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A l’occasion de la journée mondiale des maladies rares, Sanofi tient à rappeler son engagement dans la lutte contre ces maladies. Cette journée est l’occasion de mettre en lumière l’impact que les maladies rares ont sur les patients et leur famille. Elle vise également à mettre en relief les maladies rares et les personnes qui […]

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Les accidents de la circulation sur l'axe Zè-Plaque-Akassato deviennent de plus en plus fréquents. En l'espace de 06 mois (septembre 2020 à février 2021), 101 cas d'accidents ont été enregistrés.

Dans ces accidents, 14 personnes ont perdu la vie, et 91 blessés, renseignent les statistiques des secours rapportées par Frissons radio.
Au regard de la recrudescence des cas d'accidents sur cet axe, le ministre des infrastructures et des transports a interdit la circulation aux cyclistes et motocyclistes sur cet axe. Seule la voie non revêtue située de l'autre côté de la chaussée leur est autorisée. La vitesse de circulation selon le communiqué du ministère, est de 50Km/h.

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Une vingtaine de ressortissants Algériens se trouvent actuellement bloqués au niveau de l’aéroport Charles De Gaulle, dans la capitale française Paris. Ces ressortissants, parmi eux des femmes, des personnes âgés et des enfants, ont été empêchés d’embarquer à bord des derniers vols d’Air Algérie, après leur venue de l’aéroport de Heathrow à Londres. En effet, […]

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Die Polizei Basel-Stadt ist zum zweiten Mal innerhalb weniger Tage gegen Autoposer vorgegangen. Es kam zu diversen Anzeigen. Ein Fahrzeug wurde sogar sichergestellt.

Social development helps narrowing down the disparities between urban and rural areas; and gaps amongst different regions. Credit: UNESCO

By Siddharth Chatterjee and Amakobe Sande
BEIJING, Mar 1 2021 (IPS)

Back in the 1990s, the discovery of antiretrovirals offered a ray of hope to save people’s lives from the HIV epidemic. Over this decade, people living with HIV benefited from the scientific advances and began to have longer, healthier and more productive lives. However, almost all the beneficiaries were from rich countries in the global north. As a result, about nine million people died by the year 2000 due to the inequality in accessing these life-saving medicines.

It is a hard lesson from the HIV response, but unfortunately, it seems the lesson is not yet learned in dealing with today’s health crisis.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world last year and claimed millions of lives, scientists, doctors and nurses, pharmaceutical industries, and experts acted quickly to develop vaccines to prevent further infections. However, when the vaccines were developed, the same kind of inequalities happened. Research shows the world’s wealthiest countries have monopolised more than half of the production doses of vaccines, leaving low-and-medium-income countries struggling to secure vaccines. 10 rich countries have administered 75 per cent of all COVID-19 vaccines – while some 130 countries have not yet received a single dose.

Siddharth Chatterjee. Credit: Newton Kanhema

In a poignant message to WHO’s Executive Board in January 2021, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “even as vaccines bring hope to some, they become another brick in the wall of inequality between the world’s haves and have-nots”.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and underlined the widespread inequalities in the world. That’s why the theme of this year’s Zero Discrimination Day, “End Inequality”, is so pertinent in today’s world. In today’s world, we are all interconnected. Global inequality affects us all, no matter who we are or where we are from. We cannot achieve sustainable development and make the planet better for all if people are excluded from the chance of a better life.

Inequality happens everywhere: income, health status, occupation, disability, gender identity, race, class, ethnicity and religion. As estimated, inequality is growing for more than 70% of the global population, exacerbating the risk of division and hampering economic and social development. And almost two in ten people reported having personally experienced discrimination on at least one of the grounds established by international human rights law.

Discrimination and inequalities are intertwined. Discrimination against individuals and groups can lead to a wide range of inequalities—for example, in income, educational outcomes, health and employment. Inequalities can also lead to stigma and discrimination. Research shows that this social and structural discrimination results in significant inequalities in access to justice and in health outcomes.

Tackling inequality is not a new commitment—in 2015, all UN member states pledged to reduce inequality within and among countries as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. UNAIDS officially launched the first Zero Discrimination Day on 1 March 2014 in Beijing, calling on countries to examine discriminatory provisions in their laws and policies and make positive changes to ensure equality, inclusion and protection, particularly among key populations such as sex workers and their clients, men who have sex with men, transgender people and people who inject drugs.

As well as being core to ending AIDS, tackling inequality and discrimination is universal in nature and will advance the human rights of people living with HIV, make societies better prepared to beat COVID-19 and other pandemics and support economic recovery and stability. Fulfilling the promise to tackle inequality will save millions of lives and benefit society as a whole.

Amakobe Sande

Ending inequality requires transformative change. Greater efforts are needed to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, and there is a need to invest more in health, education, social protection and decent jobs.

We take this opportunity to congratulate China for not only lifting nearly 800 million people out of extreme poverty over the last four decades, but in the years since 2013, lifting nearly 100 million people out of poverty in the rural areas, setting China on course to achieve SDG 1 or ending poverty ten years before 2030. A significant milestone towards ending inequality.

Governments must promote inclusive social and economic growth and eliminate discriminatory laws, policies and practices to ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities. A people-centred approach is needed to ensure we leave no one behind.

This approach was explained well by China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who made remarks at the High-level Segment of the 46th Session of The United Nations Human Rights Council recently. He said, “Increasing people’s sense of gains, happiness and security is the fundamental pursuit of human rights as well as the ultimate goal of national governance.”

We all have a role to play in ending discrimination and so reducing inequalities. We can all play our part by calling out discrimination where we see it, by setting an example or by advocating to change the law.

We believe equality can and should be achieved. Let’s make it happen.

UN Resident Coordinator to China, Siddharth Chatterjee and UNAIDS Country Director to China, Amakobe Sande

 

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«BLICK Kick»-Experte Markus Babbel schätzt die Frankfurt-Gerüchte zu YB-Sportchef Christoph Spycher ein.

Im «BLICK Kick» spricht Markus Babbel (48) über die Chancen von Christoph Spycher auf den Posten des Sportchefs bei Eintracht Frankfurt.

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Jean-Loïc Selo s’occupe de la fabrication de perles créées à partir de la nacre d’écailles de poisson. Le but: attirer des touristes à Saint-Gingolph.

Portugal's agriculture minister Maria do Céu Antunes will convene by the end of March a joint negotiation meeting with all the three European parliament's rapporteurs to bring about a breakthrough in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) talks.

A magyar férfi kézilabda-válogatott jövő pénteken Pozsonyban, vasárnap pedig Győrben találkozik Szlovákia csapatával az Eurokupa keretein belül.

Die belgische Stadt Gent bietet alleinerziehenden Müttern, oftmals Flüchtlingen aus Afrika und Asien, eine kostenlose Ausbildung zur Kinderbetreuerin - den Nutzen davon ziehen alle Beteiligten.

Le groupe de télécommunications Ooredoo a rendu public, le 14 février 2021, son bilan financier de l’année 2020 dont celui de sa filiale algérienne, confirmant sa dynamique commerciale et son leadership dans le segment du digital et de l’Internet mobile haut débit. Ooredoo Algérie a clôturé l’année 2020 par la consolidation de son positionnement dans […]

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Le modèle économique actuel de l’UE « n’a aucun avenir » et ne répond pas aux « grands enjeux environnementaux » du bloc, a déclaré le Premier ministre du Portugal António Costa vendredi (26 février).

Der im April 2020 tot in einer Höhle am Bruggerberg aufgefundene junge Mann ist gestützt auf die bisherigen Ermittlungsergebnisse Opfer eines Verbrechens geworden. Dies teilt die Aargauer Oberstaatsanwaltschaft mit.

Until last week, the provincial town of Pokrov outside Moscow, lined with Soviet-era residential blocks and teetering wooden homes, had only one claim to fame: a monument to chocolate.

Március 1-jétől minden üzletnek és online kiskereskedőnek alkalmaznia kell az uniós energiacímke új változatát, amely kezdetben négy termékkategóriára vonatkozik: a hűtőszekrényekre és fagyasztókra, a mosogatógépekre, a mosógépekre és a televíziókészülékekre - közölte az Európai Bizottság hétfőn.