Support for vulnerable groups.

Other vulnerable groups

Legislation and legal instruments to protect vulnerable youth

Promoting the use of information and communications technology by persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups

Employment and poverty reduction policies will by more effectively implemented to help the vulnerable groups.

To improve the health status of the population as a whole, and specifically that of the vulnerable groups consisting of women and children.

The Plan comprises several priority areas, including vulnerable groups such as women and girls and female sex workers.

Socially vulnerable groups need to be more fully included in the mainstream development process.

In several countries, including Mali, Mauritania and Niger, vulnerable populations suffered from severe malnutrition.

Thousands of tons of cereals had been distributed free to the most affected areas, and other measures had been taken to assist vulnerable groups.

It draws attention to the fact that it needs these data for an assessment of the implementation of the Convention and for monitoring measures taken for the benefit of minorities and vulnerable groups.

In the case in question, Roma families had been camping illegally on land near the Olympic stadium on which facilities were to be built.

Issues of land and property reform also require particular attention to ensure that the needs and rights of vulnerable groups, including households headed by women, are protected.

The research resulted in the publication of volumes on the protection of vulnerable groups, the protection of minorities, the protection of women's rights, the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples, and the protection of economic, social and cultural rights.

OIOS also noted the paucity of programmes and facilities to empower, protect or assist vulnerable women and children.

A wide range of economic, social and environmental factors affect the health, gender equality and participation of socially vulnerable groups in society.

Practices and approaches have been developed that enable local governments to play an active role in urban safety for the most vulnerable groups.

It is also important to ensure that the vulnerable segments of the population, particularly women and children, receive assistance and to prevent all forms of exploitation.

(e) Wider recognition of the rights of women, children and persons belonging to minorities, migrant workers, indigenous people and persons with disabilities, and strengthening the protection of vulnerable groups.

Topics included census organization coverage cartography training and use of sampling new technologies data processing and characteristics of dwellings, households and persons.

Criminal justice systems are also seldom geared to respond effectively to the requirements of particularly vulnerable groups, such as women, children, the elderly and the poor.

These percentages are lower among vulnerable population groups only 75 of the poorest youth between the ages of 13 and 17 years attend school.

It is finalizing, with the Government, a plan that would target vulnerable groups through the mother and child health service and school feeding in identified disadvantaged areas.

Continuous police training in protecting the human rights of vulnerable social groups, such as the Roma, remained a priority, with particular attention being given to the training of border guards.

She concluded her note with a preliminary review of issues to be addressed, as well as the need to address the situation of vulnerable groups and the importance of certain principles (for example non refoulement) to them.

(i) Intensifying prevention measures, especially those directed at vulnerable groups, in particular women and young persons, bearing in mind that prevention is the mainstay of the national, regional and international response

China had achieved world renowned progress in poverty eradication, compulsory education, health care for women and children, and the protection of the rights of the disabled, the aged and other vulnerable groups.

The Ministry of Public Health will need to build on achievements to date and extend the health care network, while ensuring the quality of services provided, in particular those for women and children, who are the most vulnerable groups.

Their long term negative social, economic and environmental effects cannot be overestimated, especially in relation to their impact on vulnerable groups in developing countries, including small islands.

Vulnerable groups among young people, such as first time job seekers, unskilled workers and young women, receive special attention in various job orientation and training activities.

Such a strategy may prevent the spread of the disease and help ensure that these vulnerable groups do not suffer further discrimination, exploitation and violence once they have contracted HIV.

Community based reintegration projects are being implemented in areas of return to enhance the capacity of war affected populations to receive returnees and support vulnerable populations in rebuilding their lives.

(b) Encouraging and facilitating the establishment and development of cooperatives, including taking measures aimed at enabling people living in poverty or belonging to vulnerable groups to engage on a voluntary basis in the creation and development of cooperatives

The Government is doing work to support the socially vulnerable segments of the population through the development of their initiatives, as well as involving them in entrepreneurial activities via training sessions and information programmes and programmes on legal and labour matters.

There is thus a need to ensure that policy interventions to achieve the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty and hunger should take into account the needs and concerns of those vulnerable groups.

Care farms use the whole or part of a farm, provide health, social or educational care services for one or a range of vulnerable groups of people and provide a supervised, structured programme of farming related activities.

In the area of social integration, activities aimed at improving the situation of vulnerable groups have included implementing field projects, preparing studies and organizing seminars and training workshops to strengthen community self reliance.

6. Calls upon States to pay special attention to the situation of vulnerable groups, including by the adoption of positive measures, in order to safeguard the full realization of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

My delegation would like to emphasize three issues that we believe are important in protecting civilians more effectively from armed conflict focusing on vulnerable people, taking a regional approach and ending impunity.

The Ministers therefore urged all Member Countries to take practical steps in ensuring that ICT should be utilised to develop economies and societies of developing countries and transforming the lives of socially and economically disadvantaged people.

It makes the weak force very weak by giving the weak particles a large mass.

(b) Encouraging and facilitating the establishment and development of cooperatives, including taking measures aimed at enabling people living in poverty or belonging to vulnerable groups to engage on a voluntary basis in the creation and development of cooperatives

In the area of family law and social welfare, forms of protection offered to this vulnerable group of children, other than services of social and expert assistance, are adoption, custody, placement with another family or a social welfare institution.

Recalling that all the parties bear responsibility for ensuring security with respect to civilian populations, in particular women, children and other vulnerable persons, and expressing concern at the continuing levels of sexual violence,

Small, vulnerable economies