty looking for to advertise, defend, and assure the complete recognition and train of the human rights and basic freedoms of older folks. It goals to foster their inclusion, integration, and participation in society underneath circumstances of equality.
In October 2024, throughout its most up-to-date technical cooperation go to to Belize, the IACHR burdened the significance of ratifying inter-American devices, together with the Inter-American Conference on Defending the Human Rights of Older Individuals, to the nation’s authorities.
Belize joins Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Suriname, and Uruguay as a State Occasion to the Conference.
The IACHR, a principal and autonomous physique of the OAS, mentioned these nations have already pledged to implement legislative, administrative, and different measures to eradicate discrimination and violence towards older individuals and guarantee their proper to a full, impartial, and autonomous life.
It mentioned this consists of guaranteeing entry to well being, safety, and alternatives for energetic participation in financial, social, cultural, and political life.
The IACHR mentioned it’s once more calling on OAS member states that haven’t but ratified the Inter-American Conference on Defending the Human Rights of Older Individuals to take action and expressing “its readiness to offer technical help to States in implementing the conference and to proceed working collectively on initiatives that underscore the worth of older folks and their function and contributions to society.”
