Sentences with phrase «toward poor nations»

Our duties toward poor nations and displaced domestic workers are not mutually exclusive.

Not exact matches

Already two basic values have come into view: (1) our attitude toward our nation and the needs and claims of other nations, especially the poorer ones, and (2) our attitudes toward individual consumption.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

And this year's negotiations must produce a road map toward the $ 100 billion a year by 2020 that developed countries have promised to raise to help poor nations cope with warming.

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

My friend and colleague Neil MacFarquhar, who is our new United Nations correspondent, mentioned that Norway is bucking the downward trend in foreign development aid and, even in a deteriorating global economy, committing to funneling more money toward making life better in poor countries.

In our video chat, he and the other authors acknowledged the challenge in gaining traction, even with such findings, given the deep - rooted human bias toward immediate gratification and the development and energy gaps that mean today's poorer nations have few affordable choices other than fossil fuels.