It also empowers traditionally disadvantaged groups, particularly women.

The unemployment rate, especially among disadvantaged groups young people and women is staggering.

In India, the drop out rate among disadvantaged groups is estimated at 80 .

It will also address the needs of the most disadvantaged groups such as women.

There remain in Romania today disadvantaged and neglected groups who are pushed to society s sordid margins.

Especially disadvantaged groups in respect to employment are older employees, disabled workers and persons with special needs.

It also includes protection of the rights of members of disadvantaged groups who may be disproportionately subjected to victimization or criminalization.

(d) The continuing spread of poverty and lack of effective access to social services, which affects the disadvantaged and marginalized groups

Parties must also develop a school system (though it may be public, private, or mixed), encourage or provide scholarships for disadvantaged groups.

For example, revenues from tobacco taxation, which disproportionately affects lower income groups, should be used to fund cessation support programs that target disadvantaged smokers.

Without the necessary data for analysis, public health policies, for example, cannot be directed toward groups that are especially disadvantaged or otherwise at risk.

Greater efforts must be made and special attention paid to the needs of the most disadvantaged groups, taking into account the country's multicultural reality.

Many Rwandan Muslims are engaged in efforts to heal ethnic tensions after the genocide, are Islamic groups are reaching out to the disadvantaged, for example by forming women's groups that provide education on child care.

(a) Prioritizing budgetary allocations to ensure implementation of the economic, social and cultural rights of children, in particular those belonging to economically disadvantaged groups and minority ethnic groups, to the maximum extent of available resources and

The Committee urges HKSAR to strengthen its efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion, in particular with regard to disadvantaged and marginalized groups and older persons.

The Committee asked the Government to provide information on the action taken to promote the employment and employability of women, rural residents and other disadvantaged groups.

The individuals and groups benefiting from the CCP are located in all regions of the country and generally come from official language minorities or disadvantaged groups, such as Aboriginal people, women, racial minorities, gays and lesbians, etc.

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.

Public procurement has been employed to advance social equity objectives, for example, with special consideration given to businesses owned by certain disadvantaged groups or targets for women's employment.

To raise the status of all groups of women including children, adolescent, adult, elderly, as well as disadvantaged women 2. To draft the National Women Council Act 3.

Criteria based assessment in organizations can address these issues through a design process that incorporates multiple perspectives and incorporates views of citizens, especially members of the disadvantaged groups.

In assessing the impact of implementing PRSPs and government budgets on disadvantaged groups, including women, attention is focused on the development of gender sensitive diagnostic tools such as gender budgeting.

Subsection 2 of Section 15 states that the equality provisions do not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.

Whilst the Constitution provides in Article 5 for specific programmes to advance disadvantaged groups, traditional views on the role of women have seen little progress for women in the public arena.

There is no free national health scheme although the public health system does provide special concessions to disadvantaged groups such as people with disabilities as well as pregnant mothers and elderly people.

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) contributes to the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action within the general context of addressing the needs of poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.

Most African States continue to be seriously disadvantaged.

The evidence established that the overwhelming majority of persons affected i.e. whose benefits have been terminated are women, and most of those are single mothers, one of the most disadvantaged groups in Canada.

Improving the lives of the people in rural areas Supporting private sector growth Restoring good governance Improving participation by civil society Closing the gap between the rich and the poor and disadvantaged groups.

The Committee encourages the State party to submit in its next periodic report annually collected comparative data, disaggregated by sex, age and urban rural residence, paying particular attention to disadvantaged and marginalized groups.

But the fact is that India s massive economic reforms, which began in earnest in 1991, have had a far greater impact on poverty, and indeed on the incomes of several disadvantaged groups, including women.

Representing a least developed country, my delegation is deeply concerned that the challenges and problems faced by the least developed countries and by other disadvantaged groups received little attention in the Secretary General's report.

Then, protesters wanted to free disadvantaged classes from the oppression of capitalism nowadays, they would seek to free disadvantaged generations from the fetters of gerontocracy.

Following the development of a national plan of action for decent work in Nepal in January 2005, which also highlights the needs of disadvantaged groups, including indigenous peoples, in all policies and programmes, the main elements of a decent work agenda for indigenous groups will now be identified.

The Committee requests MSAR to provide detailed information in its next periodic report on the extent of the coverage of its social security system, including protection for migrant workers and other disadvantaged and marginalized groups.

Many of the victims are reportedly Albanian citizens or members of other socially disadvantaged groups, and the Committee regrets the fact that disaggregated statistical data in this respect are not available from the State party

Mainly, however, girls are disadvantaged, both as a group and as a sub group of the disadvantaged, such as the rural poor, ethnic minorities and indigenous populations.

(c) Facilitate greater access to primary health services continue to reduce the incidence of maternal, child and infant mortality prevent and combat malnutrition, especially amongst vulnerable and disadvantaged groups of children and promote proper breastfeeding practices

Puerto Ricans living in the United States reaped the fruits of colonialism They were one of the most disadvantaged social groups, particularly in the areas of employment, housing, medical care and social services as a whole.

Educating and empowering poor and disadvantaged groups around the world, including women, is not only a moral imperative, it is also one of the best investments in long term, sustainable growth that world leaders can possibly make.

Minorities are significantly disadvantaged throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in material terms.

Reading, travelling and working with and for the disadvantaged in society.

For many disadvantaged segments of the population, however, serious challenges remain.

In Osborne (2004) many libraries around the country are finding numerous ways to reach many of these disadvantaged groups by discovering their needs in their own environments (including prisons) and offering them specific services in the libraries themselves.

The Court Challenges Program (CCP), funded by the Government of Canada, provides funding for test cases of national significance in order to clarify the rights of official language minority communities and the equality rights of historically disadvantaged groups.