Article 12

Article 12 Equality in Access to Health Care

Article 12 Equality in access to health care

Equal access to health care is not enough.

Article 12 Women's equal access to health care services

Inequality on the Horizon of Need

(h) Mobilizing resources, including at the national level and through official development assistance, for increasing women's access to existing savings and credit schemes, as well as targeted programmes that provide women with capital, knowledge and tools that enhance their economic capacities

Subject matter Unequal remuneration of work performed by prisoners

The greater the regional and local inequality, the lower the possibility of escaping inequality through traditional mechanisms income transfer and generation of formal employment.

A successful agenda for the empowerment of rural women requires the dismantling of values, structures and processes that maintain women's subordination and that are used to justify inequality in access to political, social and economic resources.

Bildungsungleichheit durch Homogenisierung (Educational inequality by homogenization, in German) by Katrin Zinoun

Statistical indicators are useful for measuring inequality.

(iii) Ensuring equal access to land and other productive assets

Right of a child of a migrant worker to a name, registration of birth and nationality access to education on the basis of equality of treatment respect for the cultural identity of migrant workers and members of their families.

Two main factors influence the extent of poverty among Arabs in Israel large families and low income, which is a function of high unemployment rates low wages and a high proportion of single breadwinner families due in part to the low participation of Arab women in the labor force.13

Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean and is marked by a highly unequal pattern of income distribution.

Juan Tadeo brings a piece from Mexico, emphasizing political and economic inequality and their social consequences of discrimination and violence.

Such perceived inequality may cause dissatisfaction, mistrust and result in unfair practices.

At the social level, we will help improve access to basic services with a view to enhancing equality and social cohesion.

Immigrants, in particular, do not enjoy the equality of opportunity that the word merit suggests.

More equitable access to credit is also critical for women's economic empowerment.

Have a thing or two to say about inequality?

He describes inequality as living in a sea of woes.

Subject matter Unequal treatment of employee following restructuring of a public service entity

Such a situation can come up in practice because a woman is never recognized as the head of household, even when she is bringing up her children alone

The elimination of gender inequality would have a powerful effect on all other factors.

What's changed is we now can look at the evidence, we can compare societies, more and less equal societies, and see what inequality does.

WHO, which has made equality of access to health care a fundamental goal, has been promoting initiatives to redress the balance.

Entrenched attitudes and practices must be changed in order to overcome existing inequalities.

However, never before has mankind suffered so much inequality, intolerance and uncertainty.

12 A gender perspective on land rights equal footing , Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005.

This is a letter from the director, concerned about especially unfair on the matter of sugar.

Giving women equal access to an adequate education brings the global community steps closer to achieving universal primary education.

If you have a lot inequity, macro geographical inequities can be more difficult in the long term to deal with, than if it is in the same area where you have a growth center relatively close to where poor people are living.

The Act recognizes the consumer's right to equal treatment, information and non discrimination on grounds of sex, and its provisions also address sexual and reproductive health.

Well, it's very simple. What kind of economic engine would keep churning if we believed that not getting what we want could make us just as happy as getting it?

Inequality has diminished, though from astronomically high levels.

These organizations are making a significant contribution to the economic advancement of women, because they work at the grassroots level to reduce social inequality and combat poverty.

In order for women to participate on an equal footing with men, they must have access to education and health.

He recalls that his parents and he himself were victims of a violation of their right to equal protection of the law without discrimination, through unequal application of the law and inequality inherent in the law itself, which does not allow him to bring an action for negligence against the authorities.

There are some aspects of inequality of rights between men and women that need to be repaired urgently.

Nevertheless, women were still denied equal rights and access to economic resources and were often the victims of violence.

My greatest regret in life will always be not to have applied for Brazilian citizenship at the time.

The State of Viet Nam has taken proactive measures to address gender inequality in some fields especially in access to land and social welfare, enabling women to have their names registered together with their husbands in the land use right and house ownership certificates and to enjoy social insurance as men do.

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.