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UK AND US 'MUST LEARN FROM POOR COUNTRIES' TO SOLVE AGEING CRISIS
In just four years, what began with five older people associations has mushroomed into hundreds of such self-sustaining entities... READ MORE›
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HEALTH CARE COSTS HERE'S WHAT THE U.S. COULD LEARN FROM SINGAPORE'S PLAN FOR AGING WORKERS
Singapore's largest supermarket chain, NTUC Fairprice, has also focused on employing older workers, with roughly half of its employees aged 50 or over... READ MORE›
AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'
An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
WORLD POPULATION TO HIT 8BN IN 2023, SAYS NEW UN SURVEY
By contrast, all European countries now languish with fertility rates below replacement level, meaning that populations will inexorably decline without large-scale immigration... READ MORE›
REVEALED: THE BEST AND WORST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD TO GROW OLD
The Global AgeWatch Index was released on Wednesday to mark the United Nations International Day of Older Persons... READ MORE›
ADVICE FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT: EXPAND SOCIAL SECURITY
Social Security, meanwhile, faces a financial shortfall as the baby boomers enter retirement... READ MORE›
READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH
Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›
DON'T WANT TO WORK UNTIL YOU ARE 70? YOU WILL HAVE TO, SAYS WEF
The pension savings' gap in the US is forecast to rise almost fivefold from 28bn to 137bn by the middle of the century... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS
In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›
UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS
We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX
As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›
REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA
To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›
UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS
The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›
70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE
70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›
EQUAL PAY IS STILL FAR-OFF FOR BRITAIN, WHERE THE GENDER GAP NARROWS AT A GLACIAL PACE
There has been much debate about how much Green has offered the regulator to support the BHS pension scheme, which has a deficit of ?571m... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS
In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›
WORLD'S OLDEST PERSON HAS LOTS OF COMPANY IN JAPAN
Already, a quarter of Japan's population of about 127 million is 65 years or older, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS
For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015
The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›
MEET THE YOUNGSTERS HELPING SOLVE JAPAN'S CAREGIVING CRISIS. LIKE KUNIO ODAIRA, 72.
Kunio Odaira, 72, started working at the Cross Heart nursing home in Yokohama, Japan, after retiring from his job in sales at an auto parts maker... READ MORE›
ARE YOU WORRIED ABOUT OUR AGEING POPULATION
If you're an older person or work with older people, you can share your thoughts by filling in the form below... READ MORE›
STAFF AS YOUNG AS 45 SUFFER AGE BIAS, WORKPLACE REPORT REVEALS
Study author Justine Irving said as a result of discrimination, older workers faced limited employment, training and promotion opportunities... READ MORE›
FEW FEEL OLDER PEOPLE IN THE UK HAVE A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE, SURVEY FINDS
In the process such projects can also demonstrate the cross-generational support that will help society manage an ageing population... READ MORE›
THE BEST AND WORST COUNTRIES FOR PEOPLE 60 AND OLDER
Australia's overall ranking of 17th out of 96 countries masks an alarmingly high rate of poverty among older Australians according to the report's methodology... READ MORE›
A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT
We could have added environmental human rights to that legacy last weekend but we failed... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL IN PEACEKEEPER SEX ABUSE CASE RESIGNS
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a panel to review how the United Nations system as a whole handles allegations of sexual abuse against peacekeepers... READ MORE›