Poverty and ethnic and cultural disparities are not confined to rural areas, however.

Addressing health disparities

B. Economic disparities

Ways to close disparities

The present report focuses on the obstacles, disparities and challenges facing indigenous peoples with regard to access to and quality of education and the cultural appropriateness of educational approaches.

In addition to coverage disparities between countries and regions, there are significant inequities within countries clear rural urban disparities as well as coverage and service level disparities between richer and poorer households.

Large disparities also exist among developing countries.

However, significant regional disparities continue to exist.

Increasing disparities in income and access to services

334. Gender disparities are minimal in educational participation.

However, there are significant disparities between developing countries.

But usually that is linked to very strong social disparities.

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

The following disparities are reported in the area of education

Income disparities between and within countries have continued to widen.

While rates of urbanization in advanced economies, including those of Japan, North America and North West Europe, are much slower than elsewhere, there are clear discrepancies in population density, cultural and ethnic inequalities and increasing disparities in income.

70. Of particular concern to the Committee is the persistence of clear disparities in the exercise of economic, social and cultural rights in Paraguayan society, where a high percentage of the population still lives in conditions of poverty.

Gender disparities in respect of access to technical assistance are significant.

A. The weight of the past and economic and social disparities

Disparities and inequalities stand in the way of countries' achieving the Goals.

Stark disparities are identified in national statistical capacity to report such statistics.

Deeply concerned about the disparities between rich and poor, both within and among countries, and about the adverse implications of these disparities for the promotion of human development throughout the world,

Today, they are comparable with American income disparities. Income disparities have halved both in nominal terms when expressed in euros and in real terms when taking into account differences in purchasing power.

Noting further the prevailing industrial gap and disparities between developed and developing countries,

The willingness of the dispossessed to endure the existing disparities was fast diminishing.

Significant disparities in socio economic indicators evidencing a pattern of serious racial discrimination.

The Committee is concerned that unemployment rates remain high, with significant regional disparities.

Of these disparities, discrimination against women is one that will require priority attention.

Some disparities had occurred in the calculation of conversion rates to United States dollars.

32. It is also in the cities that the income disparities are most obvious.

A. The weight of the past and economic and social disparities 35 50 10

Several United Nations entities, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) have invested in girls' education and women's literacy training as a means of reducing gender disparities and promoting the advancement of women.

As inequality exists in today's world owing to cultural disparities and a feeling of identity crisis, it would be also useful to include protection of indigenous cultures as an additional MDG or an extension of any one of the MDGs, namely 3 or 8.

While we have managed to reduce gender disparities in education and have succeeded in improving access to sanitation and other basic facilities, great disparities remain in the levels of development both within and among our countries.

However, disparities between rural and urban populations persisted, and terrorist activities had undermined development efforts.

The Committee expressed concern about continuing gender disparities regarding educational choices of boys and girls.

We inherited a dual society with the worst income disparities seen anywhere in the world.

The Committee also remains concerned about the disparities in remuneration between men and women (arts.

Unsurprisingly, then, regional disparities in income are much greater across the enlarged EU s countries than across the US states. In 2005, average income disparities were twice as high within the then EU 25 as within the American states.

Similarly, the basic principles on the use of restorative justice programmes in criminal matters recognize the need to take into consideration disparities leading to power imbalances, as well as cultural differences among the parties, and to reintegrate both the offender and the victim into the community.

In addition, the present methods for evaluating the MDGs hide the growing disparities within disadvantaged populations.

Our collective commitment and efforts are needed to correct the imbalances and disparities in the world.

Homelessness and an increase in numbers of street children is one consequence of increasing income disparities.

1308. The Committee is concerned at the disparities between the different States apos legislation and practices.

That pathetic contrast will inevitably lead to even greater inequality, because it will widen the existing disparities.