The difference between 1215 and today is that now action is aimed at the equitable distribution of these rights.

ECONOMIST: Debating human rights

The Director-General outlined the main points of the Recommendation concerning the "development of public domain content" and "reaffirming the equitable balance between the interests of rights-holders and the public interest", issues which are expected to be central to the World Summit on the Information Society.

UNESCO: SERVICE DE PRESSE

Thus, it is our firm belief that the only way to combat the social ills of racism, anti-Semitism and intolerance is improved knowledge, attitudes and skills, so that in all parts of our lives we reject violence, protect the vulnerable and live by the values of tolerance, respect for human rights, human dignity and equitable life choices.

UNESCO: New Zealand National Commission for

For UNESCO, as for other partners in the AIDS response, this means working harder and working together, within a framework of respect for human rights as a cornerstone of effective and equitable national responses to HIV.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

By acknowledging the rights of individuals and groups and ensuring their equitable access to society, advocates of multiculturalism also maintain that such a policy benefits both individuals and the larger society by reducing pressures for social conflict based on disadvantage and inequality.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The struggle to make the provision of basic education in the United States more equitable has been an important domestic political issue since the civil rights and anti-poverty movements of the 1960s, and it was reinforced by a school finance reform movement that emerged in the early 1970s.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section