Sentences with phrase «often vulnerable communities»

Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters on often vulnerable communities, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like Zika, malaria and dengue fever, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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«Entire communities are being left vulnerable to dangerous sexual predators who often strike more than once,» said Klein, a Bronx Democrat, in a statement.

Both Kelly and Chinowsky said coastal communities are significantly vulnerable to storm surge, rising sea levels and future storms — challenging geographic conditions augmented by their exposure to hurricanes and often sinking sediment beneath a city's foundation.

Teachers often worry that treating contentious issues in class might make them vulnerable to criticism from the community, she said.»

The potential outcome of a Parent Trigger drive — disrupting and dismantling schools — is likely to harm vulnerable students and communities in which the local public school is often a key stabilizing force.

The conflict in Compton underscores PAA's concern that «disrupting and dismantling school is likely to harm vulnerable students and communities in which the local public school is often a key stabilizing force,» observes Caroline Grannan of San Francisco, founding member of PAA.

She said it was nice to help the community and animals, which are often «vulnerable and overlooked.»

Drawing from the museum's historical photography collection, al - Beik contrasts his images with those of former Berlin residents, as he emphasises the fragility of life and the uncertain futures that often await vulnerable communities.

However, owing to their strident and often irrational behavior, they are very vulnerable to not being taken seriously by males in the scientific community and viewed as undesirable for faculty or other leadership positions..

As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

As Charter litigation often involves some of Canada's most vulnerable communities, a flexible approach to these two issues has relieved some of the financial and emotional burdens of Charter litigation, and advanced access to justice.

In the injured worker community, we see that much of the cutbacks and resulting poverty is disproportionately felt by marginalized groups who are economically vulnerable, often due to their immigration status and excluded from entering work that is decent, safe and secure.

Still, security experts and LGBT advocates told BuzzFeed the app should have been more clear on how it handles the data, especially since it affects an already - vulnerable community that's often victim of harassment.

Additionally, due to the forced removals and relocations of Indigenous peoples onto government controlled communities, traditional responses (such as moving to a less vulnerable part of their country) are not as effective, requiring more resources, and in some cases emergency service support, which is often hampered by the remoteness of these communities.

«To ask communities to imagine Australia could be a different place requires them, often very vulnerable communities, to suspend disbelief about the way politics deals with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,» she said.

Home visiting is a voluntary intervention that pairs professionals with expecting and new families — often living in some of our state's most vulnerable communities — to work together on a regular basis in the home.