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

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

After months of detention his father finally visited and discovered that his son was been subjected to rape, so he disowned him, backed by a long history of societal norms.

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

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

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

Advocacy of norms

), 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 .

International Norms in Cyberspace

Compliance with peremptory norms

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.

Of course, such norms are helpful.

New norms Guidelines relating to implementation

References to norms, laws and standards

New norms Guidelines relating to implementation

Development of new standards and norms

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

Their identities and norms are basic motivations.

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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.

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.

Ms. Hampson stated that standard setting was not only about creating binding legal norms, but also about creating standards or guidelines for the implementation of these norms, which played an important role in shaping the interpretation of norms.

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.

Understanding and exploiting gender norms offers commercial benefits.

The biggest is that no norms are available.

But laws and norms are also not static.

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

The basic function of the United Nations is to enforce agreed norms as well as to expand the consensus on what constitutes agreed norms.

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

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.