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

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

This could set a harmful precedent for the Organization's work.

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).

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.

(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

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,

but not harmful or intoxicating .

but not harmful or intoxicating .

Violence related to harmful practices

To combat harmful traditional practices.

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.

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.

Such a failure is extremely harmful.

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

Education for girls has a proven role in reducing poverty, improving the health of women and their children, preventing HIV AIDS, reducing incidents of harmful practices such as female genital mutilation and early marriage, and increasing self confidence.

Emphasizing the importance of the Plan of Action for the Elimination of Harmful Traditional Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children (E CN.4 Sub.2 1994 10 Add.1 and Corr.1) adopted by the Sub Commission,

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.

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).

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.

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.

Carbon Dioxide is sometimes harmful to the human.

learning how to assess how harmful nanomaterials are

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8 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Progress in Identifying and Eliminating Harmful Tax Practices, June 2000.

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.

Fear is more harmful than the sharpest of swords.