States may consider establishing expedited procedures, especially for vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, the infirm or disabled, or for non citizens.

The Triumph of the Powerless

Protecting the vulnerable

The needs of ageing populations are of growing concern.

The strong will survive and the weak will die.

The Ministry of Social Affairs of Denmark has maintained regular dialogue with individual senior citizens through the Association of Senior Citizen Councils.

One of the women was chatting to us, talking about everyday matters and laughing.

Large numbers of the elderly live alone, especially women who have longer life expectancy and make up 58 per cent of the elderly population.

For one thing, North Korea has the power of weakness.

There was the same silence from the Islamists, who apply the sharia.

Women account for the majority of the older population and most of them are poor.

Comprehensive programme, including vulnerable children

In Honduras, the Congress is discussing a law on the protection of older persons and pensioners.

Respect is for wimps!

that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

It is used in schools, public libraries, centers for elderly people and Guadalinfo centers.

The Committee is also concerned about reports of increasing poverty among older persons, the more so as HKSAR is facing the problem of a rapidly ageing society.

The preparation of a comprehensive study with a view to a common global formulation to serve as a basis for international covenants concerning older persons, guaranteeing the consecration of religious and moral values that call for the care of and respect for such persons

Weak protagonists make poor participants in peace negotiations.

Rather, it would enable the powerful to exploit the weak.

The time for leadership on behalf of vulnerable children is now.

Let us avoid creating a new legal order that protects the strong and condemns the weak.

Some took legal action against the alleged perpetrators, often their elderly parents.

These initiatives should ensure that seniors have the supports required to achieve independence, safety, and well being.

As of mid 2004, a bill for the protection of the elderly was being prepared.

In Bolivia, all older persons are entitled to receive an annual pension bonus.

In Mexico, a law on the rights of older persons was approved in 2002.

Older persons must be included in policy implementation and evaluation as a matter of course.

Declaration of the Doha International Conference on Ageing in View of Present Day Changes

It facilitates implementation of a national policy to integrate older persons in the formal and informal labour market, encourages life long education and promotes a model of the health of older persons among health care personnel.

So will a failed Peace of the Strong be followed by a successful Peace of the Weak ?

Moderates are repeatedly made to look weak, naïve, and idealistic.

It would also include those who have been victimized by hate crime and witnesses, especially child witnesses, who may be re victimized as a consequence of testifying in an adversarial setting.

The number of elderly Koreans remarrying has doubled since 1995.

A publication on living arrangements of older persons around the world will be issued in 2005.

Such behavior is unacceptable whether it is carried out by the powerful or the weak.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

He urged the international community to find ways to halt the killing and protect the vulnerable.

By 2030, China will have more elderly dependents than children.

At the other end of the demographic scale, the share of the aged is growing explosively.

The concerns of older persons are also addressed within the federal programme Habitation (2002 2010).

These changes mainly reflect the growing number of elderly population, as the population gentrifies.

This theme was the subject of a discussion of social policy on the elderly, social insurance laws and their role in providing care for elderly persons.