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Assistance has been provided to destitute refugees and or to Governments to facilitate the local integration of refugees where possible.

They do an incredible job of serving very poor patients by taking the revenues from those who can afford to pay to cross subsidize those who cannot.

The villages that I visited in Tajikistan, Yemen, Mali, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Malawi, Cambodia, and elsewhere reflect the condition of hundreds of millions of impoverished people worldwide.

The governments of Germany and Britain will finance Namibia's land reform process, as Namibia plans to start expropriating land from white farmers to resettle landless black Namibians.

The ESCAP region has the largest number of absolute poor (two thirds of the world's poor) and several countries have increasing poverty levels.

I fancy it would be a simple matter, sir, to find some impecunious author who would be glad to do the actual composition of the volume for a small fee.

In addition, frequent bandhs and blockades, enforced through terror and the use of landmines, are creating immeasurable social and economic hardship among the already impoverished population.

The plan for 1992 1993, which also places emphasis on the very poor, aims at the provision of serviced land to enable people to meet their shelter needs on a self help basis.

It aims at enhancing the productivity of smallholders through environmentally sound methods and at creating income generating activities for those without or with little land, with special attention to the needs of women.

In some parts of the developing world, especially in China and East Asia, there have been real development gains and significant advancements in reducing both the number of absolute poor and the incidence of poverty.

Stresses in this regard the need for continued relief, livelihood assistance and equitable resource allocation to vulnerable communities, such as destitute pastoralists and internally displaced persons,

Stresses in this regard the need for continued relief, livelihood assistance and equitable resource allocation to vulnerable communities, such as destitute pastoralists and internally displaced persons,

In addition, an estimated 400,000 IDPs scattered in 34 urban settlements in Somalia and the destitute urban populations, including returnees, are in chronic need of assistance.

Guinean women are among the poorest of the poor they are not only poor in the economic sense but they are also less powerful, if we consider their relative position in the decision making process.

Underlining the urgent need for humanitarian assistance and continued relief, reconstruction and livelihood assistance, as well as equitable resource allocation to vulnerable communities, such as destitute pastoralists and internally displaced persons,

(a) Relief services direct relief to destitute refugees is provided in the form of food rations (flour, rice, sugar, cooking oil and protein supplements), blankets, clothing for children, cash assistance at times of crisis and shelter rehabilitation.

7. These consist mainly of destitute Armenians over 65 years of age who live in Cairo and Alexandria. They will continue to benefit from subsistence allowances, in the absence of any other source of income, and regular visits from social workers.

So a new, long term, economically sustainable solution is urgently needed one that directly engages with the communities that are suffering most in order to achieve the support of the deeply impoverished rural population.

Economic disadvantage, for example, should be no bar to bringing a matter before a court the onus is on States, therefore, to guarantee this freedom through the establishment of legal aid schemes to provide even the least well off with a defence.

Progress in reducing extreme poverty lagged behind in the ECLAC region, resulting in the increase of the absolute number of extremely poor people by 3 million between 1990 and 2004.

If by calling the mayors quot military targets quot , FMLN is trying to say that they were combatants, it must be pointed out that there is nothing to support the claim that the executed mayors were combatants according to the provisions of humanitarian law.

Zimbabwe s military and political elite has appropriated the diamond field s immense wealth for itself, with no benefits for the millions of desperately poor Zimbabweans who need the kind of services that the country has the resources to provide.

If Bachelet, who has already served as Minister of Health and Minister of Defense, is to succeed as president, she must transform this other Chile, where 18 of the population is poor, and 5 indigent. These are the Chileans for whom a lack of hope might make social unrest seem to be the only alternative.

Land owning refugees were the least in need of assistance, and with few facilities in the area, they were not strongly relying on UNRWA health and education services. However, it is possible that a new poor category will emerge, particularly among landless labourers.

And I realized so clearly in bringing my own life experience, from working with dying people and training caregivers, that any attachment to outcome would distort deeply my own capacity to be fully present to the whole catastrophe.

373. During the protracted conflict in Liberia, the United Nations provided assistance to over 700,000 Liberian refugees in neighbouring countries, to 100,000 internally displaced Liberians and to some 100,000 destitute Sierra Leoneans who had sought refuge in Liberia.

The villages that I visited in Tajikistan, Yemen, Mali, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Malawi, Cambodia, and elsewhere reflect the condition of hundreds of millions of impoverished people worldwide. Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high yield seeds, the results were the same desperation, disease, and death.

The provisions of the new legislation have abolished discriminations against reinstating women as landless farmers, since granting an agricultural lot in the past exclusively concerned married or unmarried male farmers, who could sell the lot that had been granted to them when married, without the consent of their spouse.