Sentences with phrase «unequal world»

M Marmot, Health in an unequal world: Social circumstances, biology and disease, Clinical Medicine, 6, 559 - 572, 2006.

559 (1975); Kaplan, Equal Justice in an Unequal World: Equality for the Negro, 61 Nw.U.L.Rev.

CEO: We were surprised by depth of the equity discussion at COP6, and it seemed to us that it had come some distance from 1990, when you and Sunita published Global Warming in an Unequal World.

In any case, the point is that the EU, by unilaterally committing to carry its proper share of the global burden of meeting the 2ºC target, would not only reaffirm its commitment to that target, but also prefigure the principle - based differentiation system that is necessary to support and sustain an emergency emissions reduction program in a profoundly unequal world.

This impasse — and its implications for the European Union — derives from the fundamental fact that the climate crisis confronts us in a profoundly unequal world.

Instead, it stood in tension with them, bearing witness to a history of cultural self - determination while underscoring the difference between her art's encircled harmony and the contentious, unequal world beyond the frame.

Development Education (DE), also known as Global Citizenship Education, is an educational process aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of the rapidly changing, interdependent and unequal world in which we live.

In this unequal world, the behavior of a dozen people in one place sometimes has more environmental impact than does that of a few hundred somewhere else.

In our unequal world one billion people risk their health through overconsumption while two billion people are hungry.

God and Global Justice: Religion and Poverty in an Unequal World.

We invite you to take a fascinating historical journey through the eyes of those who witnessed the wrenching change in a nation struggling to deal with its separate and unequal worlds.

Not exact matches

The government's findings put the city behind New York as the world's second-most unequal city in terms of income, according to the household income distribution report released on Friday by the Census and Statistics Department.

South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world.

According to the CIA's World Factbook, which uses the so - called «Gini coefficient,» a common economic indicator of inequality, the United States ranks as far more unequal than the European Union and the United Kingdom.

A major cause of world hunger, of course, is unequal distribution, both within nations and among nations.

It would also seem that in a post-Jenner world complaints about unequal pay for men and women in athletics are profoundly misplaced and merely part of the ongoing reactionary attempt to protect the imperialist structures embedded in these hatesports.

... Poverty and unequal dimensions of power, property and resources, are the main causes for growing social unrest around the world.

«18 Or with Donna Haraway's understanding of objectivity, which (she argues) is not about transcendent knowing, but about answerability, «not about dis - engagement, but about mutual and usually unequal structuring, about taking risks in a world where «we» are permanently mortal, that is, not in «final» control... «19

The policies applied in recent years and initiated by the «global leaders» present at the Davos meetings, policies defined by the GATT / WTO (World Trade Organisation), by the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and the World Bank, have led to a distribution of resources which is inefficient, unequal, and unjust.

While many more people now have better access to drinking water, sanitation and health care, the world is still an unequal place: 2.5 billion — more than one third of the world's population — still have totally inadequate sanitation.16 Artificial feeding of an infant instead of breastfeeding in such settings can literally mean the difference between life and death.

«We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most, yet reduced misery the least,» he said during a gathering of Latin American bishops in 2007.

The UK is the only democracy in the world to have reserved seats for clerics in its parliament, and the BHA has been campaigning for many years to have abolished this outdated, undemocratic, unequal and unfair tradition which, if retained, would seriously undermine the validity of any reform of the House of Lords.

It's welcomed by anti-poverty campaigners as a means of redistributing the grossly unequal manner in which the world's resources are currently divided.

One of the most controversial public health policy conflicts of the last five years revolves around Indonesia's refusal to share bird flu samples with the World Health Organization, in a stand against unequal vaccine distribution.

Gender inequalities facilitate unequal exchanges at the global level of the coffee exchange, as well as the micro levels, Austin explains in her latest paper, «Brewing Unequal Exchanges in Coffee: A Qualitative Investigation into the Consequences Of The Java Trade In Rural Uganda,» published in the Journal of World - Systems Reunequal exchanges at the global level of the coffee exchange, as well as the micro levels, Austin explains in her latest paper, «Brewing Unequal Exchanges in Coffee: A Qualitative Investigation into the Consequences Of The Java Trade In Rural Uganda,» published in the Journal of World - Systems ReUnequal Exchanges in Coffee: A Qualitative Investigation into the Consequences Of The Java Trade In Rural Uganda,» published in the Journal of World - Systems Research.

Noble, author of «Chocolate and the Consumption of Forests: A Cross-National Examination of Ecologically Unequal Exchange in Cocoa Exports,» recently published in the Journal of World - Systems Research, says this further impairs possibilities for successful or sustainable development in less - developed nations.

Inequality and poverty continue to be the region's main challenges; according to the Latin America is the most unequal region in the world.

These three men may have an unequal partnership (it is conceded that Miyazaki would have been Miyazaki without Ghibli, but Ghibli would not have been Ghibli without Miya - san), but it has worked for thirty years and made the company into an entity whose very name brings a lump to the throat of animation lovers across the world.

The critical ecopedagogy of scholar / activists such as Richard Kahn, Sam Fassbinder, Tina Evans, and David Greenwood operates within an overall dialectics of justice in which environmental justice and ecological justice (the former relating to the unequal distribution of harmful environments between people and the later referring to the relationship between humans and the rest of the world).

Ex-President de Klerk joined Global Education Magazine at its first edition in International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17th, 2012), where he published «South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world ``.

The participation gap: unequal access to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare youth for full participation in the world of tomorrow.

The lesson introduce learners to the unequal development levels around the world.

The world is still an unfair place to live with unequal distribution of wealth, causing a disproportionate poverty rate among the majority of its population.

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

Strauss also discusses the unequal distribution of water across the world — North America, for example, has one - third the population of Africa, yet people in North America use three times as much water.

The truth, as researcher Linda Darling - Hammond has stated, is that «the U.S. educational system is one of the most unequal in the industrialized world, and students routinely receive dramatically different learning opportunities based on their social status.

«The book's other major theme is that capitalism's unequal distribution of wealth is the root cause of the world's suffering.

From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.)... on the continuing unequal state of race in America... on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs... on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d) evolving environment... on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)... and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more.

According to Oxfam, «Brazil is one of the most unequal nations in the world, although it is one of the wealthiest... The country's high income concentration is revealed in figures: the richest one per cent of the population - less than 2 million people — have 13 % of all household income.

• 25 - year time - weighted rate of return calculator that tells the rate of return each year, and averages for multiple years, considering all of the unequal monthly cash flows that happen with investment portfolios in the Real World: Dividends / capital gains / spent withdrawals and taxes on them, as well as contributions.

It's the same as doing a «mini-financial plan» because it will take college expenses, unequal cash flows, and everything that happens in the Real World into account.

As the past few decades have witnessed how global power has systematically distributed the world's resources in unequal ways, concerns such as human rights have become increasingly tied to issues involving air, water and land.

In the still - unequal art world, in which artists bear the responsibility of imagining a better future, it is insufficient for feminism to be absorbed as artistic «content.»

if it were to be the latter then the rich world be at a decidedly unequal advantage.

Taking Lula's place to become the country's first female president, trained economist and former Marxist rebel, Dilma Rousseff, has pledged to help make Brazil «on of the most developed and least unequal nations in the world.»

Critics of geoengineering have long warned that such a global intervention would have unequal effects around the world and could result in unforeseen consequences.

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Brazil has a consolidated democracy, with strong institutions (that have been recently tested and have withstood the pressure), a very large economy (one of the largest in the world), and a society that, in spite of dwelling with urban violence, has been spared from terrorist acts, civil wars and regional conflicts, and is better educated, less unequal and more vigilant and conscious about its rights and roles.