Events for 21่ September 2024 - 21่ September 2024

Date: 1-4 September 2014 Venue: Convention Center, the Empress Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand Every two years, the HelpAge Network of organisations working on ageing in the Asia/Pacific region and its key allies gather for a Regional Conference. The 2014 Regional [...]

Date: 10-12 September 2014 Venue: Robbinsdale Hotel, Sta. Mesa, Manila,  Philippines Philippine policy-makers have long recognized the predicament of the elderly as presented in the 1986 Constitution. Older people have been included in many laws and policies regarding health and social services, [...]

Date: 21 September 2014 Venue: Car Free Day area, Jakarta As part of the Age Demands Action campaign, 115 members of our Indonesian affiliate, Yayasan Emong Lansia (YEL), marched with members of Alzheimer Indonesia in Jakarta. The march started early in [...]

Date: 29 September 2014 Time: 01:00 – 02:00 pm As part of Age Demands Action (ADA), older people in Cambodia will use the United Nation’s International Day of Older Persons on 1 October 2014 to call for action from the [...]

Date: 1 October 2014 Venue: Manila Our Philippines affliliate, Coalition of Services of the Elderly, held a walk today in Manila together with the Confederation of Older Persons’ Associations of the Philippines to celebrate IDOP2014 and call for better implementation of the Expanded [...]

Launch of Global AgeWatch Index 2014 Date: 1 October 2014 Venue: Worldwide HelpAge International will  be launching the Global AgeWatch Index 2014 on 1 October 2014, which is the only index measuring the quality of life and the social and [...]

Social Transfer Course: Designing and Implementing Social Transfer programmes Date: 6-17 October 2014 Venue: Chiang Mai, Thailand “Designing and Implementing Social Transfer programmes” a course for policy makers, government officials and practitioners around the world. Around the world, developing countries [...]

International Day for Older Persons was celebrated in Lao P.D.R. Date: 7 October 2014 Venue: Boulykhamxay, Lao P.D.R. Lao Women’s Union (LWU) organised a public event in Boulykhamxay province to celebrate the 2014 International Day for Older Persons on the 7th [...]

International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) – Resilience is for life! Date: 13 October 2014 Venue: Worldwide   13 October is the International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) and also the ASEAN Day for Disaster Management (ADDM).  It is a [...]

Winning the fight against poverty and inequality – a Social Protection Floor for everyone Date: 4-6 November 2014 Venue: European Parliament, Brussel, Belgium SOLIDAR roundtable Debate “Winning the fight against poverty and inequality – a Social Protection Floor for everyone” In [...]