La ONU lamenta que las mujeres tengan acceso limitado a la justicia y la sanidad

 

U.N. Update: Barriers to Women's Access to Justice and Health Care Persist


By MEREDITH MELNICK



As it does each year in advance of the G8 meeting, the United Nations released an update on Tuesday on its progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), a series of initiatives set forth in 2000 to improve conditions for the world's poorest and most disadvantaged inhabitants, while fostering environmental sustainability, development and global partnerships.


The new report, released by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, notes that more and more girls are entering secondary school around the world than ever before. But at the same time, improvements in maternal health care, family planning services and equal access to the judicial system have stalled, creating profound roadblocks to female empowerment and gender parity in most of the U.N.'s 192 participating countries.


With only four years to go before 2015 benchmark deadlines, there is a substantial amount left to do — especially regarding issues related to women and girls.


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