Access to vulnerable populations

Protecting the rights of vulnerable populations

The situation of insecurity primarily affects the most vulnerable populations, especially refugees, children, women and the elderly.

Efforts of working with vulnerable or special populations

Displaced populations are more vulnerable to pressures to return.

The denial or obstruction of access to vulnerable populations continues.

Many of our countries are faced with large populations of two of the most vulnerable age groups children and senior citizens.

Even fewer countries have enacted laws to protect vulnerable populations from discrimination, including displaced populations and refugees.

That means critical opportunities to prevent epidemics concentrated in the most vulnerable populations from spreading to the larger population are being missed.

Supporting the most vulnerable

As the statistics reveal, the phenomenon remains a genuine public health crisis and affects, in particular, the most vulnerable populations in developing countries.

It is primarily in the states affected by war, chronic disasters and severe dislocation that the poorest and the most vulnerable populations reside.

Many speakers mentioned the need to target at risk and vulnerable populations.

Many speakers mentioned the need to target at risk and vulnerable populations.

Moreover, few countries had adopted legislation to protect vulnerable populations from discrimination.

Moreover, the distribution of some diseases would change, making human populations more vulnerable.

(e) Focusing on special needs efforts of working with vulnerable or special populations

The protection of vulnerable populations remained a key priority during the reporting period.

This approach misses the critical opportunity to prevent an epidemic that is concentrated in the most vulnerable populations from spreading to the population at large.

In several countries, including Mali, Mauritania and Niger, vulnerable populations suffered from severe malnutrition.

D. Measures to protect vulnerable groups and populations disadvantaged as a result of racism

Obviously, the poorest and most vulnerable countries would suffer most.

They're also some of the most vulnerable.

44. Most developing countries, at grips with immediate fiscal and monetary problems, applied structural adjustment programmes, which eroded their social and human development programmes and thus adversely affected the most vulnerable segments of their populations.

Military escorts continue to facilitate humanitarian assessments and food deliveries to vulnerable populations in North Kivu.

They are also most vulnerable to natural disasters.

The most vulnerable are the least developed countries.

As evidenced in many recent sanction regimes, the unintended impact of sanctions requires that humanitarian assistance be provided as a buffer for the most vulnerable elements of the affected populations.

(d) Concern was expressed that prison populations were a vulnerable group that required special kinds of intervention

Parties with particularly high or low populations reported on factors that render them vulnerable to climate change.

It stresses in particular the urgent need for providing better physical protection for displaced populations as well as for other vulnerable groups, in particular women and children. Efforts should be focused in areas where these populations and groups are most at risk.

And often they're the most vulnerable element of all.

But it's just now that they are most vulnerable

We realize the sensibilities that raising the issue of displaced persons may arouse, but we cannot forget that populations of displaced civilians are among the most vulnerable groups in conflict situations.

Priority attention must be focused on reducing poverty and the disparities affecting the most vulnerable groups, and on the reintegration into society of populations uprooted by conflict and the external debt.

The ability to provide protection to vulnerable populations is also closely linked to the safety of relief workers.

He underlined the role of peacekeeping operations in providing access to vulnerable populations and making humanitarian assistance accessible.

Post conflict transitions typically lead to new areas being accessible, which usually harbour pockets of extremely vulnerable populations.

quot E. Measures to protect vulnerable groups and populations disadvantaged as a result of racism or racial discrimination

Conversely, developing countries would benefit most increasing sea turtle populations.

When disaster struck, the most vulnerable segments of society were the ones most affected.

Indeed, in considering and studying the list of crises on the Council's agenda, we see it playing that role essentially on behalf of the most fragile and vulnerable regions, countries or populations.

In the global economy, the most vulnerable are whole countries.

The United Nations is the champion of the most vulnerable.

In the most vulnerable economies, these have reached crisis proportions.