(p) To give appropriate priority to the collection of quantitative and qualitative data relating to disparities in education, including gender disparities

However, by eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education, it had fulfilled Millennium Development Goal 3.

However, there are other gender disparities in education that need addressing, some of which have been highlighted in this Report.

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.

Education for All goal 5 on the elimination of gender disparities in education by 2005 and on the achievement of gender equality by 2015 is directly linked to access and quality education issues.

UNESCO activities included a 110,000 project aimed at eliminating gender disparities, implemented with the Ministries of Education and Higher Education in cooperation with the Ministry of Women's Affairs.

Its implementation would therefore result in the elimination of gender disparities in primary and secondary education as called for by the Millennium Development Goals.

Inequitable and low levels of access to education low enrolment rates for girls, and persistent disparities between girls and boys.

Key result area 2 seeks to reduce gender based and other disparities in relation to increased access, participation and completion of quality basic education.

Ms. Patten said that she commended all the State party's initiatives to eliminate discrimination in education, but she was concerned about disparities between regions and between public and private education and about the lack of preschool education and adequate financial and human resources.

Addressing health disparities

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.

UNICEF will continue to promote a human rights based approach to education, placing high priority on support in situations when children's right to education is endangered by disparities or discrimination, or by natural disasters, conflict or epidemics.

The Government accorded top priority to education and health nevertheless, poverty remained a major challenge and development initiatives were being realigned in order to reduce socio economic disparities.

Deeper social disparities should never be viewed as the inevitable price of rapid growth, and more egalitarian outcomes in education, health, and gender should not be considered second stage reforms.

But why did these disparities arise in the first place?

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

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

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.

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

Unequal sharing of family responsibilities between women and men, for example, hinders the ability of women and girls to take advantage of primary, secondary and higher education and further education and training.24 In some countries, early marriage and other customary practices perpetuate gender disparities in school enrolment and completion.

Above all, it means addressing the income disparities in educational opportunity and attainment.

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

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

Corresponding targets require that by 2015, all children should be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and that gender disparities be eliminated in primary and secondary education by 2005, and at all levels by 2015.

Mr. Boone asserted that it had been urged in several forums that, in implementing the Millennium Development Goals for minority populations, States should promote affirmative action and special measures necessary for poverty reduction and reducing the corresponding disparities in health, education and housing.

Girls' education has faced multiple challenges arising from emergencies, the prevalence of HIV AIDS, deepening poverty and persistent disparities, while opportunities have been created by partnership initiatives, sectoral reforms and sector wide approaches (SWAps).

It is an environment that will produce deep disparities in economic performance around the world.

Thus, regional disparities in terms of economic prosperity may never narrow indeed, they could often widen.

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

(f) To prevent and eliminate gender and urban rural disparities in school attendance and completion rates

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

In addition, various structural problems including large and growing income disparities are causing serious disequilibrium in the economy.

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,

Significant disparities in smoking, physical exercise, diet, and alcohol consumption afflict many of Western Europe s welfare states.

The target set by the new five year plan is thus also a policy manifesto to battle these social disparities, which are now a burning issue for the country. But why did these disparities arise in the first place?

Eurobonds would not cure disparities in competitiveness eurozone countries would still need to undertake their own structural reforms.

Already large disparities in income and wealth will continue to deepen, amplified by higher inflation and financial repression.

Efforts have been made to address educational disparities between regions in the country, especially relating to ethnic children.

Horizontal and vertical segregation in the labour market was also responsible for wage disparities between women and men.

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.

South Asia is at a critical stage in its historical transformation, when deepening economic disparities could stifle growth itself.

As it is critically important to know how health and education services are used according to gender, so that disparities can be identified and narrowed, UNICEF supports improved collection of gender disaggregated data including through its multiple indicator cluster surveys (MICS).

The source of poor and uneven health outcomes lies in the disparities in household incomes and physical access to health services.