Turkey lags in equality, ranking 126 among 134 countries in the 2010 Global Gender Gap Index.
But also, the disadvantages of growing up in extreme poverty pose a challenge to a belief in equality of opportunity.
Mr Salmond also said he must address matters of "key public concern" and ensure Scotland's legal system "stands in equality with every other jurisdiction in Europe".
The big but somewhat awkward truth--awkward in a democratic society that believes so fervently in equality--is that the schools make far less difference than your own ability.
Music's potential to surmount individual differences is reason enough for our ensemble to continue to enact social compassion and our proud belief in equality to our audiences, onstage and off.
In the divide over liberty versus equality, there does seem one basic value that both sides hold in common: a belief in equality of opportunity -- that everyone in America should have a chance to succeed on his or her merits.
Talking of London, your candidate for London and now Tory Vice Chairman Steve Norris was saying this week very strongly that if we believe in equality and so on there is nothing against the idea of gay marriages, quote "no moral barrier to the civil registration of gay partnerships", do you agree with that, you don't, do you?
The leaders of corporate boards, global stock exchanges and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission offered a bold vision of the future where equality in the boardroom translated into equality in the front office and the management ranks.
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If we believe in real equality in this country, then we have enormous work to do to help lower those inequities that exist.
The debate was attended by some 100 professors and students, and focused on current challenges in gender equality in sciences and education from Japan's perspective and in the wider international context.
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The Convention called on States to adopt immediate measures in favor of equality in education and, what is more, it linked the concept of Education directly to Human Rights.
The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms the obligation of States to ensure that persons belonging to minorities may exercise fully and effectively all human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination and in full equality before the law in accordance with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.
Jackson, says Mr Paris, has gone further in building equality than many other places in America.
The public sector equality duty, set out in the Equality Act 2010, explicitly recognises that disabled people's needs may be different from those of non-disabled people and says public bodies must "take account of disabled people's impairments when making decisions about policies or services".
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During report stage debate on the bill on 2 December 2009, shadow business minister John Penrose said wording in the Equality Bill could mean employers discriminating in favour of minority applicants rather than handing out jobs purely on merit.
But this bedrock belief in human equality and human dignity also has powerful geopolitical implications in our interconnected age.
This is a historic moment in the equality movement, and we hope you can participate in an event to show your support.
"This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain, " he said.
All partnership activities will build on existing programs in both organizations, with a particular focus on resources in Africa and gender equality in engineering.
Mobile Partners in Education by Laura Blackheart (United States) was selected in the Gender Parity and Equality in Education challenge.
Over the past few decades, women have overcome tremendous obstacles and have made a lot of progress in the area of gender equality in America.
We should not forget that an appeal to our courts to remedy legislative neglect is not without precedent: witness the 1954 ruling by the Warren court in the struggle for racial equality in Brown v Board of Education.
During her visit to Japan, the Director-General participated in a symposium on gender equality in sciences and scientific education in the presence of Mr. Hideki Fukuda, the President of Kobe University - one of the oldest in Japan, as well as Professor and 2008 L'Oreal Prize Winner Ingrid Scheffer, Dr. Yoshie Soma, Special Adviser to the University President, and Professor Roumiana Tsenkova, Director of Gender Equality Office at Kobe University.
Economic analysis is itself value-free, but in practice it encourages a cosmopolitan interest in natural equality.
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Former allies in the freedom movement would not necessarily be our allies in the equality movement.
Fellow member Madiha al-Naas specialises in gender equality, and told me about the concerns raised since the revolution.
More recently in the U.S., Quakers practiced socially responsible investing based on their beliefs in human equality and nonviolence.
"We believe any further accommodation of religious conscience in UK equality law would create a damaging hierarchy of rights, with religion at the top, " he said.
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