1. In addition, in its General Comment No. 18 to the ICCPR the Human Rights Committee stated that the grounds for discrimination are not limited to those expressly mentioned in the ICCPR by explaining that Article 26 of the ICCPR was an autonomous right and not intended to be duplicative of Article 2 of the ICCPR, which does include a reference to "age". Accordingly, older people should be included among "all persons" who are to be treated equally before the law and entitled to equal protection of the law without discrimination under Article 26;J Miller;International Human Rights and the Elderly,2003
2. The International Human Rights Status of Elderly Persons;See D Rodr�guez-Pinz�n;915, 948. The UN Principles for Older Persons can be found in UN Doc,1991
3. Lower prevalence of psychiatric conditions when negative age stereotypes are resisted;B Levy;Social Science Medicine,2014