Furthermore, it seeks to protect and assist the victims even if they have not been harmed yet or even if they do not request for protection.

Violators can face up to one year in jail and a fine.

Article 22 states that hospital ships cannot be used for any military purpose, and owing to their humanitarian mission, they cannot be attacked or captured.

They shall not be subject to any discrimination as a consequence of exercising their rights.

The Law defines among which family members there can be family violence, while the victim can be any member of the family, regardless of gender and age.

After lengthy talks, the three people abducted were released unharmed.

UNICEF played an important role in the fight against landmines, but much remained to be done, especially about the problem of unexploded ordnance (UXO). More children were now injured by UXO than by landmines.

(f) To protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence, within its capability

At the same time, Assad s loyalists, especially members of the minority Alawite sect, must fear that they would be massacred if his regime fell.

While the market today has no serious challenger, it is morally vulnerable.

Realizing that the movement of a significant number of women migrant workers may be facilitated and made possible by means of fraudulent or irregular documentation and sham marriages with the object of migration, that this may be facilitated through, among other things, the Internet, and that those women migrant workers are more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation,

The complainant had further been physically abused also by supporters of the Awami League.

This punishment is intended to be sufficient that people would choose not to commit the crime rather than experience the punishment.

Every year, WFP provides food aid to millions of vulnerable people who would risk their livelihoods and in many cases face starvation without humanitarian assistance.

Also encourages Governments to take urgent measures to ensure that any person who is in a waiting area and could be expelled is given basic guarantees. Such guarantees must include respect for fundamental human rights, including the right to obtain legal assistance.

As the Stern report points out, as usual, the poor are the most vulnerable.

I count on the support of Member States to ensure that our response to those who have been harmed is compassionate, timely and appropriate.

It also stipulates that persons providing medical treatment will not be exposed to legal action or harassment for providing such treatment.

Being children, they are often picked on and beat up by grown ups, but they have learned to adapt and protect themselves.

Provision of support and supplementary services, aiming at the empowerment, encouragement and confidence building of abused women.

Victims of natural disasters are extremely vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, particularly women and children.

Article 3.1 makes it clear that they shall not be subjected to discrimination for manifesting their group identity.

In addition, violations continue to be perpetrated with apparent impunity by armed strongmen in many parts of the country.

Second, Burma s generals know that they face a stark choice either maintain power or risk imprisonment, exile, and possible death.

The existing child rights committees had been strengthened and a national programme to assist orphans and vulnerable children had been formulated.

But, until the financial crisis, most Europeans assumed they were now far too wealthy to ever face the humiliation of asking the IMF for financial assistance.

Lacking the proper equipment, our troops remain vulnerable even as they are expected to be put in harm s way.

The Government's recently launched national plan of action for orphans and other vulnerable children was a major milestone towards improving the lives of children made vulnerable by HIV AIDS, poverty and other social and economic factors.

He did not have much to say about the countless real human beings who would be vaporized, crushed, baked, boiled, or irradiated to death if a nuclear war ever erupted.

The turbulence reinforces the lesson fundamental to the rationale of establishing the euro that ordinary people and businesses should not be exposed to exchange rate risk.

In recognition of the fact that significant national poverty reduction could not be achieved without accelerated economic growth, his Government aimed to increase the productive capacity of the poor and vulnerable and had allocated approximately 32 per cent of total Government expenditure for poverty related programmes.

The common belief that abused women are usually of low educational level is not confirmed.

Nor are there any global laws that prevent Chinese people from discussing events that their government would prefer them not to discuss.

I heard about women being molested in their beds, flogged in their burqas, left for dead in parking lots, acid burned in their kitchens.

The past year had witnessed 153 reports of such incidents in which UNICEF staff or their immediate dependants or assets were harmed.

New strategies had reduced staff vulnerability and enabled safer programme activity.

Union members also lobby for safe work environments and for better medical care, especially for children whose jobs present a health risk.

She also submitted a medical report from a hospital in Bangladesh, dated 17 August 2000, which confirmed that she has been physically assaulted and raped.

Representatives of vulnerable and minority groups had also had limited success in local elections, but more needed to be done to facilitate their nomination.

Remittances are already believed to be falling, which makes sense immigrants in rich countries are and will be disproportionately hurt by slowing economic activity.

Her organization is intent on using international law to hold accountable members of the Israeli military who put civilians in harm s way during the invasion of Gaza events that the recent Goldstone Report confirms.

Both international media outlets and netizens around the world paid homage to the murdered journalists, whose death captured headlines, drawing attention to the plight of Syrians being killed on a daily basis for protesting against the Assad regime.

Government parties were also hurt by the nationalistic rhetoric of center right parties, which repeatedly warned against a betrayal of national interests.

The Iraqis yes, they got rid of Saddam Hussein, but when they saw their land occupied by foreign forces they felt very sad, they felt that their dignity had suffered.

Second, Burma s generals know that they face a stark choice either maintain power or risk imprisonment, exile, and possible death.