b. Cross sectoral issues, including contribution to the societal agenda

Actors in bold are the principal actors.

Actors in bold are the principal actors.

Actors in bold are the principal actors.

Actors in bold are the principal actors.

Actors in bold are the principal actors.

Societal issues found included violence against women, human trafficking, and child labour.

In addition to these, there also exists a societal reverence for motherhood.

1. Calls upon Governments, the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system and the non governmental community to reinforce their advocacy campaigns aimed at informing all major societal actors, including older persons and their organizations, about the decisions taken at the Second World Assembly on Ageing

), Nanoethics The Ethical and Societal Implications of Nanotechnology (Hoboken John Wiley Sons, 2007).

Indeed, abuses such as this one are common on both societal and governmental levels.

Society will be exposed to putrid legislation and that will affect the societal equilibrium .

The report claimed that the disadvantages women faced resulted purely from societal beliefs and attitudes.

People, who change their religion from Islam to another, are subject to societal and official pressure.

Societal attitudes already disadvantage women on the one hand and people with disabilities on the other.

Women continue to be excluded in extreme and significant ways from basic rights and societal benefits.

The exclusion of women from all levels of societal decision making is linked to their disempowerment.

The issue of changing societal attitudes towards women will be an integral component of this project.

Today, by adhering to those very values, Bangladesh itself is undergoing a quiet but significant societal transformation.

Bearing in mind that volunteering is one of the important ways in which people participate in societal development,

Trading against others is regarded as an inherently selfish pursuit, even if it might have indirect societal benefits.

The societal impacts relate notably to human migration and economic refugees, leading to deepening poverty and political instability.

It was stressed that expressions like situations of destabilizing civil unrest or societal breakdown would themselves require definition.

As societal structures and common norms of behaviour gradually break down, the vulnerability of the population increases sharply.

A woman's value is less than that of a man and her inferiority is embedded in societal structures.

There are however societal attitudes, which sometimes hinder women's access to healthcare in some remote and underdeveloped areas.

Involvement of non State actors

Involvement of non State actors

Citizens are actors, not spectators.

This depression is probably inevitable. But, on a societal scale, it is eventually overcome, as new generations grow up.

So there is a structural failure in coping with complex private activities that risk leading to large societal damage.

The technologies of the Internet were thought to fragment societal forces rather than unite them in a common cause.

New and bold yet pragmatic initiatives are therefore needed that combine the efforts of local actors and external actors.

Human rights and non State actors

Human rights and non State actors

Taxes on speculative activity might encourage banks to focus greater attention on performing their key societal role of providing credit.

In a different spectrum of societal norms the Goals 2 and 6 are being threatened by an age old privilege.

Conversely, some disasters have been instrumental in aggravating societal tensions, as was the case in Nicaragua after the 1972 earthquake.

Achieving the health and nutrition related Millennium Development Goals requires political, institutional and societal solutions as well as technical ones.

It had also focused on raising public awareness of the terrorist threat and on strengthening societal harmony and national resilience.

We also share the concern regarding the report's suggestion of initiating direct contact by United Nations actors with non State actors.

Their governments would fight hard to protect these companies from being required to pay for the societal risks that they represent.

Russia and China remain the lead actors.

Role of civil society and private actors

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