Andrew Kavala, a Global Ageing Network board member and executive director of Malawi Network of Older Persons’ Organisations, was appointed by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) to the Expert Working Group on the Rights of Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities in Africa on August 2. Kavala was appointed to serve on a five-member expert working group for two years and will be representing the southern Africa region.

“I will represent the entire southern Africa in this expert group. I am sure to build strategic synergies across the region towards the creation of an enabling environment for older persons and persons with disabilities,” Kavala said in a Nations Online article. 

The ACHPR was inaugurated on 1987 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is officially charged with protecting and promoting human and peoples’ rights,  and interpreting the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.