A/HRC/44/46/Add.1 and benchmarks; community-based strategies; the availability of counselling and peer counselling; and the establishment of a referral network of relevant professionals; (e) Respond to the current and varied needs of persons affected by Hansen’s disease, encompassing those who have been cured and those undergoing treatment, taking a human rights-based approach by simultaneously enforcing the rights of older persons affected by Hansen’s disease in three core dimensions – ageing, psychosocial and physical disabilities, and gender – and enforcing an efficient and comprehensive response from the public health system to the contemporary epidemiological and sociological profile of Hansen’s disease as a rare disease; (f) Provide resources to register existing good practices and scale them up into the field of international North-South and triangular cooperation relations. Support the application to include the Nagashima-aiseien Sanatorium on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Support the due recognition of older persons’ rights in international human rights law. 18

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