The battle for full marriage equality is still a long ways from won, but adding New York to the growing list of states with full marriage equality is a huge victory.
Ms. Lakshmi Puri made a powerful case for gender equality as a breakthrough strategy for sustainable peace.
Twenty-two U.S. senators have told me they support the idea of including a marriage equality plank in a Democratic Party platform.
"Government policy hasn't been effectively challenged -- there is a predominant conservative view in society that doesn't afford women equality in a number of issues, including sports, " Wilcke, senior researcher in the organization's Middle East and North Africa Division, told CNN.
There is now a clear line of sight to the financial and emotional rewards of true equality that a previous generation of women wished for.
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Such a politics would involve more patriotism and sense of service to society, greater concern for equality and a readiness to limit markets when they threaten to injure human values.
The minimum wage has put a sense of equality back into a worker's relationship with their employer.
The great lefty dream of greater economic equality and a judgment-free muticulturalism are irreconcilable.
Perfect economic equality is a nightmare: nothing short of a totalitarian tyranny could ever hope to achieve it.
Instead, they are calling for economic equality and a proper say on the exploitation of the territory's resources.
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Marriage equality is a function of health and happiness in the first place.
Gender equality is a human rights principle, a precondition for sustainable, people-centered development, and it is a goal in and of itself.
"Jiang thinks the bilateral code of engagement should reflect the equality between a superpower and a fast-emerging quasi-superpower, " the source said.
Finally, this vision of equality as a social goal, with equal incomes and wealth for all, is severely counterproductive economically, and so makes for a poor society as well.
It aims for a world where all girls and boys are empowered through quality education to realize their full potential and contribute to transforming societies where gender equality becomes a reality.
Scouts for Equality, a leading group pushing for the end of the ban, said it would support Friday's proposal even as it plans to continue fighting to end the ban on adults, too.
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Besides the materials, the workshops that are held are highly adaptable and can be held wherever countries seek higher scientific literacy through the promotion of gender equality and a fair choice of scientific career.
While some observers believe the queen's signing of the Commonwealth Charter signals her implicit support for gay rights and women's equality, a Buckingham Palace official said the monarch is merely carrying out her official duties.
The only argument against this is that for a long time, Visa and MasterCard did not officially allow this to occur, and many consumers believe that fairness or equality is a virtue that should be extended from retailers in commerce.
How surprising then in this 21st Century, when sexual equality is a legally enforceable rule in most walks of our national life, to find that when it comes to the rules of succession to the British throne, women are the victims of the most blatant discrimination.
Recently, it has become fashionable to play down that progress by pointing out that many of the new democracies have not gone beyond elections to build the other, essential, protections for liberty: an independent judiciary, equality before a well-enforced rule of law, and constitutional limits on the abuse of political power.
His credentials as a social conservative on abortion and marriage equality and as a fiscally pure follower of Ayn Rand will certainly stimulate the right wing.
Pistorius' South Africa, a country with a storied history in the fight for racial equality, has a disturbing record of violence against women.
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Sweden, once a by-word for equality, has seen a widening gap between rich and poor, our correspondent says.
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Race relations have a greater capacity to inflame than any other social issue, reckons Derrick Campbell of Race Equality Sandwell, a local group.
It has been called both a "resounding success" by Steve Goldstein, head of the gay-rights group Garden State Equality, and a "bureaucratic nightmare" by James O'Neill, the interim school superintendent of the township of Roxbury.
It also marks a second major victory for marriage equality advocates, after a court recently struck down a ban in California when it ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
He pointed at a desire to see the race equality body succeed - a desire that in the end outweighed the warning signs that so frequently popped up over the years, the latest of which was the conversation above.
In addition, it will need to embrace a different rhetoric and give up on equality of outcome as a key objective.
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