The income gap between whites and blacks more than quadrupled between 1984 and 2007, and a quarter of black families have no assets at all.

CESR to co-sponsor panel discussion on maternal mortality in New York

UNDP and UN/DESA are organizing an online discussion on Women and Poverty in preparation for the 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action; the ECOSOC Annual Ministerial Review on gender equality (AMR); and the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly, focused on the Millennium Development Goals.