2005 Harmful traditional practices affecting the health

Combating violence and traditional practices that are harmful to health.

Harmful traditional practices affecting the health of women and the girl child

Harmful traditional practices affecting the health of women and the girl child

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Traditional harmful practices hinder equitable access of women and girls to comprehensive and affordable quality primary health care services, in particular reproductive health services.

Psychosocial support and mental health services to women survivors of violence and harmful traditional practices are very limited.

The adverse effects of the embargo on Cuban biotechnology have also been indirectly harmful to health in developing countries.

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Article 216 of the Penal Code provides for prison terms of up to 10 years for offences that are harmful to public health, such as spreading of serious or contagious diseases which produce epidemics, poisoning or contamination of water intended for public use and marketing of substances harmful to health.

There is some concern that plasticizers and solvents released from many industrial products, especially plastics, may be harmful to human health.

LONDON Is cannabis harmful to mental health? That question has provoked much debate over the years, often generating more heat than light.

(f) To establish or strengthen support services to respond to the needs of victims by, inter alia, developing comprehensive and accessible sexual and reproductive health services and by providing training to health care providers at all levels on the harmful health consequences of such practices

Violence related to harmful practices

To combat harmful traditional practices.

Considerable evidence exists for harmful effects of trans fat intake. Furthermore, trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils have no intrinsic health value.

Taking into consideration the potential harmful effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium on human health and the environment,

Harmful work

Reaffirming that harmful traditional or customary practices, including female genital mutilation, constitute a serious threat to the health of women and girls, and may have fatal consequences,

The Unit against Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (CPTAFE) runs awareness campaigns on female excision and other degrading practices.

Children also continue to be recruited as soldiers, trafficked as virtual slaves and used for commercial sexual exploitation and forms of labour that are harmful to their health and development.

Women's health is in a precarious condition, because of a number of interrelated factors, such as successive childbirths, food taboos, harmful traditional practices, heavy domestic and farm chores, that adversely affect their capacity to work and undermine their health.

Calls upon all Governments to give their full attention to the implementation of the Plan of Action for the Elimination of Harmful Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children

The EHS consisted of 55 main questions designed to obtain from the respondents data on, inter alia, exposure to harmful agents, histories of traumatic experience, and health status of family members.

And the only people who are left there are the people who can't afford to move away from the coast, because the coast, instead of being paradise, is harmful to your health.

A feasibility study will be initiated for a common programme of action to prevent or eradicate customary or traditional practices that are harmful to the health of women and girls (2006 2010).

Carbon Dioxide is sometimes harmful to the human.

learning how to assess how harmful nanomaterials are

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For several years running, the Netherlands submitted a resolution to the United Nations General Assembly against traditional practices that are harmful to the health of women and girls, such as female genital mutilation.

It can also include substances harmful to other animals.

but not harmful or intoxicating .

but not harmful or intoxicating .

On the basis of the nature, degree and duration of risk factors the safety or health risks of a female worker are assessed, as well as possible harmful effects on her pregnancy or on the health of the breastfed child.

At both federal and state levels, her Government had made concerted efforts to outlaw customary or traditional practices that were not only discriminatory but harmful to the physical and mental health of women and girls.

Such a failure is extremely harmful.

Protection of the health of the mother is effected through a broad network of special medical facilities through the prohibition of the use of women to work underground or on jobs that involve heavy labor or are harmful to one's health through the provision of work to pregnant women that accommodates their special physiological needs and state of health, etc.

Women's health Niger Midwives' Association Committee of the Niger on Harmful Traditional Practices Safe Motherhood Group of the Niger and the Family Well being Association of the Niger, among others

Measures must be adopted to strengthen the integrated management of the Caribbean Sea to reduce the harmful effects of pollution, prevent natural disasters and eliminate harmful socio economic activities.

If it is harmful when a divorce happens, wouldn t it be even more harmful if they live together while hating each other?

The 1998 OECD report in effect categorizes such treatment as a harmful preferential tax regime harmful tax practice (see para. 52 above).

In the context of defending the rights of the child, Belarus believed that particular emphasis should be placed on minimizing the harmful effects of environmental pollution on children's health and well being.

Derelict fishing gear was identified as the most harmful debris to ocean life.

In the analysis of the health condition of the population of Republika Srpska, a significant place is taken by monitoring the trends of harmful habits, such as consumption of tobacco, alcohol and psychoactive substances.