In these essays, which seem largely to date from the 1980's and reflect the Reagan coterie's disdain for loose talk about social justice and global peace, Thomas Sowell argues that government cannot afford to remedy, and should therefore ignore, a broad spectrum of "undeserved misfortunes arising from the cosmos" -- hardships caused by poverty, disability, geography, even race and nationality.
Health disparities are intricately linked with social inequalities based on a variety of factors, including race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation and gender identity, gender, age, disability, geography, and religion.
The absence of fair representations of diversity of race, ethnicity, class, religion, disability, geography, age, etc., has been associated with promoting a limited and discriminatory world view among children and young people that affects the way they perceive themselves and others (11).
The obstacles keeping them out of school are: conflict and fragility, poverty, geography, disability, ethnic or religious discrimination and, quite simply, lack of local capacity to educate them.
Every child, not matter how disadvantaged by parental income or family circumstance, geography, disability, race or gender, has an equal right to enjoy the protection of the Convention and the rights it sets out.
Every child, no matter how disadvantaged by parental income or family circumstance, geography, disability, race or gender, has an equal right to enjoy the protection of the Convention and the rights it sets out.
Knowing, even among girls, there are distinct and critical differences based on economic status, health and disability, ethnicity, religion and geography, girls' education efforts must focus on the most marginalised, not just the middle and upper classes.
All over the country, distance learning is helping students overcome not just geography, but also disability, culture, financial and family circumstances.
The financing primarily supports projects that reach people whose access to the arts is limited by geography, ethnicity, economics or disability.
These challenges include disability, but they also extend to geography and, perhaps most importantly, socio-economic status (picture someone trying to locate one of those sunny farmers' markets in a food desert).
Because to the degree children are disadvantaged – for reasons of geography or gender or ethnicity … or because they live with disabilities or disease … or are stigmatized and bullied for any reason – to exactly that degree, their rights are being violated.
