prepare a report on "The old people the least cared for?"
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if the roll call of interesting authors is anything to go by, it looks like the issue of ageing has finally arrived at the main hall of the global development conference centre.
As most people know, older people are the most likely to vote, whereas under-18s have no vote at all, meaning that, at the national level, old people tend to be fairly well served by democratic politics.
But the reverse appears to be true in international politics. Think of the plethora of international children’s charities – and then try to name more than one for old people. And though Unicef is a $4bn (£2.7bn) a year megalith at the heart of the UN establishment, there is no UN organisation for old people – although they do have a UN “day”, if that means anything any more.
Old people did not have a millennium development goal, and in the draft of the sustainable development goals, there are 23 references to young people and children, compared with only three to older people. In the words of one of the contributors to the essays: “Sub-Saharan Africa’s older people receive little, if any, consideration in core development agendas.”
Why the lack of concern? One reason may simply be that we naturally focus our sympathies and attention on the new generation rather than the old. There is a human instinct to give a chance to the young, innocent as they so obviously are of past errors, their parents’ or their country’s. The unfairness of their poverty is that much more obvious and inspires us to respond.
As most people know, older people are the most likely to vote, whereas under-18s have no vote at all, meaning that, at the national level, old people tend to be fairly well served by democratic politics.
But the reverse appears to be true in international politics. Think of the plethora of international children’s charities – and then try to name more than one for old people. And though Unicef is a $4bn (£2.7bn) a year megalith at the heart of the UN establishment, there is no UN organisation for old people – although they do have a UN “day”, if that means anything any more.
Old people did not have a millennium development goal, and in the draft of the sustainable development goals, there are 23 references to young people and children, compared with only three to older people. In the words of one of the contributors to the essays: “Sub-Saharan Africa’s older people receive little, if any, consideration in core development agendas.”
Why the lack of concern? One reason may simply be that we naturally focus our sympathies and attention on the new generation rather than the old. There is a human instinct to give a chance to the young, innocent as they so obviously are of past errors, their parents’ or their country’s. The unfairness of their poverty is that much more obvious and inspires us to respond.
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