New research released today by Save the Children reveals a story of fast but unequal progress in child survival.
This report presents examples of unequal progress among marginalized and vulnerable groups.
And as our dear friend Ambassador Stephen Lewis never tires of emphasizing, and we all agree, an underlying cause of the slow and unequal progress in combating HIV/AIDS, reducing maternal mortality, closing the gender gap in basic education is the deeply-rooted gender inequality and low status of girls and women in most of our societies.
Amidst this story of unequal progress, however, we have seen a glimmer of hope.
The world's most unequal region, huge progress has improved the lives of many children, but left behind others, including children living in poverty and those of African or indigenous descent.
Performed in cold, rainy but elatingly festive conditions on the night that I attended, Christmas Cracker ends in the same joyously eccentric, wondrously witty and indissolubly Shakespearean manner that has marked its progress over two unequal portions.
Research has found that motherhood is a direct cause of women's lack of career progress and unequal pay.
A human rights approach brings both a critical and a practical dimension to public deliberation in bringing attention to historical patterns, cultural values, and prevailing structures of power and powerlessness as they contribute to or result in disparities in access to the benefits of scientific progress or unequal exposure to environmental health hazards.
Globally, there has been a 45% drop in maternal deaths, but progress has been unequal across regions and even within countries; for years, this has been the goal least likely to be met.
Efforts to ensure women's access to family planning, and to reduce the number of maternal and child deaths, have achieved significant results over the past 20 years, but progress has been unequal and fragmented, according to the UN.
And yet, polarised and unequal as Kenya is, its progress punctuated by electoral violence and spasms of ethnic tension, the country has for the most part muddled valiantly ahead.It remains the economic and political hub of wider east Africa, drawing a quarter of a billion people into its orbit.
