UNICEF played an important role in the fight against landmines, but much remained to be done, especially about the problem of unexploded ordnance (UXO). More children were now injured by UXO than by landmines.

The complainant had further been physically abused also by supporters of the Awami League.

As the Stern report points out, as usual, the poor are the most vulnerable.

Provision of support and supplementary services, aiming at the empowerment, encouragement and confidence building of abused women.

Victims of natural disasters are extremely vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, particularly women and children.

The existing child rights committees had been strengthened and a national programme to assist orphans and vulnerable children had been formulated.

Lacking the proper equipment, our troops remain vulnerable even as they are expected to be put in harm s way.

The Government's recently launched national plan of action for orphans and other vulnerable children was a major milestone towards improving the lives of children made vulnerable by HIV AIDS, poverty and other social and economic factors.

While the market today has no serious challenger, it is morally vulnerable.

The common belief that abused women are usually of low educational level is not confirmed.

I count on the support of Member States to ensure that our response to those who have been harmed is compassionate, timely and appropriate.

I heard about women being molested in their beds, flogged in their burqas, left for dead in parking lots, acid burned in their kitchens.

The past year had witnessed 153 reports of such incidents in which UNICEF staff or their immediate dependants or assets were harmed.

New strategies had reduced staff vulnerability and enabled safer programme activity.

Furthermore, it seeks to protect and assist the victims even if they have not been harmed yet or even if they do not request for protection.

She also submitted a medical report from a hospital in Bangladesh, dated 17 August 2000, which confirmed that she has been physically assaulted and raped.

Representatives of vulnerable and minority groups had also had limited success in local elections, but more needed to be done to facilitate their nomination.

Government parties were also hurt by the nationalistic rhetoric of center right parties, which repeatedly warned against a betrayal of national interests.

The Iraqis yes, they got rid of Saddam Hussein, but when they saw their land occupied by foreign forces they felt very sad, they felt that their dignity had suffered.

But his sharply reduced majority in the House of Commons, and his damaged personal reputation, mean that his political position is seriously weakened.

In the new kinds of conflicts prevalent today, civilians are harmed in various ways, including by forced displacement, forced conscription, violence, indiscriminate killing, starvation, disease and loss of livelihood.

Remittances are already believed to be falling, which makes sense immigrants in rich countries are and will be disproportionately hurt by slowing economic activity.

Her organization is intent on using international law to hold accountable members of the Israeli military who put civilians in harm s way during the invasion of Gaza events that the recent Goldstone Report confirms.

Even government deficit spending long the bane of Africa seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face.

The Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal were active in protecting the rights of women asylum seekers, who were particularly vulnerable, and their efforts were considered effective.

At the regional level, accommodation shelters exclusively for abused women and their children are provided since 2000 up to the present day by the Centre for Research and Support of Victims of Abuse and Social Exclusion (Prefecture of Ioannina) and Women's Shelter (Prefecture of Serres).

Even government deficit spending long the bane of Africa seems positively puny compared to the massive debts that the US and some European countries face. The new Obama administration is proposing spending plans that would create a record US deficit of more than one trillion dollars and this coming on top of the outgoing Bush administration s record deficit.

The General Secretariat for Gender Equality cooperates with the Municipality of Athens in order to renew the programme deal for the operation of the shelter for abused women, and the Municipalities of Thessaloniki, Serres, Kavala, and Komotini for the establishment and operation of similar Consultation Centres and Shelters.

Ms. Gabr, noting that the growing numbers of immigrants in Ireland was a result of the economic boom, enquired whether Ireland was drafting special protection measures for immigrant women, who were especially vulnerable.

With this information, parents can also open a civil lawsuit against them for damages and losses, Ricardo de Moraes Cabezon, a specialist in child and adolescent law, told the news website Uol. The campaign has helped to elevate conversations about online violence as being directly linked with aggression in physical spaces. This is essential to tracking the consequences of online violence against women and other vulnerable groups like LGBTIQ collectives, minors, and people with disabilities.

Lastly, she wished to know whether the Government was considering the adoption of temporary special measures to ensure that vulnerable groups, including Travellers, disabled persons and members of other minorities, were adequately represented in local government.

The programmes included registration of the birth of every child, awareness creation activities as well as reintegration programmes for street children, HIV AIDS orphans, commercial sex workers and other vulnerable children.

Furthermore, it does not appear from the certificates that the complainant, during his examination, made any reference to physical abuse at the hands of BNP supporters, but mentioned simply having been tortured twice by the police.

Attempts by other democratic civil society groups to debate this issue in peaceful public forums have been thwarted by threats of violence from a coalition of Muslim non governmental organizations calling themselves BADAI (the Malay acronym for Coalition against the Inter Faith Commission).

Realizing that the movement of a significant number of women migrant workers may be facilitated and made possible by means of fraudulent or irregular documentation and sham marriages with the object of migration, that this may be facilitated through, among other things, the Internet, and that those women migrant workers are more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation,

We appreciate the role of the Authority in the conservation of biodiversity in the Area, especially the elaboration of the rules, regulations and procedures to ensure the effective protection of the marine environment, the protection and conservation of the natural resources of the Area and the prevention of damage to its flora and fauna from harmful effects that may arise from activities in the Area.

Mr. Ali's detention status was revoked in October 2001 after an argument with a fellow inmate and following harassment by fellow inmates, allegedly because of his observance of his Islamic religion, in the wake of the events of 11 September 2001.

Since the cold war, more than 33 civil conflicts have erupted or been revived in the developing world, causing more than 5 million deaths and creating almost 17 million refugees and displaced persons, among whom women and girls have been particularly affected because of their status in society and their gender.

In recognition of the fact that significant national poverty reduction could not be achieved without accelerated economic growth, his Government aimed to increase the productive capacity of the poor and vulnerable and had allocated approximately 32 per cent of total Government expenditure for poverty related programmes.