A/HRC/25/71 inequalities affecting the poorest, deprived of health, education and dignity, it drops to 0.273. And if we consider the specific inequality between men and women, Haiti is placed 127th out of 148 countries for the year 2012. 20. In order to better understand what these inequality indices mean, one needs to consider the UNDP explanations in this connection: the HDI in 2012 for Haiti of 0.456, “is below the average of 0.466 for countries in the low human development group and below the average of 0.741 for countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.”13 21. However, since the HDI is not enough to assess the real situation in a society, it has been adjusted to take account of inequalities. According to UNDP: “The HDI is an average measure of basic human development achievements in a country (involving three dimensions: long and healthy life, access to knowledge and decent standard of living). Like all averages, the HDI masks inequality in the distribution of human development across the population at the country level. The 2010 Human Development Report introduced the Inequality Adjusted HDI (IHDI), which takes into account inequality in all three dimensions of the HDI by ‘discounting’ each dimension’s average value according to its level of inequality. The HDI can be viewed as an index of ‘potential’ human development and the IHDI as an index of actual human development. The ‘loss’ in potential human development due to inequality is given by the difference between the HDI and the IHDI, and can be expressed as a percentage.”14 22. Thus, although the HDI for Haiti in 2012 was 0.456, which is already very low, “when the value is discounted for inequality, the HDI falls to 0.273, a loss of 40.2 per cent due to inequality in the distribution of the dimension indices […]. The average loss due to inequality for low HDI countries is 33.5 per cent and for Latin America and the Caribbean it is 25.7 per cent.”15 23. There is a further disparity in the Gender Inequality Index (GII), which “reflects gender-based inequalities in three dimensions – reproductive health, empowerment, and economic activity. Reproductive health is measured by maternal mortality and adolescent fertility rates; empowerment is measured by the share of parliamentary seats held by each gender and attainment at secondary and higher education by each gender; and economic activity is measured by the labour market participation rate for each gender. The GII replaced the previous Gender-related Development Index and Gender Empowerment Index. The GII shows the loss in human development due to inequality between female and male achievements in the three GII dimensions. […] Haiti has a GII value of 0.592, ranking it 127 out of 148 countries in the 2012 index. In Haiti, 4 per cent of parliamentary seats are held by women, and 22.5 per cent of adult women have reached a secondary or higher level of education compared to 36.3 per cent of their male counterparts. For every 100,000 live births, 350 women die from pregnancy related causes; and the adolescent fertility rate is 13 14 15 6 See UNDP, Indicateurs internationaux de développement humain. Haïti. Profil de pays: Indicateurs de développement humain. Rapport 2013 (http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/CountryProfiles/HTI.pdf) and Human Development Report 2013 – The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World, p. 158. UNDP, Indicateurs internationaux de développement humain. Haïti. Profil de pays: Indicateurs de développement humain. Rapport 2013 (Subtitle: Inequality. Based on the “Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index” indicator in this document: Human Development Report 2013. The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World. Explanatory note on 2013 HDR composite indices. Haiti. HDI values and rank changes in the 2013 Human Development Report). See: http://hdrstats.undp.org/fr/pays/profils/HTI.html (unofficial translation from English). Owing to changes to the UNDP web page, the document is no longer available. The independent expert guarantees the accuracy of this citation. Ibid. GE.14-10841