(d) Aiming for universal coverage to save lives and reduce inequities.

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A major concern in the region is therefore the reduction of this inequality.

Iran's recommendations addressed a number of issues, including narcoterrorism Terrorism can be reduced by addressing social injustice, creating equal opportunities, just distribution of power and resources, and equal support and rule of law.

Its full implementation would therefore contribute to the reduction of inequalities within societies.

Concerted efforts must therefore be taken to reduce injustice, inequality, exclusion and misery.

Application of special measures which promote gender equality and grant advantages for the less represented gender or reduce gender inequality are not considered discrimination (see also Article 4).

However, women experienced inequality in employment, including with regard to reduced hiring opportunities and unequal pay for work of equal value.

According to the Treaty Establishing the European Community, it is a shared goal of the EU member states to reduce unequal treatment of men and women and to promote gender equality.

That plan identifies three major goals, namely, promoting social inclusion and reducing social inequality achieving environmentally sustainable growth aimed at generating employment and income and reducing regional inequalities and promoting and expanding citizenship and democracy.

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Delegations welcomed UNFPA efforts to reduce gender inequality and promote women's empowerment.

328. The distribution of educational opportunities continues to be inequitable owing to the lack of prioritization in reducing regional disparities in the allocation of resources.

Lastly, it would be useful to know the interrelationship between the National Plan for Equal Opportunities for Men and Women and the National Strategy to reduce Poverty and Inequality.

The objectives and activities of the project must be in conformity with the priority topics announced at the project competition of the Ministry of Social Affairs and should contribute to the reduction of gender inequality and promotion of equality.

To overcome this situation the government has to implement policies that promote sustainable development and a more egalitarian distribution of wealth, thereby reducing the existing huge inequalities.

new efforts to reduce structural inequalities within societies by eliminating group discrimination.

23. Political and economic progress in our region must go hand in hand with a reduction in social inequalities.

Emphasizes that poverty reduction policies should attack poverty by addressing its root and structural causes and manifestations and that equity and the reduction of inequalities need to be incorporated into those policies

In 1997, for purposes of ensuring equal opportunities in terms of receiving a higher education and reducing gender inequality, a Presidential quota was put in place at the initiative of Republic of Tajikistan President E.Sh. Rakhmonov for admitting girls from remote mountainous regions of the Republic to higher learning institutions, without an entrance exam.

Consequently, although up until now universal policies have been effective in generating a decrease in gender inequality, its persistence within specific groups means that affirmative actions must start considering the issues of gender, race and ethnicity jointly.

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Reducing poverty and promoting equity

So lower levels of social expenditure could involve only a relatively small increase in inequality and social conflict. Moreover, if Europeans target social expenditure better, they might achieve a greater reduction in inequality with a lower level of social transfers.

The Ministry of Social Affairs has initiated and coordinated programmes and projects for the promotion of gender equality and reduction of inequality, which have mostly been aimed at informing and training of the public and target groups, preparing and disseminating relevant materials, raising the administrative capacity of state agencies to be able to notice discrimination of women and to reduce gender inequality.

There must be equality in the injustice that currently exists, or a reduction in the degree of injustice in the Security Council with respect to its resolutions.

For example, the decrease in attacks on civilians may also be a function of a reduced number of targets.

Achieving the twin challenges of sustaining growth and reducing inequality has high priority on the policy agenda of the region.

National budgets and policies should be designed with the strategic objective of meeting basic needs, eradicating poverty and reducing inequalities.

It recommends that urgent steps be taken, by way of education, encouragement and legal means, to reduce or eliminate these inequalities.

1.100 The drop out rate will have been reduced to an average of 0.38 per cent in the elementary cycle and 2.48 per cent in the preparatory cycle.

(d) Reducing the number of cases of serious or moderate malnutrition among children aged three to 36 months from 3 to 2 per cent in 1996 and to 1 per cent by 2000

The commitment to redress women apos s inequality is shared by all social sectors, but it is, above all, a gender commitment in which those of us women who are fully aware of that inequality must pool our efforts to enable all Panamanian women to enter the twenty first century with equity, development, social justice and peace.

52. In pursuing our goal of disarmament, efforts to reduce the supply of weapons are not enough reduction in the demand for them is equally, if not more, important.

Official statistical data that follow up on these changes, as part of indicators of demographic changes, indicate the following

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The activities of the Gender Equality Department are regulated by the Minister of Social Affairs Regulation of 4 May 2004, according to which the main duties of the department include preparation of legislation relating to gender equality, planning of measures to reduce inequality and coordinating of the implementation of the measures.

The unavoidable corollary is that peacekeeping cash has diminished and will continue to do so, more or less in step with any future decrease in the level of peacekeeping activities.

The reduction of unemployment and social inequality and the expansion of social investment are determining factors for human development in other words, sustainable economic growth within a democratic framework based on social and gender equality.

19. Ensuring actions to promote equal access to and use of new information technologies by young women and young men once those are a privileged instrument to progressively reduce or eliminate inequalities and foster development

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Understanding and reducing these health inequalities remains a major public policy challenge worldwide. It is not only a moral issue health inequalities carry significant economic costs.