But, while these policies have reduced inequalities in some social and economic outcomes, including income, housing quality, and health care access, they have been insufficient to eliminate health inequalities.

If social inequalities were to reach new heights, their frustration and resentment could manifest itself fully.

But if we want freedom, then social and economic inequalities are a legitimate, and necessary, price to pay.

Socialism, too, was a brave and necessary corrective to the social inequalities that emerged from laissez faire capitalism.

Social exclusion and personalized power through wealth are always unacceptable. But if we want freedom, then social and economic inequalities are a legitimate, and necessary, price to pay.

Thus, vast inequalities of power, social standing, and economic well being were part and parcel of the forging of the Americas.

Greater attention must be given to the informal economy as it does not provide social protection and may deepen gender inequalities.

Various observers for States stressed the importance of collecting statistical data to identify social inequalities and their links with gender and ethnicity.

Of course, inequalities between countries are one thing, and inequalities within countries are quite another.

We need focused social policies to address inequalities and to reduce poverty, in accordance with the commitments undertaken in the Millennium Development Goals.

(ii) Taking effective measures aimed at overcoming social inequalities and creating an environment that is conducive to development and to the elimination of poverty

Europe s social market economies, far more than the Anglo Saxon neo liberal model, regard mitigating the inequalities created by markets as the state s duty.

The prevailing explanation for health inequalities is rooted in the social determinants of health that is, the environments in which people work and live.

In several countries, access to leisure time activities is limited by stark inequalities based on gender, religious affiliation, social and economic conditions and disabilities.

Indigenous and tribal peoples often live in pockets of poverty as they, in particular indigenous women, are exposed to social exclusion and structural inequalities.

However, decreased social protection and basic services in some areas have increased gender inequalities (see E CN.6 2005 2 and Corr.1, para.

Income and wealth inequalities worsened.

Some are even reducing inequalities.

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.

The Government is currently preparing Guidelines on Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to address the remaining inequalities, including gender inequalities, in work.

Those documents provide a road map for social and economic development an explicit commitment to tackle inequalities in income, opportunity and power, to promote social integration and to address the issue of the social protection and welfare of children, youth, the elderly and disabled persons.

But significant challenges and massive inequalities remain.

Inequalities should not be frozen and perpetuated.

In places like south Lebanon, which suffer from deep social cleavages and inequalities, free elections and free trade hold little resonance for people who are impoverished and marginalized.

The life course approach combines multiple theories to contend that the unequal accumulation of social, psychological, and biological advantages or disadvantages over time, beginning in utero, produces health inequalities.

We commend the Secretary General for his initiative aimed at enabling young people to get a foothold in the labour market, thereby contributing to the reduction of social inequalities.

The widening of ethnic inequalities in countries where indigenous and tribal peoples live show that conventional anti poverty policies fail to tackle the social and economic exclusion facing these peoples.

In the decade since, economic globalization has expanded dramatically, while social and political institutions have remained largely national, not providing needed oversight of global markets to redress inequalities among countries.

In the distribution by courses, there are pronounced inequalities.

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.

They also spring from different factors, such as frustration with rising food prices and widespread corruption, coupled with demands for greater democratization, reduction of economic and social inequalities, and job creation.

This approach should be integrated into youth policies in order to further reduce the social, cultural and economic inequalities that prevent the enjoyment of the basic rights of all young people.

Supporting universal HIV AIDS education, taking gender inequalities into account

Such inequalities exist, to varying degrees, in all developed countries.

It is well known that the dire situations usually linked to social, political and cultural oppression, as well as severe economic inequalities, often create an environment favourable to the development of extremism.

But, beyond all those activities, the international community must address social inequalities and injustice in short, underdevelopment and conflict, because these indicate dysfunctionality in the system that can generate violence and extremism.

But emphasizing the reduction of social inequalities does not sit easily with America s profoundly individualistic ethos, and the attempt to Europeanize the nature of the social contract between the state and its citizens might yet crash against the constitutive principles of the American system.

It is defined either as a political doctrine that all people should be treated as equals and have the same political, economic, social, and civil rights or as a social philosophy advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people or the decentralization of power.

The 2004 report of the World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization suggests means for reducing inequalities in the global economic system and recommends that decent work becomes a global development goal.

The Economic and Social Council should be a privileged, deliberative forum in our quest for reconciliation between the objectives of sustainable economic growth and the reduction of the inequalities caused by asymmetric globalization.

The Ministers declared that the imbalances and inequalities found in global trade and the debt burden still constitute monumental hindrances to genuine social, economic and political progress in developing nations of the world.

So there is a spirit of equality, combined with deep inequalities.

International inequalities, while large three decades ago, have worsened ever since.

And our numbers keep growing, with corresponding pressures on land, energy, food, and water. The global economy is generating pressures as well rising joblessness, widening social inequalities, and the emergence of new economic powers.

An important step towards reducing existing inequalities had been the adoption, in 2002, of the Social and Population Development Policy, which set out strategic objectives for improving the living standards of the indigenous population.