Training should include developing skills needed to recognize the sequelae of torture and sensitization with respect to contact with particularly vulnerable persons in situations of risk

The Triumph of the Powerless

The Committee considers that the State party has a particular obligation to protect vulnerable persons within its jurisdiction, including the mentally impaired.

The needs of vulnerable individuals including the elderly, single female heads of households, separated and unaccompanied children, and the disabled should be given particular attention.

Protecting the vulnerable

Active policies are a way of reversing the negative effects of industrial restructuring in transition economies and to help integrate vulnerable people furthest from the labor markets.

The rise in the number of vulnerable persons created an additional need of 66,198 metric tonnes in food aid, bringing the total food requirement to 464,385 metric tonnes.

The strong will survive and the weak will die.

At its twentieth session, in 2005, the Governing Council adopted a resolution (HSP GC RES 20 13) entitled Housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living for persons who are vulnerable and disadvantaged .

For one thing, North Korea has the power of weakness.

There was the same silence from the Islamists, who apply the sharia.

Comprehensive programme, including vulnerable children

Respect is for wimps!

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

Weak protagonists make poor participants in peace negotiations.

Rather, it would enable the powerful to exploit the weak.

The time for leadership on behalf of vulnerable children is now.

Let us avoid creating a new legal order that protects the strong and condemns the weak.

So will a failed Peace of the Strong be followed by a successful Peace of the Weak ?

Moderates are repeatedly made to look weak, naïve, and idealistic.

It would also include those who have been victimized by hate crime and witnesses, especially child witnesses, who may be re victimized as a consequence of testifying in an adversarial setting.

Such behavior is unacceptable whether it is carried out by the powerful or the weak.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

He urged the international community to find ways to halt the killing and protect the vulnerable.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Persistent and horrific conflicts on several continents are claiming the lives of innocent civilians, especially the vulnerable.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

These people include many of the world's poorest, most marginalized, and politically weak citizens.

There are conflicting views about whether legalization of voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, and of physician assistance in dying in Oregon, has led to an increase in the number of vulnerable people being killed or assisted in dying withouttheirfull, informed consent.

This resolution makes several references to older persons and requests all stakeholders, including Governments, local authorities, the international community and civil society to strengthen their focus and capacity so that more effective and concerted actions can be initiated to benefit vulnerable and disadvantaged persons.

We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the top of trucks, causing a riot. Hustlers thrive, the weak watch passively.

There appears to be consensus that criminal law should play a role in addressing the problem of domestic violence.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

The international community, led by the Council, must immediately find a way to halt the killing and protect the vulnerable.

Contacts

Freedom and independence, to which we tried to point the way, are not accompanied by a sense of solidarity, especially towards those who are weaker and poorer.

After all, poverty is not an unchanging attribute of a fixed group it is a condition that threatens billions of vulnerable people.

The World Bank and UNICEF joined forces to convene the Second Global Partners Forum for orphans and vulnerable children.

The protection of the vulnerable increasingly requires international and regional cooperation and the use of international instruments in addition to the reform of criminal law.

Protecting the rule of law at the international and national levels and protecting the vulnerable are at the heart of a strong multilateral system.