World Day against Trafficking in Persons (30 July) - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Dr Nilesh Buddha, Officer-in-Charge, WHO South-East AsiaIn the WHO South-East Asia Region, the proportion of people aged 60 years and above is projected to nearly double between 2024 and 2050, from 11.3% to 20.9%. However, many older people spend part of their later years living with ill health, disability or care needs. At age 60, the regional health span gap – the number of years someone lives with chronic disease or poor health – is 4.6 years. This year’s International Day of Older Persons carries the theme “The Age of Longevity: Rethinking Systems for Longer Lives,” a call to treat healthy ageing as more than a health-sector issue. Rethinking systems means mobilizing the sectors that shape how people age – health, social protection, housing, local government, and more – to ensure that longer lives are also lived well. The Region is making progress, with Member States increasingly translating the healthy ageing agenda into national and local action. Thailand, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, India and Timor-Leste have enacted policies and programmes for integrated care, long-term care, age-friendly approaches, and stronger institutional mechanisms.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

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What researchers uncovered through lab testing and surveillance footage, prosecutors said, was a plot by his fellow graduate student to intentionally poison him.