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Older People in Disasters and Humanitarian Crises: Guidelines for Best Practice

This is a very useful handbook that places a lot of emphasis on how to ensure the human rights of older people.

http://www.helpage.org/images/pdfs/bpg.pdf

Available free of charge in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Bangla and Mongolian

E-mail info@helpage.org to request specific language version.

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