Fifth, the parties must identify practical means to ensure that the basic survival needs of their forces are met, including food supplies for the combatants, without violating the ceasefire.

As a rule, women and children are the main victims of armed conflict, because conflicts confine them to places where they have no access to their basic needs for survival.

(i) Public education programs that must be linked with income generating activities that eliminate the need to rely on scrap metal collection as the means to meet basic survival needs

And yet I see it as something that's just as basic for survival long term as learning some of the basic things about public health.

Recognizing that development can only be sustainable on a long term basis if development policies are responsive to people's needs and ensure people's participation both in their design and implementation, while stressing the fact that meeting the basic human needs essential for survival is a sine qua non condition for an effective democracy,

Without these none of the four basic needs can be sustained.

13 45 per person per year are required to meet basic infrastructural needs, 30 per person per year for basic health needs, 15 per person per year for basic education, and 10 per person per year for other high priority items.

Minimum survival needs of refugees were not always met nor were refugees necessarily safe in countries of asylum.

Vital human needs means waters used for immediate human survival, including drinking, cooking, and sanitary needs, as well as water needed for the immediate sustenance of a household.

The voluntariness of repatriation was threatened through refugees no longer being able to meet their minimum survival needs in camps.

If anything, those resources should be increased in order to fulfil basic humanitarian needs.

Over half the children in the developing world still live without the basic services, commodities and protection which are critical for their survival and development.

Women's advancement could only be achieved if women's health needs at basic levels were addressed.

Accelerating development and meeting people's basic needs would go a long way to improving security.

On the bottom tier we have basic needs shelter, clothing, food, water, mating and so forth.

Haiti is a country with a per capital gross national product of 415, whose inhabitants lack the basic resources necessary for survival with a minimum of dignity.

Growing up in conditions of absolute poverty has even more serious consequences, threatening children's survival and their health, as well as undermining the basic quality of life.

Delegations, especially from Africa, welcomed the emphasis on immunization within the focus area on child survival and development, on HIV AIDS and on basic education and gender equality.

Through the Emergency Shelter Program, homeless persons receive shelter, food and other services to meet basic needs.

Table 1 Poverty levels, calculated using the unmet basic needs (UBN) method, 1998 2001 (Percentages of the population)

There is a link between purely military action and economic action aimed at meeting the people's basic needs.

Destitute groups of the population include the elderly, pensioners by and large, whose pensions cannot satisfy basic living needs.

Studies show that once the basic needs of shelter and food are met, additional wealth adds very little to happiness.

Even among those employed, 45 per cent do not earn enough to provide for the basic needs of their families.

The program provides for a person's basic needs while encouraging and supporting them in their efforts to become self sufficient.

That is the centrepiece of peacebuilding building peace by building good governance, meeting basic human needs and fostering social harmony.

And it turns out, from our research, that it boils down to survival survival for us and survival for our loved ones.

Cultural Survival

Part of Bhutan s GNH revolves, of course, around meeting basic needs improved health care, reduced maternal and child mortality, greater educational attainment, and better infrastructure, especially electricity, water, and sanitation. This focus on material improvement aimed at meeting basic needs makes sense for a country at Bhutan s relatively low income level.

However, even if most remittances fund consumption, they may still make a valuable contribution towards satisfying basic needs and relieving poverty.

Therefore, desertification ranks among the greatest environmental challenges today and is a major impediment to meeting basic human needs in drylands.

The identification of best practises and basic needs is one of the main outcomes of the first phase of the Programme.

She wondered, in particular, about the basic livelihood of women, including how much food was produced, how much international assistance was required to meet food needs, and whether such needs were being met.

Battle for survival

Enhanced child survival

Are we happy to live in a world where the rich can rely on ever more clever technical tricks, while we ignore the right of poor countries and communities to the basic requirements of survival?

Among the population related activities that countries support include poverty alleviation, primary health care delivery systems, child health and survival, basic education, including girls' and women's education, empowerment of women, rural development and income generation.

1.140 To alleviate poverty among the most vulnerable within the Palestine refugee community by linking short term relief to longer term development needs, through a needs based approach which addresses actual needs while emphasizing equality of opportunity and the right to basic human development.

The recommendations address only one basic dimension of the issue, without referring to the needs and problems of third States in implementing sanctions.

In particular, they will the address the ad hoc basic needs of developing countries that are not covered through donor funded technical assistance.

After a year of respite, economic contraction continued in 2004, with dire consequences for poverty, production capacity and the Palestinian people's basic needs.

The unprecedented generosity after the Indian Ocean tsunami had given it the rare opportunity to rebuild community infrastructure and maintain programming for longer than usual, rather than merely meeting immediate survival needs.

A young person whose basic needs for food, clothing and shelter are not met cannot reasonably be expected to attend school or pursue education.

Education is the key to the eradication of poverty NGOs should work together towards sustainable development at the local level so that the poor will not be forced to spend their lives and energy on basic survival.

Although this view of evolution would not have been possible before the discovery of DNA, it is no coincidence that it rose to prominence in the age of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. To be sure, the selfish gene needs to be altruistic insofar as its survival depends on the survival of the kinship group.