However, discrimination persists, and access to opportunity all too frequently remains elusive.
Material safety includes access to things like potable water, food and health services while legal safety includes redress for human rights violations, non-discrimination, and unhindered access to justice.
The Forum will examine the challenges facing youth which impede on their ability to fully contribute to societies: unemployment, gender inequalities, lack of access to education, marginalisation, poverty, discrimination, limited or no involvement in public affairs, etc.
And, as the World Bank itself acknowledged in its report on the quality of growth, poor people in developing countries need more than just money - to benefit from any growth that occurs, they need more access to jobs and education, and less discrimination and corruption.
This success is the result of technological advances, increased access to treatment, and a reduction in stigma and discrimination.
"It highlights our need to tackle stigma and discrimination and to ensure vulnerable groups have equal access to care and treatment".
The State has also ratified and adopted progressive policies such as the millennium development goals (MDGs) and the convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women (CEDA) which guarantees access to education for all (EFA).
This discrimination is reflected most critically in a lack of access to capital.
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Our correspondent says that this is partly because structural inequalities make it difficult for women to access the judicial system, while there are long standing cultural practices that enhance gender discrimination.
He discussed Bush's staunch position against affirmative action, accused him of trying to "gut" Title IX -- which bans discrimination in schools -- and lambasted Attorney General John Ashcroft for seeking access to medical records.
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