The societal level

By providing for greater popular participation, democracy increases the likelihood that national development goals will reflect broad societal aspirations and priorities.

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Women are prohibited from essential forms of societal participation while they are the most vulnerable to social stress, deprivation, poverty and violence.

Development takes place within a specific societal context and in response to specific societal conditions.

(b) Societal rights and obligations

Announcer Six Societal decay. Announcer Seven

To ensure that all stakeholders involved in the decision making process have the capacity to be proactive, individual training should be oriented to produce participation at societal levels.

(a) Response to a major global societal problem

The societal one is a lot more challenging.

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

Our traditional societal heroes are wrong, because they are the exceptions.

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

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

It has come to embrace all the key aspects of societal life.

Poor health, on the other hand, is constraining individual and societal development.

Without societal justice, inequalities will consume the best efforts at positive change.

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

Economic growth and technological transformation affect human relationships, societal structures, values and lifestyles.

99. Fertility and mortality rates have societal implications that go beyond population counts.

This expresses the diversity of individual preferences as well as of societal conditions.

This is not the kind of societal problem that I am concerned about.

(g) To institute educational programmes, as appropriate, in the school curriculum that sensitize young people about the equal rights of women, teach civic responsibilities, promote confidence building and counter negative societal attitudes that discourage women's political participation

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 societal challenges that come along with that kind of inequality deserve some attention.

The Assistant Secretary General, referring to information support by the Organization in electoral processes and people apos s participation in societal affairs, said that the United Nations and its family of agencies must respond together to these legitimate expectations.

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

A great deal has been accomplished in laying down the legal foundations for societal life.

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.

let's consider one other factor that could be contributing in some small way to societal recklessness.

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.

The societal cost of this condition is huge, in the US alone, maybe 35 to 80 billion dollars.

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