Sentences with phrase «vulnerable people live»

It aims to map the places in the world where the most vulnerable people live in a proactive way.

And the most vulnerable people live in the poorest nations, which are least responsible for causing climate change and least able to cope with the consequences.

A version that doesn't extend to some of the most vulnerable people living in Britain today: Afghan asylum seekers.

Bill 36, The Adult Abuse Registry Act and Amendments to the Vulnerable Persons Living with a Mental Disabilitly Act, will create Canada's first adult abuse registry (Yosie Saint - Cyr first wrote about it on Slaw here).

The proposed changes address a gap in The Vulnerable Persons Living with a Mental Disability Act that has made it difficult to charge anyone for abuse or neglect of an adult with an intellectual disability.

Not exact matches

«The most amazing stories are told, and people share very vulnerable things about their lives,» Johnson says.

Take advantage of the most frightening and vulnerable time in a person's life to impose your vile fantasies of a tortuous after life.

«Additionally, the UK Government's # 1.1 billion commitment is helping hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people in Syria and the region to rebuild their lives and next month's Syria conference in London will raise significant new funding from the international community.

«The danger is that any law allowing assisted suicide or euthanasia will be open to abuse, to extension, and will put pressure on vulnerable people to end their lives.»

Heaven forbid we raise the tax rate on the very richest Americans to support the lives of the most vulnerable people.

Artists also should know that when they take material from life for their work, they'd better transform it thoroughly, particularly when it's from vulnerable people.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

helpthehospices.org.uk / media - centre / press - releases / hospice - care - and - the - liverpool - care - pathway /] that «recent media coverage around a small number of distressing stories has been sensationalist and at times inaccurate», and that «it risks causing unnecessary distress to people at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives and may even prevent people from receiving the care that they need».

To break through the chains of debt, we must commit to speaking specific and vulnerable truths into the lives of people whose souls long for financial hope.

In addition to these groups, the church can also provide group social relations to persons who are exposed to particular life stresses which make them emotionally vulnerable.

Just this past week, on Good Friday in fact, the formation of a «new Christian coalition, called the Circle of Protection,» was announced, intended «to resist budget cuts that undermine the lives, dignity, and rights of poor and vulnerable people.»

We're living up to the God - instilled power of the Church when we rush to the aid of vulnerable people in times of crisis.

If you care about the people in this world living closest to the margins, then you need to do everything in your power to slow the rate at which the planet warms, for they are the most vulnerable.

A life transition is a time when people are unusually vulnerable, a time when they can learn to see and trust the power of God's grace in their lives in some new way.

Ofsted, the school's inspectorate, claims St Benedict's Catholic School in Bury St Edmonds is not preparing people for life in Britain and is leaving pupils vulnerable to extremism.

He is an amazing person, and is all over our community helping our vulnerable residents, and serves as pastor in 2 churches, changing minds and lives, one person at a time.

We need to ask why people were living in cramped poverty in inadequate housing on this vulnerable island?

Please pray that God would inspire the hearts of international leaders, and raise up people who will transform the lives of vulnerable children affected by this crisis.»

But she said social workers had considerable power over the lives of vulnerable people and said trust was a precious professional commodity.

We give witness that the Church's teachings — on the dignity of the human person and the value of human life from conception to natural death; on the meaning of human sexuality, the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women; on openness to life and the gift of motherhood; and on marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman — provide a sure guide to the Christian life, promote women's flourishing, and serve to protect the poor and most vulnerable among us.

Described as the Mother Teresa of Pakistan, Dr Ruth Pfau, 87, moved to Pakistan and spent more than fifty years of her life helping some of the country's most vulnerable people.

Bearing in mind that we are speaking not of isolated statutes, but of authoritative renderings of the fundamental law, such laws would be laws (1) that deny protection to the weak and the vulnerable, especially in matters of life and death, and (2) that systematically remove the legal and political ability of the people to redress the situation.

In fact, the poorest people are entirely right to be afraid, since they are the most vulnerable in many aspects of life.

The impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» lives that have occurred through colonisation mean that remaining knowledge and skills are vulnerable to loss.

«Forget that the outsized American consumption of fossil fuels has directly contributed to climate change through greenhouse gas pollution, and impacted the lives of the world's most vulnerable people.

The main new project for which we now need bread is Together We Rise, a new project to help people living with mental health issues, and some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people facing social exclusion, to benefit from the therapeutic, social and employment opportunities offered by Real Bread making.

Ben & Jerry's has teamed up with the International Rescue Committee to ask concerned citizens to contact European leaders and ask them to support legislation to help some of the world's most vulnerable people rebuild their lives in safety.

I have seen vulnerable / disabled people get told they will have to live on less and the elder generation suffer in the cold due to less funding, then I turn round and see a EPL team get given this much...

The largest independent charity of its kind in the United Kingdom, Nordoff Robbins supports thousands of people through its dedication to changing the lives of the vulnerable and isolated.

These powerful little persons left me thinking about what it means to be truly vulnerable in my life... or not.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

It's taken me a while to share these images - it turns out that it's far easier to share images of the vulnerable, beautiful, life - changing moments of other people's lives than to share my own.

In fact, the intensive coupling that some married partners practice (whereby all of the once - important people in their lives are moved to the back burner as the marital relationship becomes all - consuming) may be what leaves people particularly vulnerable to loneliness and dying alone when the marriage ends.

«It's the most vulnerable time frame [in a person's life].»

Actionaid work with and support the poorest and most vulnerable people to fight for and gain their rights to food, shelter, work, basic healthcare and a voice in the decisions that affect their lives.

Against a backdrop of rising homelessness, we ask the government again to rethink this ill - conceived policy and to ensure disabled people receiving disability living allowance, and other vulnerable people, are exempt from the bedroom tax before it comes into effect on April 1st.»

Without accelerating action on cold homes, between 2015 - 2030, NEA estimates that over 125,000 vulnerable people across the UK may die needlessly due to living in a cold home.

Indeed, there are many communities where ill - timed retrenchment may cause serious harm to the most vulnerable, and weaken the life - chances of children and young people in the most disadvantaged households.

Many vulnerable people are still impacted by the bedroom tax such as the poor and the disabled and it is actively reducing their living standards.

There's strong bipartisan support among the region's state delegation for paying a living wage to Direct Support Professionals — the people responsible for caring for society's most vulnerable individuals.

«I'm not the type of person that says, «Look, he can't be beaten, he's not vulnerable, let's give him a life term, let's make him the monarch of the state of New York,»» DeFrancisco said.

It is a nasty, punitive measure that will simply add a lot of distress to the lives of some very vulnerable - very ill - people.

The Director stated that given the experience Osun gathered in its introduction and implementation of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme and the social welfare for Osun's most vulnerable old people called Agba Osun, the Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government has touched on the very aspects of national life that had contributed to youth restiveness, kidnapping, other crimes and care for the desperately poor.

By hastily rubber - stamping this deeply problematic proposal, the Committee has taken a step toward a future in which the lives of terminally - ill persons are treated as expendable, and in which insurance companies will be at liberty to make cost - saving coverage decisions that steer vulnerable individuals toward physician - assisted death.

The Commission's report describes the current legal status of assisted dying as «inadequate and incoherent» and recommends that assisted dying be legalised for terminally ill adults alongside a number of important safeguards to protect vulnerable people, and the condition that «the patient must take the final action that will end their own life».