PHM-Exch> Food for a non-equivalent thought

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 307



*EQUITY AND EQUALITY ARE NOT EQUIVALENT; THEY CANNOT EITHER BE REDUCED TO
SIMPLE RISK FACTORS, AS IS OFTEN DONE IN HUMAN RIGHTS TALK. *(part 1 of 2)





[People too often indistinctively use the terms equity and equality. Let me
set the record straight of which should be used in HR parlance when].



*EQUITY**:*

Equity is a core legal concept intimately linked to the notion of justice.
It goes beyond the letter of the law and is considered part of natural
law/natural justice. By extension, it deals with the willingness to give to
each that which they deserve, or ‘to each according to her needs’. A HR
analysis can, not always but often, determine if a given distribution is
equitable or otherwise; it can, for example, not help in determining how
much more a pilot should earn compared with the person who checks the
wheels of his/her airplane.



*EQUALITY:*

Equality pertains to the principle which recognizes that the same rights
apply to all citizens. Equality is the right of every individual to receive
the same treatment. It is the principle behind all economic, social and
cultural rights, with its opposite being discrimination.

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Claudio
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