Sentences with phrase «affected by armed»

Mental Health and Self - Esteem of Institutionalized Adolescents Affected by Armed Conflict.

We are committed to protecting and supporting children affected by armed conflict.

Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.

Interventions for Children Affected by Armed Conflict: a Systematic Review of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Low - and Middle - Income Countries.

From de Colombian experience, where the regional realities are strongly affected by armed conflict, forced displacement and community deconstruction, the impacts of this methodology has been proven to be multidimensional, transcending the economic character, and empowering participants to be protagonists of their own development model.

Humanitarian psychologist Aala El - Khani, PhD, with the University of Manchester in the UK, has done extensive work in protecting and restoring mental health to children of families affected by armed conflict.

Not exact matches

However, critics point out that the program is very expensive (largely paid for by the public), that the technologies are risky, that the threat rationale isn't very strong and that this will affect international relations, and could lead to an arms race.

However, rates may be more affected by fears surrounding the implosion of the Iran arms deal than today's economic releases.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Regular donations are made to organizations that help women and children, including: New Beginnings (they provide shelter, advocacy and support for women and children affected by domestic violence); GAPPS (Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth); Open Arms Perinatal Services (they provide community - based support for women through pregnancy, birth and postpartum).

She developed tendonitis in both shoulders and one arm was affected by tennis elbow.

Firmly wrapping a baby with their arms by their sides affects the natural posture of a baby, which is to have their arms up by their face.

Conservative and Labour politicians have entered into an arms race on limiting benefits for new EU arrivals, although experts point out that any measures imposed by the UK will affect British citizens elsewhere in the continent, who are similarly able to claim benefits in their new home.

Hear him: «Let me assure you that if I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service; we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunition to work with; we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram's financial and equipment channels; we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas.

Adedoyin, who is the Maye of Ife Kingdom, noted that young men who engage in criminal activities like kidnapping, armed robbery and terrorism as well as women who engage in prostitution are partly affected by their growing up experience.

Many of the families affected by these changes are those who are in work - 300,000 nurses and midwives, 150,000 primary school teachers and 40,000 armed forces personnel.

The affected officers died in several circumstances, including during exchange of fire with armed robbers, motor accidents, stabbing, being run over by vehicles, and police crossfire.

By contrast, on average, patients with PD showed a twofold greater preference for their less affected arm, sometimes skewing their effort by as much as 70 percent toward the less affected arBy contrast, on average, patients with PD showed a twofold greater preference for their less affected arm, sometimes skewing their effort by as much as 70 percent toward the less affected arby as much as 70 percent toward the less affected arm.

The drought - affected people of East Africa did not receive international or domestic aid for six months, partly due to the risks posed by armed groups.

The proof - of - principle study shows a role for control of affected arm movement in the side of the brain not affected by the stroke, she says.

The velocities measured within much of the Milky Way are strongly affected by local gas movements such as expanding bubbles and streaming within spiral arms and not just the rotation of the galaxy as a whole.

Armed with this knowledge, the researchers believe they can determine the cell types, cellular functions and genes that are affected by smoking, and how that varies between healthy and COPD - afflicted lungs.

In other words, nerves in the arms activated and adapted to improve function of the spinal cord in other areas of the body, such as the legs, affected by stroke.

Now, by doing that, do I arm the «good staff» of the seeds or it does not affect the seed itself.

If you are disappointed by the way your body looks because you have small legs, tiny arms or a flat butt the solution is always to build muscle in the affected area.

Knee external moment arm length is not affected by training status.

The body parts usually affected by fibromyalgia are the shoulders, upper back, and arms, says Egoscue.

When his joke doesn't go over well, he follows it up by trying to take it more seriously, but so seriously it is also just as funny, as he makes a big to - do of it, holding his arms high in the air and affecting a mocking reverential tone to ask for the knife as he spins the prayer wheel — then spins it one more time to add the word, «Please.»

Among other activities, Pearson is responsible for setting and marking GCSE, A-level and BTEC examinations and it has not been decided whether the company's exam arm will be affected by the cuts.

Investments in foreign issues could be affected by other factors not present in the United States, including expropriation, armed conflict, confiscatory taxation, and potential difficulties in enforcing contractual obligations.

Additionally, while many conventional loans are affected by domestic and foreign indexes, the VA Hybrid ARM loan is only tied to the stable U.S. Treasury Index.

Adjustable rate mortgages (or ARMs), on the other hand, have interest rates that change over the life of the loan, affected by a host of potential factors, including time and federal rates.

Common areas affected by allergies include: face, ears, axillae (arm pits) and abdomen.

Usually, an upper arm will be affected first, followed by a femur or ulna, and often the problem will appear in another bone in the original limb or its partner.

The focus here is not on armed combat, but on the personal stories of the men and women affected by and caught up in the chaos of World War I.

The Armed Conflict Database by Uppsala University: A look at fragile and conflict - affected states that dives into minor and major violent conflicts around the world.

Black and White No. 3 affects us first by its formal qualities — branch - like arms, the coloristic positive - negative effect created by the red - orange number four embedded in the intensely black «trunk,» and its cut into the lateral horizontal ochre ribbon that seem to describe literal terrain from which the form rises.

In memory of these victims, and to stress the fact that this pressing issue is already affecting thousands worldwide, we stood with linked arms in solidarity, counting each victim one by one, with the goal of reaching all 21,000.

In polar and subtidal species arm growth is mainly affected by pCO2, whilst in tropical species it was mainly affected by decreased carbonate saturation status.

For these reasons, disclosure of the relevant documents would have disturbed the equality of arms between the parties by affecting the Commission's potential position as intervener (para 78).

By importing empathy into law firms, by seeking to build «Easy Buttons» for practice problems that affect the delivery of legal services to clients, technology, knowledge management, finance, accounting, marketing and other professionals can begin to arm law firms for the competition that will inevitably ensue in the legal marketplacBy importing empathy into law firms, by seeking to build «Easy Buttons» for practice problems that affect the delivery of legal services to clients, technology, knowledge management, finance, accounting, marketing and other professionals can begin to arm law firms for the competition that will inevitably ensue in the legal marketplacby seeking to build «Easy Buttons» for practice problems that affect the delivery of legal services to clients, technology, knowledge management, finance, accounting, marketing and other professionals can begin to arm law firms for the competition that will inevitably ensue in the legal marketplace.

The timing of BIMCO's release of GUARDCON closely follows recent regulatory changes affecting the use of armed guards on board vessels announced by, amongst others, the UK Government.

The Newcastle - based firm's D3 arm has been hit by the economic downturn and made 47 members of staff redundant following the completion of a redundancy consultation launched in July, with three fee earners affected.

The fee for the sale is still being decided.The Newcastle - based firm's D3 arm has been hit by the economic downturn and made 47 members of staff redundant following the completion of a redundancy consultation launched in July, with three fee earners affected.

By now Windows users should have received the patches Microsoft released yesterday to plug the widespread Meltdown bug and its companion Spectre, which expose most computers and phones to speculative execution side - channel attacks that affect chips from Intel, AMD, and Arm.

Solaris on Sparc V9 is not affected by Meltdown (Variant 3), which seems to affect only Intel chips and Arm's A-75 processor.

Qualcomm recently confirmed that some of its processors, more specifically some of the ARM - based Snapdragon processors, are affected by Spectre and Meltdown — a chip security hole.

The flaws were first announced publicly on Jan. 3 by Google Project Zero researchers, who last June shared vulnerability details with affected chipmakers Intel, AMD and ARM.

The Cortex - A8, Cortex - A9, and Cortex - A15 chips — which are found in iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, and iPhone 5 and 5c, respectively — are affected by the flaw, according to ARM itself.

It's based on the ARM's Cortex A75 core, which is confirmed to be affected by the chip vulnerabilities.