This article discuses UN women as well
as UNICEF women who came together to discuss and address the inequalities in
relation to the post-2015 development agenda. Some of the key messages that
came out of the discussion were that inequalities concern everyone, such as
violence against women, exclusion of people with disabilities, and child
deprivations, which are issues that people all over the world face. This
article states that global action needs to take place so that these issues of
inequality can be handled and hopefully fixed. This article also discuses that
inequality is not just faced by those most directly affected by disadvantage,
but those inequalities are widespread and often growing. Children are left with
poor education, poor nutrition and low future productivity. Another important
factor that is addressed is poverty, where the impacts of inequalities are then
transmitted to future generations and then continuing, generation after
generation. When a family is born into poverty it is extremely hard to rise
above and get out of it. Along with
these inequalities come discriminations as well as prejudice. The question that
kept coming back was how political leaders and decision makers can put an end
to all this, which they stated that only the use of human rights framework for
development would help ensure accountability and transformative approaches.
Basically, leaders need to start actually making laws and regulations in order
for change to occur.
Overall I feel that this article
touches on some extremely important issues that are happening all around the
world. People are being treated poorly and nothing is being done about it. How
do people who grow up and are born into poverty make a better life for
themselves, without discrimination and all the difficulties that come along
with being poor? How do we allow poor countries the ability to offer education
so that children will be able to find a decent job and receive a good
education? There seems to be so many issues that are going on around the world
that a lot of people do not think about simply because it is not affecting them.
Just like the article states accountability will be at the core of all this.
People need to take into account about what is going on in our world today, and
people also need to take action and be accountable for their actions as well.
Meredith Casacchia
2/15/13 1:13pm
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