05 June 2015
The South African Human Rights Commission has completed a report into the challenges relating to the treatment of older persons.
The report states that older
persons in the country continue to lack access to adequate health and basic
education, suffer gender discrimination and abuse, and are threatened with
economic isolation with no prospect of securing employment.
The commission’s Isaac Mangena
said we believe that we really need to stand up as South Africans and really
protect the rights of older persons.
Mangena said particularly in
extreme rural areas you find that older persons are neglected, physically abused
and raped, because you find that the children and grandchildren move to the suburbs
so they find themselves exposed to these kind of problems.
“We are hoping that government
will take steps which we have put in the recommendations to try and do more to
protect older persons in the country” Mangena added.
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