Sentences with phrase «for vulnerable victims»

With well over 1,000 online dating sites, scammers are regularly trolling these sites looking for vulnerable victims.

Not exact matches

She'd lull her victim into a false sense of security and once his defenses were dissolved into complacency by a soft, girly, vulnerable illusion, Corcoran would go in for the kill, a red widow spider of real estate.
It is time for them to resolve their partisan differences and pass the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, which is crucial to the well - being and protection of our most vulnerable youth.
They help thousands of homeless and youth victims of trafficking make the challenging transition to self - sufficiency, protecting and advocating for one of the most vulnerable populations.
The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.
Justice For Children International is by no means alone, we are a founding members of Stop the Traffik, a major global coalition with over 300 member organisations based out of the U.K. Stop the Traffik works together to help stop the sale of people, to see the traffickers prosecuted, and to protect the victims of human trafficking and those vulnerable to this crime.
The «core values» of all the world's religions include a belief in the integrity of each human being and in our responsibility for one another, with special obligations toward the poor, the vulnerable and «the victims of oppression or tyranny.»
What's worse, she violates victims when they are most vulnerable, in pain and unable to advocate for themselves.
«Parents who turn to the CMS rather than reaching a private agreement are often victims of domestic abuse - closing off this route to support leaves parents and children more vulnerable to destitution and shifts the costs of caring for the child away from the parent responsible.»
She is also currently co-chair of a Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine working party to set quality standards for healthcare of vulnerable victims of torture and other serious harm in detention.
PROTECT women, children and any vulnerable New Yorkers by fighting for legislation that would promote greater accountability for harassment issues and prohibit confidentiality agreements unless the victim requests that his or her identity be kept private.
«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.
The die - off, which has subsided after claiming as many as 20,000 victims, is another blow to the long - term prospects for the Caspian seal, a population of around 400,000 animals that is listed by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable to extinction.
Furthermore, findings were similarly protective among important groups who account for a large proportion of deaths or who are particularly vulnerable, including young adult homicide victims, those who died in intimate partner violence - related homicides, and those who died from firearms - related homicides, including murders involving guns.
Eatock has also called for more to be done to help vulnerable people who fall victim to online fraud.
Unlike other scams, money is not asked for right away, but after the online relationship has started and the victim is most vulnerable.
Older people are especially vulnerable to online dating scams yet in Australia there is little support for victims, reports Julia May.
October is National Bullying Awareness Month, and our most vulnerable population for being the victims of bullying are children with intellectual, developmental, or other disabilities.
Comprehensive character education efforts can build an atmosphere where students feel included, connected, and part of their school community; where both students and teachers step up to report bullying and stand up for victims; where teachers check in with vulnerable or troubled students instead of hoping, «she's fine» or «he's too much trouble»; and where parents are involved and engaged.
The «Elder Investment Fraud and Financial Exploitation Prevention Program» (EIFFE Prevention Program) educates healthcare and legal professionals to recognize when their older patients and clients may be vulnerable to or victims of financial abuse, particularly those patients with mild cognitive impairment, and then to refer these at - risk patients to State Securities Regulators, local adult protective services professionals or for further screening and assistance as needed.
This program rescues the most vulnerable, at - risk population of dogs — elderly strays, puppy mill victims, and older dogs slated for euthanasia at animal control facilities.
Banfield Charitable Trust Pet Advocacy Grants provides help for vulnerable populations (including domestic violence victims) to keep their pets.
While investigators now suspect that further victims exist (they found more than one hundred pictures of unidentified women in his home), one reason he was able to terrorize Los Angeles for so long was that he targeted vulnerable black women in particular.
It is indigenous and rural peoples, like many of the victims in the Philippines, who are the most vulnerable to climate change, and the least responsible for it.
Those smug know - it - alls that champion wind and solar power persistently claim the high moral ground, but religiously ignore the inevitable victims of their faux eco-zealotry: the poorest and most vulnerable in society, for whom paying for power has become an existential battle.
For two weeks, the U.S. delegation has, by all accounts, worked to deny developing nations — vulnerable to, and victims of, global warming — the financial pathway they need to adapt to climate change or recover from climate - related losses and damages.
Researchers have found automated and human verification for voice - based user authentication vulnerable, and explore how an attacker in possession of voice audio samples could compromise a victim's security, safety and privacy.
As advocates for Ontario's car Accident victims, the lawyers at Auger Hollingsworth are disappointed and worried about how these changes will impact vulnerable people.
Natalie Clarke is a firm believer in Access To Justice for everyone, and especially, for the most vulnerable in our society — the disabled victims of car accidents.
Immigration: All aspects of immigration, asylum, nationality and refugee law with particular emphasis and expertise in: asylum and human rights cases; overlap between asylum and extradition law; representing children subject to immigration control; representing victims of trafficking and other vulnerable clients; detention and deportation; immigration issues in adoption and surrogacy cases; immigration for family members of British and settled people; EEA - related matters, in particular relating to third - country national family members; appeal work in FTT and UT and the higher courts; public law challenges to Home Office in judicial review; and immigration bail.
There are programs for court support for vulnerable individuals, victim notifications that are sent out — and these are financed with funds collected through this compensation under the victims of crime — and referrals for counselling.
Cazabon is being recognized for her longstanding advocacy in promoting social justice for victims of domestic and sexual violence, as well as her dedication and commitment on behalf of the Commonwealth's most vulnerable.
This belief blames the victim for the rape because she «chooses» to be vulnerable.
First, although cl 10 contains a general provision that provides for a limited legal fee, there is no requirement that this particularly vulnerable class of victim must be legally represented.
The list of factors suggesting a decision in favor of prosecution mainly contains criteria relating to the seriousness of the offense (for example, premeditation, a particularly vulnerable victim), whereas factors disfavoring prosecution include insignificant harm, expectation of a small penalty, negative effects of the prosecution on the victim's mental or physical health, and compensation paid by the defendant to the victim (Code for Crown Prosecutors, secs. 6.4, 6.5).
Founded more than 40 years ago by Gary Neinstein, the firm developed a reputation for providing tough, purposeful legal representation for some of the province's most vulnerable injury victims.
For the past 45 years, Neinstein Personal Injury Lawyers has provided legal representation to some of Ontario's most vulnerable and seriously injured accident victims.
Neinstein has been serving some of Ontario's most vulnerable and severely injured accident victims for well over four decades.
The report concludes that online LPAs show «a lack of consideration or checks to safeguard for vulnerable donors» and «the individual making the application can more easily become a victim of fraud or coercion.»
As a national expert, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) provides technical assistance, trainings and practice manuals on critical immigration options for vulnerable immigrants including immigrant victims of domestic violence, human trafficking and other crimes.
While the bill has wide political support and a handful of celebrity endorsements, many sex workers and actual advocates for trafficking victims have spoken out against it, arguing that it will make vulnerable populations less safe.
«The fact that some of them [victims] are somewhat related to our congregational family doesn't make us any more vulnerable or more moved than the tens of thousands of people who were at the vigil [on Feb. 15 for the victims],» Arnold said.
So - called parental notification and / or consent laws for abortion, which do nothing to improve communication between parents and children but rather have the potential to harm young people who are already vulnerable — and can especially endanger minors when they are victims of abuse, rape or incest at the hand of a parent.
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