Traduction de «Association canadienne des personnes d'âge mûr » (Français → Anglais) :

52. Stresses the importance of volunteering, which cannot be taken for granted and should therefore have its added social value taken into greater consideration, and which promotes intercultural learning and intergenerational solidarity, fosters active ageing and lifelong civic participation, and enables older people to display a commitment to society, thereby improving their quality of life, well-being and general state of health; encourages the development of more flexible and inclusive approaches to participation in volunteering programmes; in this context, regrets the discontinuation of the Grundtvig programme which supported older volunteers; recalls the importance of European and transnational networks of ...[+++]associations and public and private bodies working to foster the integration of elderly people, which should be given particular support, and urges the Commission to acknowledge the value of successful EU programmes which combined civic participation with EU-wide group exchanges involving older people;

52. Stresses the importance of volunteering, which cannot be taken for granted and should therefore have its added social value taken into greater consideration, and which promotes intercultural learning and intergenerational solidarity, fosters active ageing and lifelong civic participation, and enables older people to display a commitment to society, thereby improving their quality of life, well-being and general state of health; encourages the development of more flexible and inclusive approaches to participation in volunteering programmes; in this context, regrets the discontinuation of the Grundtvig programme which supported older volunteers; recalls the importance of European and transnational networks of ...[+++]associations and public and private bodies working to foster the integration of elderly people, which should be given particular support, and urges the Commission to acknowledge the value of successful EU programmes which combined civic participation with EU-wide group exchanges involving older people;

Discrimination by association shall concern persons associated – or presumed to be associated – by emotional ties – not necessarily living together and regardless of formal legal status through marriage or affiliation – with persons of a particular religion or belief, disability, age or particular sexual orientation.

Thousands of people have climbed over that first wall: children, students, mothers, old people; many have fallen, one person even died.

27. Urges the Commission to increase Member States' awareness, not only of the need to improve the working lives of older people, but also of the need to promote their active involvement in social and cultural life, which represents a valuable contribution to society, both by setting up neighbourhood centres, facilities to provide social activities combined with the social security needed, services dedicated to the special needs of older people, facilities to promote active citizenship and participation, senior citizens" universities as well as leisure and hobby facilities, and also by supporting volunteer work and participation in associations by senior citizens, ...[+++] also with a view to demonstrating solidarity with those who are older than themselves; considers that particular attention should be paid to how involvement by older people in the social economy i.e. Third System, would help to strengthen and enhance the social cohesion of communities;

[3] The Social Platform of Social NGOs, the European Network against Racism (ENAR), the European Disability Forum (EDF), the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), the AGE Platform and the European Roma Rights Centre.