They are yes, as opposed to subjectively on varying levels of personal familiarity. You'd care far more about your spouse or mother dying than a random person in a different country you had no idea existed.

That doesn't mean that a random person's life has more intrinsic value than your mother's, but TO YOU they will have less. Hence, lives are equal in a philosophical sense but pragmatically that's not how the world works, ever, or we'd be in a constant state of unending grief at the loss of our fellow humans 24/7.