Question 1:
Our organization – The Regional Public Foundation for Eldercare Dobroe Delo (Good Cause)
– takes part in MIPAA performance and monitoring since 2007. At that time we were taking
part in the regional conference of OUN for Europe in the city of Leon (Spain), then, in 2012,
in Vienna, Austria. In 2012 our foundation obtained a special consultative status at OUN.
Question 2:
Yes, such approach starts forming step by step: nowadays the project of National strategy for
interests of elderly citizens is being discussed; in conformity with suggestions of
representatives of the civil society the project will cover suggestions concerning the
protection of rights of elderly people, prevention of age discrimination, ageism and
prophylactics of violence against elderly people.
Question 3:
For the project of the National strategy on ageing, discussed in our country, are suggested
offers, referred to rights of handicapped persons, elderly people from villages and homeless
ones.
Question 4:
In 2007 our foundation (for the first time in Russia) has edited 4000 copies of MIPAA text
and distributed it free of charge among elderly people and their organizations, both in
Moscow and in regions. Generally, we yet mark out the low level of knowledge of elderly
people about MIPAA, as well as their participation in the decision making concerning the
performance.
Question 5:
Till now we can say that MIPAA information concerning the equity and non-allowance of the
age discrimination promotes the setting of such problems in the public field of the national
ageing.
Question 6:
At the start of the public discussion concerning the project of the National strategy of ageing,
the representative of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Protected informed that this
strategy is to be based on MIPAA.
Question 7:
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Due to efforts of the civil society (mainly by activities of our Coalition - the Non-Profit
Organization “Right of Elderly People”), made during last years, such issues as the
observance of rights of elderly people in Russia have shifted step by step to the public field.
Question 8:
The opinion of our Good Cause Foundation is that the main problem, referred to the
management of sophisticated processes of ageing, hindering to make the protection and
implementation of rights of elderly people more effectively, is the absence in our country of
any structures, at all levels, which would be responsible for the ageing policy; there are no
national plans on ageing, no budgets for ageing implementation are being published, there are
no personal names of peoples in charge for the ageing implementation. Offers of
representatives of the civil society referred to the creation of the position of the ombudsman
for rights of elderly people have been rejected many times.
Eduard Karyukhin,
head of the “Dobroe Delo” Foundation,
gerontologist,
Moscow, Russia
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