Blog 2: Ignoring equality, rights and women’s health risks derailing development – UN officials

Summary

              The United Nations officials stress about this issue over inequalities and rights for all, especially for women and children as they aim to abolish extreme poverty in hopes to create a world of better sustainable development.  There was a international conference on population and growth development held back in 1994 that launched a historical landmark for women’s rights. This conference had started Programme of Action that aimed to “provide universal access to family planning and sexual and reproductive health services and reproductive rights, and deliver gender equality, empowerment of women and equal access to education for girls.”  Although there has been progress made over the past two decades, there still remains issues that haven’t received the much needed attention. According to UNFPA executive director Dr. Osotimehin, he says that the benefits are basically reaped by the wealthy and that over whelming population have been left out from the process and benefits of development. His stance is over the issue that the richest are excelling but the poorest communities including women and children relating to death, status, and child marriage rates are being ignored. Other issues he brings up are related to inequalities between men and women in political and economic power, poor countries not receiving access to sexual and reproductive health services more specifically to family planning.

Analysis

             This article highlights the gap between class statuses and how the lower economic class still are being excluded to greater benefits and left behind while their wealthier competition reap the better life. Not only does this article address the social class gap damages but specifically addresses  how women and children are being directly impacted by such ignorance as to ignore the simple fact that even though progress has been made, there is a larger demand yet to be fulfilled due to not creating equal access to these programs. If this issue can be resolved it could be the breaking point to opening up solutions to development, family and individual well-being, decrease the population growth for countries, and excel overall in a positive direction.  Families are being directly impacted because their human rights are being disregarded either by their social class or sex and don’t deserve such discrimination. The increasing numbers in statistics as well as the fact that this is not just affecting one region as well as could be prevented by social measures makes even more of a social issue.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47129&Cr=reproductive+health&Cr1=#.Uv5t1Pm8Dm4