{"id":15617,"date":"2023-09-16T22:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=15617"},"modified":"2023-09-16T22:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:09:57","slug":"violence-against-older-persons-surging-worldwide-un-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/09\/16\/violence-against-older-persons-surging-worldwide-un-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence against older persons surging worldwide: UN expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Violence against older persons surging worldwide: UN expert<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As the number of older persons in the world rapidly increases, violence against older persons remains unaddressed despite being widespread, pervasive, and putting millions of older persons at risk, a UN expert said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombatting abuse in old age is not a priority at national, regional or global levels,\u201d said Claudia Mahler, UN independent expert on the enjoyment of all human rights of older persons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In her report to the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Ms. Mahler said violence, neglect, and abuse in old age have far-reaching consequences for the mental and physical well-being of older persons worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of its multidimensional impact, adequate interventions and solutions are needed,\u201d the expert said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn increase in violence against older persons was noticed during ongoing crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in armed conflicts and the consequences of climate change,\u201d Mahler said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrises lead to economic setbacks, which put more strain on support structures worldwide, which in turn may put more older persons at risk of suffering from violent acts,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization estimates that one in six older persons has experienced some form of violence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source(s) &amp; Courtesy: APP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Violence against older persons surging worldwide: UN expert &nbsp; UNITED NATIONS: &nbsp; As the number of older persons in the world rapidly increases, violence against older persons remains unaddressed despite being widespread, pervasive, and putting millions of older persons at risk, a UN expert said Friday. &nbsp; \u201cCombatting abuse in old age is not a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2805,2297,2299],"tags":[3193,2852,2382],"class_list":["post-15617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-human-rights","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-claudia-mahler","tag-human-rights","tag-united-nations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15619,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15617\/revisions\/15619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}