WATER, PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT: THE IMPERATIVES OF THE UNITED NATIONS MDG

NGLS interviews Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger, Chair of the UN NGO Committee on

Ageing Geneva and President of the Geneva International Network on Ageing

On the occasion of the eighteenth session of the Human Rights Council and the 20th annual celebration of the UN International Day of Older Persons (1 October), a High- level Panel on Older Women and the Right to Health was held on 26 September in Geneva. The Panel was co-sponsored by the UN NGO Committee on the Status of Women Geneva and a number of other civil society organizations including the Geneva International Network on Ageing; the Women’s UN Report Network (WUNRN); Help Age International; and the International Disability Alliance.