COMPILATION OF INTERNATIONAL NORMS
AND STANDARDS RELATING TO DISABILITY
Part V. Rights of Vulnerable Groups. 4/11   
3. Rights of the Aged
Article 4 of the Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter
provides that States Parties must ensure the effective exercise of the right of elderly
persons to social protection.
Also, the Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the
Field of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights confers in Article 17 the right to
special protection for the elderly.
The Preamble of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
states "...that some groups of women, such as women belonging to minority groups,
indigenous women, refugee women, migrant women, women living in rural or remote
communities, destitute women, women in institutions or in detention, female children,
women with disabilities, elderly women and women in situations of armed conflict, are
especially vulnerable to violence".
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