Nuevos desafíos para la participación de las personas mayores a partir de la Convención Interamericana sobre la Protección de los Derechos Humanos de las Personas Mayores

Abstract

The aim is to give a reflective look at human rights concerning the participation that civil society and, especially, the elderly, have had in it to achieve the Inter-American Convention, making a revision of its role to attain some instruments in the universal and inter-American human rights system that contributed to its establishment, the role that civil society has played to achieve its ratification in the case of Chile and some of the new challenges for older persons, as the effective holders of the rights established in it, especially as from the participation developed in the Convention, as a right as such and as a means for the enjoyment of other rights.