Sentences with phrase «vulnerable communities under»

«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable healthcare for all New Yorkers, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump Administration,» she said.

«We must find more ways to protect taxpayers and create good jobs, ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all New Yorkers, ensure voting rights, protect women's rights, ensure our education system receives the resources it deserves, repair and fully fund our decaying infrastructure and MTA, and stand up for vulnerable communities under attack by the Trump administration.»

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He said: «It won't protect young people and communities because it is the same failed old recipe of criminalisation and under - funding that has led to record numbers of vulnerable people dying.»

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that adding such a question «will inject fear and distrust into vulnerable communities and cause traditionally undercounted communities to be even further under - represented, financially excluded and left behind.»

«Under Governor Cuomo, HCR has a tremendous impact on advancing housing policy state - wide, including the Governor's efforts in developing and protecting affordable housing and protecting vulnerable communities.

-- In providing assistance under this section, the Administrator of USAID shall give priority to countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, that are most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, determined by the likelihood and severity of such impacts and the country's capacity to adapt to such impacts.

Schools «can not follow a policy of strict neutrality when their students» and families» identities are openly under attack in the civic sphere» — because failing to openly embrace students can leave them vulnerable to ostracization from their community.

The DfE has acknowledged the unique skills of the school business leader community, as well as their experience and knowledge, and will be deploying practitioners to support vulnerable schools and academies under the guidance of ISBL in the New Year.

Under - translated and overly vulnerable to censorship, the publishing communities of Southeast Asia nevertheless will soon be «making waves,» according to one of Singapore's industry leaders.

Emphasizing the importance of promoting, protecting and respecting all human rights, the right to development, the right to health, and the rights of indigenous peoples, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable climate situations -LSB-, and under occupation,] as well as promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women, while taking into account the needs of local communities, intergenerational equity concerns, and the integrity of ecosystems and of Mother Earth, when taking action to address climate change,...

The agreement reached under the UNFCCC will, for example, influence whether post-2015 development will be implemented in a two, three, four (or more) degree world, and the SDGs will influence not only how resilient and well adapted to the effects of climate change poor and vulnerable communities will be, but also the pace and carbon intensity of development in all countries.

Working with a team of experts, she found that the plant's proximity to the local community left residents vulnerable to dangerous chemicals — and that the plant was likely operating under illegally obtained permits.

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.

Under her leadership, her team created state programs and policies around the country to direct billions of dollars in funding and resources to the communities most vulnerable to climate change.

The Legal Resources Foundation, with the support of the EU under the Zimbabwe Justice Sector Programme, is offering legal training to traditional leaders with the aim of improving access to justice for rural communities in Zimbabwe, particularly those who are marginalised and vulnerable.

But the traditional small - town local lawyer is under the gun: many communities that size are declining, and the lawyers there are older, less likely to have juniors to whom to pass on the practice, and generally work in areas (real estate, wills, document creation) most vulnerable to new competitors from outside the profession.

continue to provide information, particularly to vulnerable groups across the community, about people's rights and responsibilities under the law

For example, models of engagement between departmental officials and communities under a lead agency approach are extremely vulnerable to changes in key personnel, and the conflicting priorities arising from multiple changes of government.

The Big Cup project is a free parent and baby group, for vulnerable families within the communities of Stoke on Trent and Newcastle under Lyme.

Building on the Foundation's long - standing interest in adolescent children, we work to ensure that enriching after - school programming is available and accessible to middle school students, particularly vulnerable youth in under - resourced communities.

And some were still holding their breath feeling fragile or vulnerable, waiting for a loan to go through or hoping for the right house and community to be found even under less than ideal circumstances.