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Alongside the Indigenous Peoples Networking Zone at AIDS 2014, it will aim to put Indigenous issues around HIV and AIDS higher on the international agenda, particularly to have Indigenous peoples recognised alongside other vulnerable groups as a «priority population».

Mrs Mahama does not travel abroad with as little as 2,000 Ghana Cedis to buy cheap items for orphanages and vulnerable groups as Manasseh wants us to believe, but donated expensive items such as ultra-modern ECG and X-ray machines, ambulances, computers, ultra-modern hospital beds, and other essential medical supplies.

The President said the launch signified government's recognition of vulnerable groups as critical aspects of the country's human resource base.

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A statement to commit violence against a vulnerable person or group such as «heads - of - state, witnesses and confidential informants, activists, and journalists» counts here too.

As part of our pledge, The Home Project is leveraging various aspects of Zillow Group's business — including economic research — to raise awareness about housing insecurity and create solutions to address the unique needs of our Community Partners and those who are housing vulnerable.

While behaviour change and decongestion are often the objectives, the decongestion charge should not come at the expense of vulnerable groups, such as low income individuals and families, persons with disabilities and seniors.

Other vulnerable groups, such as the disabled or elderly, may likewise be pushed into a planned death due to a perceived lack of contribution to society.

If we introduce euthanasia / PAS as a legal, medical option, would we risk discriminating against vulnerable groups — such as those with AIDS, Alzheimer's or spinal cord injuries — that are perceived as burdens on the system and on society?

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

Erich Neumann, among others, has shown how those who think of themselves as strong and self - sufficient may at times project their inner sense of inferiority onto the more vulnerable ethnic, economic, and religious groups in their social environment.

We welcome «this bipartisan resolution as a way to focus attention on the situation of the vulnerable religious communities in Iraq,» the bishops said in a letter to the congressional group.

As the Pope still has significant influence over the less educated masses in these parts of the World, he has exercised this power by: (a) Using some of the Vatican's incomprehensible wealth to educate these vulnerable people on health family planning and condom use; (b) Supporting government programs that distribute condoms to high risk groups; (c) Using its myriad of churches in these regions to distribute condoms; or (d) Scaring people into NOT using condoms, based upon his disdainful and aloof view that it is better that a person die than go against the Vatican's position on contraceptive use.

In the Hebrew faith; Yahweh appears as the God the defender of the vulnerable groups from whom all rights are forcefully taken away — the widow, orphans, aliens and the poor.

Relationship between diet, iron and zinc status and health outcomes, particularly in vulnerable groups such as young women, infants and toddlers.

It builds upon other certification systems, such as the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, and tackles some of the most challenging issues facing the palm oil sector, such as the destruction of high carbon stock forests and the abuse of the most vulnerable workers,» said Matthias Diemer, Chair of the Palm Oil Innovation Group.

«Our industry is acutely aware of its responsibilities,» she comments in the Food and Drink Federation report Delivering Healthy Growth, «whether tackling public health issues such as malnutrition or deficiency of certain nutrients in vulnerable groups or the growing challenge of obesity, or enabling consumers to make informed choices from a range of products than match modern lifestyles.

The only similarity in the circumstances as known, is that both took advantage of a vulnerable group of kids.

So there is evidence that some services are not meeting needs because of gendered and racial assumptions and that these are disproportionately affecting vulnerable groups, such as young families and minority ethnic groups.

This has included conducting advocacy for human milk banking as a cost - effective strategy for improving health of vulnerable infants, establishing a global technical advisory group, leading rigorous evaluations to determine impact, and developing innovative human milk banking technologies for resource - limited settings.

As a group, offenders and ex-offenders experience entrenched socio - economic inequities and are vulnerable to mental ill health.

Historically, international agreements and frameworks related to humanitarian crises (such as International Humanitarian Law, the Hyogo Framework for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, the SPHERE Project, among others) have not directly mentioned persons with disabilities or have only addressed them as part of the broader category of «vulnerable groups.»

As such, humanitarian agencies will need to change to keep up with new communications realities, but some domains will remain distinctly familiar: complex humanitarian emergencies; politically challenging environments; forgotten, difficult and smaller crises; and most vulnerable groups in major disasters.

In those countries where it remains, international safeguards aim to ensure legality and fair trial, principles of equality and consistency, and minimum standards of protection for vulnerable groups, as well as entailing imposition only for the most serious crimes.

Democratic groups have targeted Zeldin as a vulnerable incumbent Republican.

It is also vulnerable to fake invoices, there are organised crime groups which are specialized in taking money from government because of fake invoices - because VAT works so, that if you have paid to you contrahents more as you are about to pay, the government pays you back the difference.

The verdict from the UKSA, the official body tasked with ensuring government departments use statistics accurately and honestly, is another rebuff for a project which has been condemned for targeting an extremely rare problem while potentially disenfranchising vulnerable groups such as older people and the homeless, who might not have the necessary ID.

(CNN)- A group supporting Democratic senators and Senate candidates says it's going up with a new television commercial defending Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, who's considered vulnerable as she runs for re-election next year.

Both groups, as well as others whose funding may be at stake, do important work on behalf of vulnerable New Yorkers who often have nowhere else to turn.

Three years ago, this research group discovered that the horses that farmers introduced to the forest for extra income in effect shoved pandas away from the bamboo buffet in the Wolong Nature Reserve in southwestern China, the famed home of the vulnerable giant pandas, as well as other threatened wildlife.

As cannabis legalization rapidly evolves, in both medical and recreational usage, understanding the laws» effect on young people is crucial because this group is particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of marijuana and possesses an inherent elevated risk of developing a cannabis disorder.

However, the authors said that donor countries should ensure that vulnerable populations in middle - income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees and people who inject drugs, continue to get support, since it may be difficult for many countries to withstand the political pressures against helping stigmatized groups.

«Cancer patients who are obese and diabetic are an already more vulnerable group of individuals when it comes to surgery, as they have an increased risk of developing complications both during and after surgery.

No one denies that some groups are more vulnerable than others to certain disorders, such as sickle - cell anemia, and thus knowing someone's race or ethnicity can be as pertinent to diagnosis as knowing their sex.

If countries have enough vaccine, they can reduce disease and death by vaccinating groups at higher risk, such as pregnant women, those with chronic health conditions, or even all healthy young adults between 15 and 49 years old, the age group that appears most vulnerable.

Recent studies have examined factors that can render prey more vulnerable, such as differences in ungulate grouping behavior and terrain features.

«[Brazil's] borders are hard to control and its extraordinary biodiversity is often seen as easy money by trafficking networks,» says Juan Carlos Cantú, a biologist in Mexico City who manages the Mexico office of Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation group in Washington, D.C. Birds are especially vulnerable, and parrots top the list of threatened species because of the high demand for them in the pet market.

And the bill would require EPA to take tougher action on persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals, and ensure that chemicals are safe for vulnerable groups such as infants, seniors, and chemical workers.

And if TB is not successfully tackled in vulnerable groups, it will not be eliminated as planned.

UNAIDS attributes the slight decrease in sub-Saharan Africa to prevention programs in countries such as Uganda, and to the fact that infection rates are already so high that relatively few people in vulnerable groups are left to infect.

Also, the placement of vulnerable groups, such as elderly and children, during the extreme weather situation was modelled.

These patients have traditionally been viewed as a vulnerable group and «protected» from participation in clinical studies.

Widespread access to current HIV prevention technologies is limited among groups most vulnerable to HIV infection such as women and adolescent girls.

As the group nears the lighthouse, the women become increasingly vulnerable to the entropy of the Shimmer, one by one merging with the ecosystem and its crashing waves of brutality.

And Tessa Thompson, Thor: Ragnarok's swaggering Valkyrie, displays a more vulnerable side here as the group's least militarily adept warrior.

This is England doesn't really condemn gangs, as they are shown as having some positive attributes as well, but it does portray them as highly vulnerable to being usurped by stronger influences that can turn them from a group of friends to a radical wing of a fascist organization.

But it's apparent there are some groups who are more vulnerable to depression than others, such as those living in poverty or who regularly face discrimination.

This approach allows us to match groups, such as high - gain and lower - gain schools, on performance on novel or inflation - resistant items and examine differential gains on items hypothesized to be most vulnerable to inappropriate test preparation (e.g., item clones).

Abstract: During the last decades, Village Savings and Loans groups (VSL) have been consolidated as a powerful tool for the generation of economic alternatives, strengthening of the social fabric and recovery of supportive relationships in vulnerable communities.

They should ensure that vulnerable groups that have previously been marginalized in allocation of resources such as women, girls and the disabled are also catered for and their property rights protected.

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