History Department - UN Goals: Reduced Inequalities

Race, gender, and place: How judicial identity and local context shape anti-discrimination decisions

Kleps, Christopher. "Race, Gender, and Place: How Judicial Identity and Local Context Shape Anti-Discrimination Decisions." Law & Society Review, vol. 56, no. 2, 2022, pp. 188-212. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/race-gender-place-how-judicial-identity-local/docview/2669110331/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12606

Climate Change, Public Health, Health Policy, and Nurses Training

Harris, Orlando O, RN, PhD,M.P.H., F.N.P., et al. "Climate Change, Public Health, Health Policy, and Nurses Training." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 112, 2022, pp. S321-S327. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/climate-change-public-health-policy-nurses/docview/2717341764/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306826.

Sustainable development and the social inclusion of disabled people

Čavkoska, Biljana. “Sustainable Development and the Social Inclusion of Disabled People.” SEER: Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe, vol. 21, no. 2, 2018, pp. 253–60. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26803067. Accessed 27 Sep. 2022.

• Evidence from developing countries shows that children in the poorest 20 percent of the population are still up to three times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than children in the richest quintiles.
• Social protection has been significantly extended globally, yet persons with disabilities are up to five times more likely than average to incur catastrophic health expenditures.
• Despite overall declines in maternal mortality in most developing countries, women in rural areas are still up to three times more likely to die while giving birth than women living in urban centers.
• Up to 30 percent of income inequality is due to inequality within households, including between women and men. Women are also more likely than men to live below 50 percent of the median income
• Of the one billion population of persons with disabilities, 80per cent live in developing countries.
• One in ten children is a child with a disability.
• Only 28 percent of persons with significant disabilities have access to disability benefits globally, and only 1per cent in low-income countries.

10.1 By 2030, progressively achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population at a rate higher than the national average

10.2 By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status

10.3 Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of outcome, including by eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices and promoting appropriate legislation, policies and action in this regard

10.4 Adopt policies, especially fiscal, wage and social protection policies, and progressively achieve greater equality

10.5 Improve the regulation and monitoring of global financial markets and institutions and strengthen the implementation of such regulations

10.6 Ensure enhanced representation and voice for developing countries in decision-making in global international economic and financial institutions in order to deliver more effective, credible, accountable and legitimate institutions

10.7 Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration and mobility of people, including through the implementation of planned and well-managed migration policies

10.A Implement the principle of special and differential treatment for developing countries, in particular, least developed countries, in accordance with World Trade Organization agreements

10.B Encourage official development assistance and financial flows, including foreign direct investment, to States where the need is greatest, in particular least developed countries, African countries, small island developing States and landlocked developing countries, in accordance with their national plans and programs

10.C By 2030, reduce to less than 3 percent the transaction costs of migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors with costs higher than 5 percent