Christopher Argyros, program manager for the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Anti-Violence Project, said violence against LGBT people persists "despite increases in public acceptance".
Despite increases by Italy and Germany, both countries had fallen well short of their targets.
Despite increases in education spending, more than half of all Indian fourth graders cannot read a second-grade text.
Despite increases in the overall unemployment rate, animal health care technicians like Ms. Baik continue to be in demand.
Despite increases in wealth, industrial productivity, and the size of the American population, the decline has accelerated.
But despite increases in cancer and chronic conditions such as diabetes and arthritis, disability has been falling.
New drug approvals peaked in the mid-1990s and have generally declined since then despite increases in research spending.
The framework shows that despite increases in aid, $180bn still needs to be delivered to meet the UN target of 0.7% of GNI devoted to ODA by 2015.
Despite increases in first offence reporting, there is some evidence that repeat offences are less often reported and prosecutions of hate crimes have not kept pace.
Comcast, the nation's third-largest cable operator, said yesterday that investment losses contributed to a second-quarter loss of $209.6 million, despite increases in revenue and cash flow.
"Despite increases in total assistance, figures show that there are stark disparities in the scale of humanitarian response, resulting in a number of crises being forgotten," Coppard said.
