Sentences with phrase «lives of women and children»

As a former Ontario Provincial Police officer and a past board member of the shelter, Quinton shared first - hand stories of the difference Family Transition Place has made in the lives of the women and children it serves.

«She enlightened us on how the shelter makes a difference in the lives of women and children who have experienced abuse.»

This program of prenatal and infancy home - visiting by nurses continued to improve the lives of women and children at child age 6 years, 4 years after the program ended.

More than 40 countries and a host of foundations, nongovernmental organizations, businesses, health care workers» associations and academic institutions committed $ 40 billion in resources to improve the health and lives of women and children worldwide at the United Nations today during the launch of a new strategy released by UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon.

Proceeds help fund the YWCA's many programs and services that benefit the lives of women and children in the Hartford region.

Proceeds from the luncheon will help fund YWCA programs and services that improve lives of women and children in the Greater Hartford region, including child care, supportive and transitional housing, teen leadership development, racial justice awareness, economic empowerment, and financial literacy.

Mahadev's series of winning images not only provides a window into the lives of the women and children working in a brick factory, but poses an interesting challenge for the viewer to look beyond the attractive imagery.

«She enlightened us on how the shelter makes a difference in the lives of women and children who have experienced abuse.»

Founded in 1989 (and initially called the Women's Commission), the Women's Refugee Commission's mission is to improve the lives of women and children refugees around the world.

With a compassionate approach to its characters and a critical eye on society, Angels Wear White explores the way certain ideas of sexuality cast shadows on the lives of women and children, and how these ideas can be transcended.

She is recognized for championing efforts to improve the lives of women and children in a myriad of facets including economic stability, health and wellness, education, and empowerment.

Michele Champagne, president of the Quebec Alliance of Practicing Midwives, said: «Midwives are not endangering the lives of women and children any more than doctors are, and to suggest otherwise is a lie.»

The people who created this policy are criminals who have absolutely no regard for the lives of women and children.

That would be far more constructive than advocating for Russian roulette with the lives of women and children.

But even if you can not change agency practice you can transform your own personal practice, in terms of making real efforts to identify and engage positively with the men in the lives of the women and children you work with.

Through their associated non-profit, Sudara Freedom Fund, they have an even greater impact on the lives of women and children in India by equipping even more women and their children with education and housing and micro-loans — tools needed to build and sustain a new life such as the Sunetha Home, supporting long - term, systemic change by directly addressing issues that lead to generational sex work.

Who would be so flippant about the lives of a woman and her child to actually attempt that?

Not exact matches

Syrian President Bashar Assad and his government are suspected of having used nerve - agent and chlorine gases against people living in Douma, Syria, on April 7, killing dozens and injuring hundreds of men, women, and children.

It's more reminiscent of a child being noisy in a classroom than of a terrifying, dangerous, and life - altering experience for a woman.

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

Companies such as MarketTools and other market research firms can develop random sample populations and help compile lists for specialized market segments, such as women between the ages of 25 and 40 who live in the San Francisco Bay area, or people who have children or pets.

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

'' Mr. Oundo [Living Goods Field Supervisor] discussed one case in which a woman's young child had diarrhea and the child's condition was deteriorating, but the mother could not seek treatment because she did not have money to travel and her husband was out of town.

Likewise, successful men and women entrepreneurs founded their companies when they had similar numbers of children living at home, though men were more likely than women to be married.

«Women with children are often excluded from full participation in the labour market due to challenges in balancing work and family life, or they work part - time, which often means lower wages and fewer benefits, including lack of a pension, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as less job stability,» the document states.

The need for adequate legal aid is very compelling in situations where a woman is attempting to leave an abusive relationship, and her life and her physical and emotional security are at risk, as is the safety of her children.

I knew I had to have life balance to support my military husband, be able to take care of my children, and also keep my independence as a woman who can also financially contribute to the family.»

ATHENS / NEW YORK, MAY 3, 2018 — As the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, visits Lesvos for a regional conference, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that thousands of men, women, and children in Lesvos are living in squalid, overcrowded conditions in Moria camp, with insufficient access to health care.

«Our collective commitment to giving back to the communities where we live and work has meant that thousands of women and children have access to safe shelter and the chance to rebuild their lives after violence.»

@Calus Here is another good example of a «deep thinking» and a «loving» humanitarian, who thinks that «they» (women, children...) should not be allowed to live, just because of a difference in an opinion and that they (whoever «they» might be) are stupid because «they» don't think, act, or look the same.

But when a Muslim woman dedicates herself to that then she's considered oppressed, even though the women who dedicate their life to bringing the welfare of their children have the least family and social problems on this earth.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

This a staggeringly unhealthy narrative to promote to our children about the way sexuality works, and plays directly into the hands of a rape culture such as the one in which we live: If you are a woman and ever get catcalled, abused, molested, raped or any number of other sexual advances, you are probably at least partially to blame.

If I were to live up to my experiences as a child, I wouldn't have a woman doing anything in a church or a classroom because what I saw then was out of control aggression and bullying.

kendallpeak Your att.itude only made sense in a male - dominated world where women couldn't much hope for a life outside of producing children and keeping house.

I live on the other side of the world, and far from home and through my kindness i watched you burn flags, beat women and children.

Men, women, and children, young and old have sought and found the grace of God in order to live chaste and humble lives.

She added: «We recognize that there are difficulties women face with pregnancies, especially in cases where the unborn child may be born with a life - limiting disease, but we do not believe that abortion is the answer, and that funding for a free abortion in another country is short - sighted as it neglects any mention of an offer of counselling or care for the woman.»

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

The media hounded Tim Farron for his Christian views; they did not regard it as acceptable for him to hold views other than those of the political elite, or the majority, Similarly, our belief in the personhood of the unborn child and the sanctity of their lives enables us to see abortion as a sin crying to heaven for justice, not merely some privately held opinion; for us it is most definitely not «a woman's choice».

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»

Back alley abortions will return, women will die, and we will still have a horrifying number of children living in poverty and crime.

On Sunday, let us remember slavery, the Trail of Tears, Jim Crowe, abortion, «collateral damage,» torture, Japanese internment, and the hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children who have lost their lives to acts of war.

Religious members of the movement are embarking on our 40 Days for Life campaign, in which we pray, fast, hold vigil, and perform community outreach, all in service of saving men, women, and children from abortion.

Melinda Gates, a passionate advocate for improved maternal and infant care worldwide, puts it this way: «To help women and children fulfill their potential, we need to make sure they can receive the right kind of health care at every phase of their lives.

Only a man and a woman together can create living works of art, with each child a unique monument to the creative love that inspires and unites them.

Those who wait, then, live in the faith that the God who created and sustains, who is incomparable, who overturns the plans of the most powerful princes of this world — that this God will do / is doing / has done the restorative and renewing work for child, woman and man.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.