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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 289</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222">THE CORNERSTONE OF EQUALITY
AND OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS TO VALUE ALL PERSONS EQUALLY.</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in">-Inequalities are staring us in
the face now, but will be shouting at us after MDGs-year 2015. <span style><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in">-Once and for all: There is no
such a thing a ‘moderately equitable’ or ‘equitable inequalities’. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><b style>Equality</b>
is achieved in situations in which all persons in a society enjoy equal (the
same) access to available goods and services necessary to fulfill their basic
human needs. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">By extension, e<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:#222222">quality seeks ‘equality for
all persons in their dignity and their human rights’.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#222222"> So, to achieve
equality, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">note that <i style>dignity</i> and <i style>indignation</i>
have a common etymologic root!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Equity </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">is achieved
in situations in which everyone is treated ‘fairly’ (not necessarily the same). Equity is related to distributive justice, to being just, to being fair or
impartial.</span> But beware: What is fair is not necessarily equal and
what is equal is not necessarily fair. Everyone knows what is equal, but no
one, under the circumstances, knows likewise what is fair.<span style> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Equality entails processes
that stand for dignity and for non-discrimination (a human rights principle). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Equity entails processes that
stand for fairness and justice (a concept of justice).</span></p>
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