In a historic decision last week, a longstanding United Nations body recognized that the international human rights system doesn’t fully protect older people’s rights, and it recommended a new human rights treaty to help correct this.
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Makes sense, but the article makes it sound like the do not have “fully protected rights”. I think about children in such ways, handicapped people or people with dementia. Where it makes sense that they do not have every right based on their limited abilities.