Sentences with phrase «vulnerable groups under»

The report also recommends that the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice collect demographic information on bullied students to use in assessing the level of protection that exists for vulnerable groups under civil rights laws.

Indeed, targeting Republican lawmakers has become a key part of the mayor's strategy to ensure protections for vulnerable groups under the incoming Trump administration.

Not exact matches

During emergency situations, disease and death rates among babies and children are higher than for any other age group; and the younger the child, the higher the risk, leaving babies under six months most vulnerable.

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.

Interventions targeted to under - resourced groups who may face «treat or eat» choices could produce substantial health gains for these vulnerable patients.»

In the case of the right to water, for example, the Committee has emphasized that one of the minimum obligations under the Covenant is «to adopt relatively low - cost targeted water programs to protect vulnerable and marginalized groups» (34).

LIVELIHOOD ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN DROUGHT - PRONE AREAS: DEVELOPING INSTITUTIONS AND OPTIONS, BANGLADESH (FAO AND THE ASIAN DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CENTRE (ADPC)-RRB-: The project, implemented under the Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Programme and in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), specifically looks at: characterization of livelihood systems; profiling of vulnerable groups; assessment of past and current climate impacts; and understanding of local perceptions of climate impacts, local coping capacities, and existing adaptation strategies.

This is due to the fact that the law is intended to protect a vulnerable group (minors) and assumes that an individual under the age of 18 is unable to consent to sexual touching when the individual doing the touching occupies a position of authority or power, is in a relationship of dependency with the victim or is in an exploitative relationship with the victim.

It is so wrong that I should feel like withdrawing from adoption support groups provided by the LA as I now feel under scrutiny, vulnerable and unable to speak freely about how I feel.

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

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.

The HRC has confirmed that different rights for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups are permissible under the ICCPR at paragraph 10 of General Comment 18.