By Newsbreak Senior Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - On the International Day of Human Rights yesterday - the Association for the Aged (TAFTA) in Durban launched a petition calling on governments to uphold older people's rights by calling for a United Nations convention on the rights of older people. The goal is to create binding targets to ensure that older persons are safe guarded against any form of abuse. TATFA chief executive Femada Shamam and criminologist Prof. Nirmala Gopal explain why this is crucial...

<p>By Newsbreak Senior Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - On the International Day of Human Rights yesterday - the Association for the Aged (TAFTA) in Durban launched a petition calling on governments to uphold older people's rights by calling for a United Nations convention on the rights of older people. The goal is to create binding targets to ensure that older persons are safe guarded against any form of abuse. TATFA chief executive Femada Shamam and criminologist Prof. Nirmala Gopal explain why this is crucial...</p>

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