Protecting the vulnerable

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 protection of the vulnerable increasingly requires international and regional cooperation and the use of international instruments in addition to the reform of criminal law.

Protecting the rule of law at the international and national levels and protecting the vulnerable are at the heart of a strong multilateral system.

UNICEF continued to serve as a global convener and leader on issues related to OVCs.

The Triumph of the Powerless

Regarding dialogue with parties in conflict, again, let me clarify that this dialogue is solely for the purpose of ensuring protection of and access to vulnerable children.

The Optional Protocol will effectively help to protect and boost the morale of those United Nations and associated personnel who risk their lives to serve the vulnerable and needy of the world.

We would welcome any attempt on the part of the Ugandan Government to enter into dialogue with the LRA, while taking the necessary steps to ensure the protection of the vulnerable civilians living in northern Uganda.

These are the citizens who are in the streets, who demand change and reject neo liberalism, with its deregulation and failure to protect the vulnerable from abuses of power.

The strong will survive and the weak will die.

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

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

Comprehensive programme, including vulnerable children

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?

Thirdly, concerning the freedom to live in dignity or the protection of the vulnerable and the rule of law, we commend the Secretary General for raising the rule of law, human rights and democracy as one of the important pillars for the United Nations, along with development and peace and security.

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.

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.

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.

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Persistent and horrific conflicts on several continents are claiming the lives of innocent civilians, especially the vulnerable.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

These people include many of the world's poorest, most marginalized, and politically weak citizens.

We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the top of trucks, causing a riot. Hustlers thrive, the weak watch passively.

There appears to be consensus that criminal law should play a role in addressing the problem of domestic violence.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

The international community, led by the Council, must immediately find a way to halt the killing and protect the vulnerable.

Freedom and independence, to which we tried to point the way, are not accompanied by a sense of solidarity, especially towards those who are weaker and poorer.

After all, poverty is not an unchanging attribute of a fixed group it is a condition that threatens billions of vulnerable people.

The World Bank and UNICEF joined forces to convene the Second Global Partners Forum for orphans and vulnerable children.

The Law on Environmental Protection, the Law on Water Protection, the Law on Air Protection, the Law on Nature Protection, and the Law on Forests and Law on Waters, which regulate environment protection, will not be easy to implement, without international institutions' support.

Liu Xiaobo is demonstrating anew the unstoppable power of the powerless.

Some may still call it the rule of law, but it would not be a rule of law that protects the weak against the powerful.