Sentences with phrase «vulnerable groups including»

«PHAA also welcomes the $ 20 million investment to revive the successful National Tobacco Campaign together with additional action to target vulnerable groups including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with poor mental health and people living in rural and remote areas.

While the medical fees may be considered a small amount for those in the middle income range and above; vulnerable groups including Indigenous Australians may be forced to choose between going to the GP or buying essential items such as food.

Provide an action plan to address the capacity enhancement needs of vulnerable groups including indigenous and Dalit community and ensure that they will be able to know real time information of climate related hazards and adopt mitigation measures.

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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.

That normal includes potential long - term health effects from wildfire smoke, especially for vulnerable groups like pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with respiratory impairment, Henderson said.

A group of Christian leaders that includes the likes of Beth Moore, Jen Hatmaker, Max Lucado, Matt Chandler, Ann Voskamp, Willow Creek's Bill and Lynne Hybels, and Christianity Today president Harold Smith has taken out a full - page ad in the Washington Post calling for President Donald Trump to «help vulnerable immigrants,» and has a particular focus on Dreamers.

The claim that Coles and Woolworths were about to sell Foster's Group beers including Carlton Draught and VB at below cost is another instance of the gradual eating away of famous brands now vulnerable because of changing drinking habits.

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.

FPEEG, the All - Party Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency Group, is a coalition of cross party MPs and industry stakeholders committed to maintain awareness in Parliament of fuel poverty issues; to monitor and comment on progress against government's targets to eradicate fuel poverty; to advocate policies that deliver affordable warmth for vulnerable households with emphasis on improved domestic energy efficiency including effective thermal insulation alongside efficient and effective heating systems.

The letter reads in part: «SERAP is concerned that years of systemic corruption within the NNPC and looting of Nigeria's natural resources have had uneven consequences against the vulnerable groups of the society, including the poor, women and children, perpetrating and institutionalizing discrimination, and jeopardizing the needs and well - being of future generations.

Many people, including the elderly, disabled and other vulnerable groups rely heavily on buses to support them in living more independent lives.

«SERAP is concerned that years of systemic corruption within the NNPC and looting of Nigeria's natural resources have had uneven consequences against the vulnerable groups of the society, including the poor, women and children, perpetrating and institutionalizing discrimination, and jeopardizing the needs and well - being of future generations.

The meme following the passage of same - sex marriage was Democrats would suffer in the money game, since LGBT advocates, groups and gay marriage supporters maxed out quickly to vulnerable Senate Republicans that voted yes, including Sens. Jim Alesi and Mark Grisanti.

There should also improvement in the provision for vulnerable groups, including pregnant women, nursing mothers, persons with disability and the aged, by giving them priority to cast their votes, the Declaration said.

This includes Extremism Risk Guidance 22 which identifies 22 «risk factors» for gauging whether individuals are vulnerable to engaging with terrorist groups or posing a security risk.

From an evolutionary perspective one of the Oxytocin roles is to moderate pro-social behaviors, including compassion, mainly toward the survival of weaker and vulnerable individuals within groups, including females, pregnant females and offspring, who can not defend themselves in nature, in light of the stress.

That lack of texts has left Yezidism vulnerable to misinterpretation, including the accusations of devil worship that the IS group used to justify slaughter and rape and that have fueled persecution of Yezidis for centuries.

Furthermore, findings were similarly protective among important groups who account for a large proportion of deaths or who are particularly vulnerable, including young adult homicide victims, those who died in intimate partner violence - related homicides, and those who died from firearms - related homicides, including murders involving guns.

But critics of AMFm — including the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and Oxfam, a U.K. charity — argue that it's not clear how many of the drugs reached the most vulnerable group — children under age 5 in poor areas — and that, with malaria rates declining across Africa, many drugs must have gone to people who did not have malaria at all.

«The most vulnerable groups, including poor and marginalised populations and migrants and refugees, are at greater risk of developing MDR TB.

A new study into collective actions in support of vulnerable groups — including asylum seekers and refugees — is being led by the University of Leicester, in collaboration with the Université de Nantes.

Although not without exceptions, the evidence generally indicates that more stringent graduation requirements reduced high school graduation rates among vulnerable groups, specifically low - achieving students (including those with learning disabilities), students of color, and urban low - income students.

Schools use the PDG in a number of different ways, including nurture groups for children who may be socially and emotionally vulnerable, out - of - hours school learning, on - site multi-agency support and better tracking of pupils as they progress through school.

Her work involves the development of learning events and products, including forums, study tours, webinars, discussion groups, and publications, and the dissemination of policy and practice guidance to multiple audiences to frame issues, inform policy, and create conversations that improve education and the lives of vulnerable students and youth.

We favor investments that generate positive impacts for people and communities in need, with a special focus on vulnerable groups, including low - income populations, minorities, and immigrants.

Radisson Hotel Group and our franchisees often work with schools and non-profit organizations to offer trainee positions and job experience opportunities for young people, including at - risk - youth and other vulnerable members of society.

Harmony Hammond is included in the group exhibition Terribly Vulnerable and Terribly Hard at Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada

«What's more, while every American's health is threatened by climate change, certain groups of people — including children, seniors, low - income communities, and those living with a chronic disease like asthma — are especially vulnerable,» the statement read.

Transport systems that prioritize active transport and rapid transit systems, along with better urban land use, also can help improve access for vulnerable groups, including children, the elderly, people with disabilities, and lower wage earners, enhancing health equity.

The newly formed V20 group (the V stands for vulnerable) includes Bangladesh, Kiribati, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Indeed, federal research finds that human - induced climate change «will have the largest health impact on vulnerable populations including... some communities of color, limited English proficiency and immigrant groups, Indigenous peoples,» and others.

A frequently used decision - making framework that provides for the inclusion of economic and non-economic indicators to measure the impacts of a policy, including impacts on vulnerable groups and ecosystems, is multicriteria analysis (MCA).

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

These groups, which include vulnerable nations such as Bangladesh and Vanuatu, only need provide information on their plans to develop in a low - carbon fashion.

This year's Fellowship group represents some of the most vulnerable countries to climate - related impacts, including six indigenous journalists — three of whom come from the Pacific Islands — who will add unique voices to global coverage as Fiji prepares to lead the talks.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

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They include: considering where children and other vulnerable groups are disadvantaged by Laspo, and amending appropriately; reversing changes to judicial review; developing a new process for exceptional funding; and abolishing the mandatory telephone gateway as the only route to accessing certain civil legal aid services.

Those purposes include the prevention of arbitrary disadvantage or exclusion based on enumerated grounds, so that individuals deemed to be vulnerable by virtue of a group characteristic can be protected from discrimination.

A Toronto - based human rights group is urging Canada to stop detaining vulnerable migrants, including children and those with mental illness, as Canada is approaching its third Universal Periodic Review on human rights by the United Nations Human Rights Council.

The Panel has a remit to represent the interests of the many different consumers of legal services, including small businesses and charities, and with a priority for vulnerable groups of consumers.

As such, our speakers include legal professionals, academics, social workers, government officials, and individuals who belong to vulnerable groups.

`... the evolutionary process has included developments in relation to children giving evidence in family proceedings (Re W (Children)(Family Proceedings: Evidence)[2010] UKSC 12, [2010] 1 FLR 1485), guidelines to encourage judges to enable children to feel more involved and connected with proceedings in which important decisions are made in their lives (Guidelines for Judges Meeting Children who are Subject to Family Proceedings [2010] 2 FLR 1872), the involvement of the Children and Vulnerable Witnesses Working Group (culminating in a final report dated February 2015, see [2015] Family Law 443), and recognition that the child's state of mind may have a part to play in establishing habitual residence (Re LC (Children)[2014] UKSC 1).»

This focus must include all people, especially members of immigrant, aboriginal and rural populations and other vulnerable groups.

For example, the option of requiring «self - referral» by patients was insufficient for many reasons, including a disproportionate burden on vulnerable and marginalized groups.

Other factors behind the increased use of background checks include well publicized incidents of workplace violence, multi-million dollar negligent hiring verdicts, a sharp rise in cases of resume fraud including some well publicized examples of fake degrees, and a national awareness of the dangers to children and other vulnerable groups when unqualified or dangerous persons are allowed access to them.

In recognition of the high prevalence rates and impacts on vulnerable groups and the specialist needs of specific sub-populations, funders including governments at all levels in policy and service funding would be well placed to set key targets and outcomes to «close these gaps».

More data are needed that focus specifically on the 10 — 14 age - group; on young adolescent males» experiences and needs; and on the most marginalized or vulnerable groups of very young adolescents, including refugees and other displaced people, LGBTQ adolescents, out - of - school adolescents, adolescents exposed to transactional sex, those living with HIV and those with disabilities.

The range of expected topics includes: group limited reparenting, group imagery rescripting, exercises to get through maladaptive coping modes, facilitating healing experiences for the vulnerable child mode, play for the happy child mode and group interventions to diminish the control of the demanding or punitive critic modes.

The range of possible topics includes: group limited reparenting, group imagery rescripting, exercises to get through maladaptive coping modes, facilitating healing experiences for the vulnerable child mode, play for the happy child mode and group interventions to diminish the control of the demanding or punitive critic modes.