In Maslow's pyramid of human needs, the base is made up of basic needs for survival, especially the economic ones, and ends with intellectual, cultural and political needs and values. In society, the same formula is applicable.

Fifth, the parties must identify practical means to ensure that the basic survival needs of their forces are met, including food supplies for the combatants, without violating the ceasefire.

As a rule, women and children are the main victims of armed conflict, because conflicts confine them to places where they have no access to their basic needs for survival.

(i) Public education programs that must be linked with income generating activities that eliminate the need to rely on scrap metal collection as the means to meet basic survival needs

In this system, there is no hierarchy of needs (apart from the basic need for subsistence or survival) as postulated by Western psychologists such as Maslow, rather, simultaneity, complementarity and trade offs are features of the process of needs satisfaction.

To be sure, the selfish gene needs to be altruistic insofar as its survival depends on the survival of the kinship group.

Without these none of the four basic needs can be sustained.

13 45 per person per year are required to meet basic infrastructural needs, 30 per person per year for basic health needs, 15 per person per year for basic education, and 10 per person per year for other high priority items.

Recognizing that development can only be sustainable on a long term basis if development policies are responsive to people's needs and ensure people's participation both in their design and implementation, while stressing the fact that meeting the basic human needs essential for survival is a sine qua non condition for an effective democracy,

Their biggest and most compelling challenge is to meet citizens basic needs.

It helps people in the poorest countries to meet their basic needs.

Minimum survival needs of refugees were not always met nor were refugees necessarily safe in countries of asylum.

Vital human needs means waters used for immediate human survival, including drinking, cooking, and sanitary needs, as well as water needed for the immediate sustenance of a household.

If anything, those resources should be increased in order to fulfil basic humanitarian needs.

Because it is fighting for its own survival in a highly challenging environment, the Jordanian regime needs Israel s security collaboration.

It is thus urgent to satisfy populations most basic human needs through local development initiatives.

Generally, the Internet is a tool for people whose basic needs are already being met.

A regime that cannot respond to its citizens basic needs has no legitimacy at all.

Women's advancement could only be achieved if women's health needs at basic levels were addressed.

Accelerating development and meeting people's basic needs would go a long way to improving security.

Over half the children in the developing world still live without the basic services, commodities and protection which are critical for their survival and development.

It fulfills important physiological needs vital for survival to the extent that prolonged REM sleep deprivation leads to death in experimental animals.

On the bottom tier we have basic needs shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth.

The needs are basic promoting breastfeeding, food supplies for young children, and medical attention for mothers.

Poland s economy, close to outright collapse, struggled to meet citizens basic needs, let alone repay foreign loans.

In my house we can't get basic needs such as, No foods, No bread, and Natural gas.

Through the Emergency Shelter Program, homeless persons receive shelter, food and other services to meet basic needs.

Haiti is a country with a per capital gross national product of 415, whose inhabitants lack the basic resources necessary for survival with a minimum of dignity.

Attending to such basic needs in a way that manages scarcities and surpluses regionally has a powerful logic.

Poverty in Africa refers to the lack of basic human needs faced by certain people in African society.

Table 1 Poverty levels, calculated using the unmet basic needs (UBN) method, 1998 2001 (Percentages of the population)

There is a link between purely military action and economic action aimed at meeting the people's basic needs.

Delegations, especially from Africa, welcomed the emphasis on immunization within the focus area on child survival and development, on HIV AIDS and on basic education and gender equality.

The astounding difficulty of everyday survival following the USSR s collapse trapped most Russians into focusing on their families most urgent needs. Civic apathy set in.

Higher food prices meant that poor people, already struggling to meet basic human needs, were pushed deeper into poverty.

The basic idea of sovereignty, which still provides a useful constraint on violence between states, needs to be preserved.

Destitute groups of the population include the elderly, pensioners by and large, whose pensions cannot satisfy basic living needs.

Cultural Survival

Sacrifice used to involve ransoming the body its pleasures, basic needs, and even vitality for the sake of the spirit.

She noted that 2.5 million grandparents say they are responsible for the basic needs of the grandchild living with them.

Even among those employed, 45 per cent do not earn enough to provide for the basic needs of their families.

The program provides for a person's basic needs while encouraging and supporting them in their efforts to become self sufficient.

That is the centrepiece of peacebuilding building peace by building good governance, meeting basic human needs and fostering social harmony.

This focus on material improvement aimed at meeting basic needs makes sense for a country at Bhutan s relatively low income level.

Competing groups struggle to stay alive in the face of a shortage of food, water, pasture land, and other basic needs.