Overcoming age-based discrimination against older persons
Recommendation 2291
(2025)
Author(s):
Parliamentary Assembly
Origin
Assembly
debate on 31 January 2025 (9th sitting) (see Doc. 16091, report of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination,
rapporteur: Ms Andrea Eder-Gitschthaler). Text
adopted by the Assembly on 31 January 2025 (9th sitting).
1. Referring to its Resolution 2592 (2025) “Overcoming
age-based discrimination against older persons”, the Parliamentary
Assembly congratulates the Committee of Ministers on adopting Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)2
to member States on the promotion of human rights of older persons.
2. Welcoming the update of the course on anti-discrimination
of the Council of Europe Programme on Human Rights Education for
Legal Professionals (HELP), the Assembly invites the Committee of
Ministers to consider adding a module on age-based discrimination.
3. In order to protect and promote the human rights of older
persons and to eliminate the discrimination they face, including
in the field of healthcare, as well as to combat the stereotypes,
prejudices and bias against older persons that lie at the root of
such discrimination, the Assembly calls on the Committee of Ministers
to:
3.1 keep under review, as so
decided in 2019, the implementation of Recommendation CM/Rec(2014)2,
in particular with the aim of identifying and remedying existing
gaps in this field, considering in this context the desirability
and feasibility of a specific legal instrument at the European level
which would provide a framework for the protection of the human
rights of older persons;
3.2 consider preparing a recommendation on preventing and
combating ageism, following a similar approach to that of Recommendation CM/Rec(2019)1
of the Committee of Ministers to member States on preventing and
combating sexism;
3.3 be represented and participate actively in the ongoing
discussions in the United Nations Human Rights Council on developing
an international legally binding instrument on the rights of older
persons.
