To improve the health status of the population as a whole, and specifically that of the vulnerable groups consisting of women and children.

Support for vulnerable groups.

Other vulnerable groups

It is also important to ensure that the vulnerable segments of the population, particularly women and children, receive assistance and to prevent all forms of exploitation.

These percentages are lower among vulnerable population groups only 75 of the poorest youth between the ages of 13 and 17 years attend school.

Legislation and legal instruments to protect vulnerable youth

Health state of the vulnerable population groups

Employment and poverty reduction policies will by more effectively implemented to help the vulnerable groups.

The Government is doing work to support the socially vulnerable segments of the population through the development of their initiatives, as well as involving them in entrepreneurial activities via training sessions and information programmes and programmes on legal and labour matters.

Promoting the use of information and communications technology by persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups

Care farms use the whole or part of a farm, provide health, social or educational care services for one or a range of vulnerable groups of people and provide a supervised, structured programme of farming related activities.

Community based reintegration projects are being implemented in areas of return to enhance the capacity of war affected populations to receive returnees and support vulnerable populations in rebuilding their lives.

The Ministers therefore urged all Member Countries to take practical steps in ensuring that ICT should be utilised to develop economies and societies of developing countries and transforming the lives of socially and economically disadvantaged people.

The Plan comprises several priority areas, including vulnerable groups such as women and girls and female sex workers.

In several countries, including Mali, Mauritania and Niger, vulnerable populations suffered from severe malnutrition.

Thousands of tons of cereals had been distributed free to the most affected areas, and other measures had been taken to assist vulnerable groups.

The Committee is concerned about the limited access to primary health care in rural areas, especially for refugees and other vulnerable groups, and that 7 per cent of the Serbian population are not covered by the compulsory health insurance.

Socially vulnerable groups need to be more fully included in the mainstream development process.

(c) In the Republic of Tajikistan, the right to social protection is enjoyed by the following categories of the public

In the case in question, Roma families had been camping illegally on land near the Olympic stadium on which facilities were to be built.

Moreover, since their aim was not to punish innocent populations or destabilize economies, careful consideration should be given to any effects that they might have. The suffering caused to the most vulnerable groups in the targeted State could thereby be tempered.

It draws attention to the fact that it needs these data for an assessment of the implementation of the Convention and for monitoring measures taken for the benefit of minorities and vulnerable groups.

Issues of land and property reform also require particular attention to ensure that the needs and rights of vulnerable groups, including households headed by women, are protected.

OIOS also noted the paucity of programmes and facilities to empower, protect or assist vulnerable women and children.

A wide range of economic, social and environmental factors affect the health, gender equality and participation of socially vulnerable groups in society.

Practices and approaches have been developed that enable local governments to play an active role in urban safety for the most vulnerable groups.

Our policies are geared towards the most vulnerable, including the rural population and indigenous peoples.

Efforts of working with vulnerable or special populations

We remain concerned about the humanitarian situation and, obviously, about the vulnerable population that is affected by this conflict.

Table 18 Population, by population Group over 65, Religion, Sex and Age, 2003 (by thousands)

There are no programmes of assistance for these categories groups, or for pensioners, but under the budget for 2003, significant funds were allocated to the social sector and these categories.

The research resulted in the publication of volumes on the protection of vulnerable groups, the protection of minorities, the protection of women's rights, the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, and the protection of economic, social and cultural rights.

(b) The perception that the criminal justice system is failing vulnerable groups. There is widespread recognition that indigenous populations and certain racial, ethnic, religious minorities and those with disabilities experience high rates of crime victimization and are often over represented in prison populations.

That situation impeded the implementation of sectoral programmes and the rendering of emergency humanitarian assistance to the most vulnerable groups of the population.

It is finalizing, with the Government, a plan that would target vulnerable groups through the mother and child health service and school feeding in identified disadvantaged areas.

(e) Wider recognition of the rights of women, children and persons belonging to minorities, migrant workers, indigenous people and persons with disabilities, and strengthening the protection of vulnerable groups.

Topics included census organization coverage cartography training and use of sampling new technologies data processing and characteristics of dwellings, households and persons.

Criminal justice systems are also seldom geared to respond effectively to the requirements of particularly vulnerable groups, such as women, children, the elderly and the poor.

Ensure that the targets of the Millennium Development Goals are met with respect to whole populations, including minorities and other vulnerable groups.

Such a strategy may prevent the spread of the disease and help ensure that these vulnerable groups do not suffer further discrimination, exploitation and violence once they have contracted HIV.

The Ministry of Public Health will need to build on achievements to date and extend the health care network, while ensuring the quality of services provided, in particular those for women and children, who are the most vulnerable groups.

(e) Focusing on special needs efforts of working with vulnerable or special populations

Continuous police training in protecting the human rights of vulnerable social groups, such as the Roma, remained a priority, with particular attention being given to the training of border guards.

She concluded her note with a preliminary review of issues to be addressed, as well as the need to address the situation of vulnerable groups and the importance of certain principles (for example non refoulement) to them.

(b) Encouraging and facilitating the establishment and development of cooperatives, including taking measures aimed at enabling people living in poverty or belonging to vulnerable groups to engage on a voluntary basis in the creation and development of cooperatives