Sentences with phrase «poorest places of the world»

He underlined the need to improve access to mental health support for people in the poorest places of the world and shared how he had witnessed first - hand, some of the challenges faced by children with disabilities on a trip to East Africa.

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The main focus of the conversation, which took place in Qatar, was on a philanthropic initiative he helped debut that aims to provide aid to the world's poorest Muslim countries.

In an hour - long, understated speech, punctuated by humor, Clinton called on aid groups to continue their efforts to champion diversity and the positive forces of interdependence while seeking the most effective ways to assist communities in the world's poorest places.

The most god - ridden places in the world are also the most ill, the most ignorant, the poorest, and the most abusive toward their weakest members of society.

aaaaaan then by historical account, after the disciples left their homes, gave all they had and hung out with poor people «to keep their good economic standing,» cried in joy from beatings because they could serve Christ and not the world, and all of the twelve but one were beaten thoroughly and executed, becuase the one who lived was placed in boiling oil and WOULD NOT DIE in front of thousands of viewers... «tooooo keep their «good economic standing?»»

Additionally, in a 2009 letter to the United States Senate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on the legislative body to «place the needs of poor families and the most vulnerable in our nation and around the world first in setting priorities in the federal budget resolution.»

Finally, Charles Villa - Vicencio takes up the new work of making liberation theology not just a theology of resistance but of reconstruction in places like South Africa and El Salvador, where civil war has ended but the crushing burdens of building a more humane society continue — in a new world order with less and less compassion or creative insight for the plight of the poor.

Wenger won and now he does nt know hot it looks like, he has become poor and looks out of place in the football world.

A lack of data places some limits on these conclusions, as much of the evidence is from the world's poorest areas where malnutrition is prevalent.

In fact, there have been studies done in nutrition in poor areas around the world, places where food accessibility is particularly challenging and in conditions where mom's nutrition is not so great, and what's been found is the nutritional value of human milk is preserved.

Furthermore, organizations such as USAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have started sponsoring design competitions such as Saving Lives at Birth, which challenges innovators to protect the health of newborns and their mothers in the world's poorest places.

««By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.»

«The rapid shifts in disease burden place poor people in low - and middle - income countries at high risk of not having access to appropriate services and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.

In the world's poorest places, the movements and prosperity of people can be traced by the appearance of electric lights, which is recorded by US weather satellites.

Would the critics prefer that hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people starved to death to make the world an ecologically more balanced place?

Instead of helping, discouraging demand for quinoa could threaten to harm a most promising industry in one of the world's poorest places.

Once in the backwoods, Melanie: reunites with sour Ma (Mary Kay Place) and dour Pa (Fred Ward), both actors modeling their characters on Grant Wood's necessarily two - dimensional painting «American Gothic»; «outs» poor Bobby Ray (Ethan Embry)-- in the real world, they'd probably have been hung from the same pole flying the Confederate Flag outside the local watering hole; and delivers the most embarrassing monologue since Phoebe Cates's in Gremlins to, of all things, a license plate marking the burial spot of a «coon dog» named after legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul «Bear» Bryant.

One of the great things about «Black Panther» is the specificity of this mythical place, masquerading as one of the world's poorest countries but actually — thanks to a huge deposit of miracle metal vibranium — a hotbed of futuristic technology.

The young heir to a vast Mexico City banking empire runs away from the cold, corrupt, racist, money - driven, super-elite, super-rich, classist world into which he was born, takes a wrong turn down a wrong road, and finds himself stranded in a poor, remote, beach community where he experiences a love at first sight with an exotically beautiful local girl — one that will place him — and her — in grave danger at the hands of a ruthless drug lord.

We ask a lot of teachers — particularly in some of the world's poorest and most fragile places.

«By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.

Dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world, this book questions whether the likes of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development and other big international aid organizations help or hinder the world's poorest peworld, this book questions whether the likes of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development and other big international aid organizations help or hinder the world's poorest peWorld Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development and other big international aid organizations help or hinder the world's poorest peworld's poorest people.

At the same time, as Adam Nossiter pointed out grippingly in a story out of Senegal on May 3, the world's poorest places are living in, and dying in, mountains of garbage.

As with any tour, there are gaps, as Rob Nixon pointed out in his mostly laudatory review in The Times; it's up to other books (say, «The Bottom Billion «-RRB- to reveal the extraordinary inequity on humanity's planet at the moment, as well as the full sweep of life - changing bottom - up innovations in poor places (see «How to Change the World «-RRB-.

In a three - day summit at the United Nations on global warming this week, a parade of representatives from developing countries expressed growing discontent with the lack of action by rich ones to start curbing emissions of greenhouse gases that, in the long run, are likely to exact the most harm in the world's poorest places.

In poorer places specifically third world countries alot of kids walk to school, they are willing to walk miles and miles to get a substantial education because they can't drive to school, if they can't afford taxi fares how will they know how to buy a computer?

-- It's clear that vulnerability to impacts from climate extremes, natural or otherwise, is largely a function of poverty, so fostering economic advancement (and access to any form of relatively clean energy, fossil fuels included) in the world's poorest places is smart climate policy.

When one reads that «As the tenth President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz placed the poorest people of Africa at the forefront of his agenda» the alarm bells should go off.

Family Planning: The world has focused for years on curbing the scourge of H.I.V. in Africa, but population groups say this effort, while laudable, has raided money for family - planning programs that could cut the risk of infection and also help speed the transition out of poverty in the world's poorest places.

And by placing their short sighted greed, ignorance, and stupidity first, the unholy polluting coalition of oil producers and coal burners has told the world that they don't care who else they hurt by continuing their dirty addiction, killing reefs and drowning islands and coasts, and imperiling millions in poor countries.

Joseph Chamie, whom I interviewed early on here about the population «cluster bombs» exploding in many poor places around the world, has turned his focus on the growing population of the United States, and its relation to the hot - button issue of immigration policy.

But in 2009, as I reported more and more on the inherent threat of climate extremes in some of the world's poorest places (sub-Saharan Africa, particularly) I became concerned that the uncertain impact of greenhouse - driven warming paled beside other drivers of risk (persistent poverty, doubling populations, and the existing pattern of super-drought).

Matt Damon was one of several hundred «friends of Bill» who participated in this year's Clinton Global Initiative conference in Manhattan, a four - day event last week orchestrated by former President Bill Clinton and aimed at funneling wealth to projects that improve lives and the environment in the world's poorest places.

As for the ethics of all of this, Donald A. Brown of Pennsylvania State University argues that the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases are morally obligated to curb carbon dioxide and similar emissions based on the level of certainty that is already established on the impacts of those emissions — most of which will be in poorer places with small contributions to the human - caused gas buildup in the atmosphere.

In some of the world's poorest places, rapid population growth and flimsy housing in zones of profound «natural» hazard have created huge vulnerability (the latest case in point is, of course, Nepal).

On Thursday, the United Nations Development Program held an event in Manhattan aimed at raising the profile of one of our most basic needs — a place to defecate — and highlighting the glaring lack of sanitary ways to accomplish this fundamental facet of biology in the world's poor places.

All of this surely speaks of glaring security challenges in a world heading toward nine billion people, with most of that growth in poor places and marginal environments.

10:35 p.m. Updated At the Clinton Global Initiative on Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and various partners described details of a plan to curb the clouds of toxic cooking smoke killing nearly 2 million people a year in the world's poorest places.

While warnings of an exploding global «population bomb» have not played out, high fertility rates are still a big driver of rising human vulnerability to environmental threats in the world's poorest places.

When I do that, aggressive curbs on carbon dioxide emissions fall well behind the immediacy of filling the world's energy gaps (and work to limit vulnerability of poor places to today's norms for climate and coastal hazards).

In 90 countries around the world, CARE places special focus on working alongside poor girls and women because, equipped with the proper resources, they have the power to help lift whole families and entire communities out of poverty.

Maybe I should add that although global warming is an inherently interesting topic for debate, I am a strong supporter of economic growth to improve the lives of the half of the world's population who are dreadfully poor, and I see climate catastrophism as an instrument of those who oppose economic growth and thus place themselves in the position of being objective enemies of human well - being.

Helpful to a limited extent, as the energy returned is good for energy invested, BUT the developed world is driving up the price of cooking oil for the poorer countries by using food crops for biofuel and by folks putting palm plantations in places that could be growing food.

Cheap, low - maintenance farming can be adopted elsewhere, Oglio thinks, and, while it may not produce thousands of acres upon acres of staple crops like rice, wheat, and corn (at least in the same place), it can help feed the world's poor without reliance on and oversight by corporations.

Actually both are extremely poor alternatives compared to simply not opening a spigot to world's largest and dirtiest pools of carbon in the first place.

And I'm going to throw a video of doing it Marshall's way in the show notes, because I actually haven't been able to find another video on YouTube, and I think that the world is a poor place without more people tying their shoes in the way that Marshall says.

And Visa's Barnes noted that while there is a need for extra promotion in countries where payments systems already work pretty well, there are plenty of places in the developing world where credit - card systems are poor or nonexistent, people use mobile phones constantly and distrust of banks is high.

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Solomon condensed and coalesced the scientific opinions of the swelling ranks of academic heretics into three arguments: man - made global warming was a crock; unscrupulous politicians and NGOs were getting powerful and rich by perpetuating the myth; and, if the nonsense continued, the Western World would be a much poorer place.