Age discrimination is a widespread phenomenon: in all countries of the world older people may endure physical, sexual, psychological, verbal or financial violence.
In 1995 at the Beijing 4th World Conference, Human Slavery/Human Trafficking was seen as 'hardly an issue', and yet, the practice was viewed to be a priority for many Soroptimists already working in this area through an International Quadrennial Project taking place in Thailand.
The world is still 'sleepwalking' into the 'catastrophe' known as climate change - even though we have been warned that climate impacts are now hitting harder and sooner than climate assessments indicated even a decade ago.