This puts them into a disadvantaged position in relation to other workers.

The price of homes continues to rise steadily, leaving part of the population in a disadvantaged position.

Given the disadvantaged position of developing country suppliers in terms of capital, management techniques and access to technology, local distributors are in a weak competitive position.

87. The right to development grew out of the economic inequality and the disadvantaged position of the underdeveloped countries.

The key factors in this disadvantaged position are an insufficient knowledge of the Dutch language and Dutch society, poor education, and unemployment.

Vulnerable and disadvantaged groups

Some regulations, including those on women's age of retirement, jobs that are prohibited or limited for women, are in fact putting many women labourers in a disadvantaged position.

Education and training The lack of proper resources to invest in schools and ensure the schooling of girls determines the disadvantaged position of the women of the future.

Disadvantaged School Support Programme (PAED).

The Netherlands' successful legislation and policy specifically targeting established immigrants are geared towards supporting disadvantaged members of ethnic minorities and helping them to strengthen their overall position in Dutch society.

Access to justice by disadvantaged groups

B. Landlocked and geographically disadvantaged States

Provisions to reach the most disadvantaged groups.

Most African States continue to be seriously disadvantaged.

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Denial of access to justice by disadvantaged groups

Paragraph 5 (b) of the guidelines (disadvantaged groups)

The Government bases its actions on the assumption that the target group wishes to participate actively in society and considers improvements in their current disadvantaged position to be their own responsibility to an important extent.

Women are not only disadvantaged within society generally, but are also in the lowest rank within each disadvantaged group the poorest of the poor.

The Committee expresses its concern that women continue to be in a disadvantaged position in society in MSAR, especially with regard to employment and equal pay for work of equal value and participation in decision making.

Furthermore, special measures (art. 22) might be appropriate when indigenous people were in a disadvantaged position in comparison with the rest of society, but entitlement to such special measures was not a right under international law.

Various assistance is available to girls in disadvantaged areas.

Terrorism wounds the poor and disadvantaged ever so much.

Groups who are disadvantaged in relation to health care

In competition for FDI, poorer countries are relatively disadvantaged.

Although in some countries boys are disadvantaged in terms of dropout rates and learning achievement, it is mainly girls who are disadvantaged both as a group and as a subgroup of the disadvantaged, such as rural poor, ethnic minorities and indigenous populations.

An employer as a respondent is obliged to produce evidence that a female employee is not put into a disadvantaged position on the grounds of gender, but that such a situation is a consequence of other factors.

Paragraph 3 (b) of the guidelines (vulnerable and disadvantaged groups)

Research paper on disadvantaged rural women in Nepal. FAO, Bangkok.

Mainly, however, girls are disadvantaged, both as a group and as a sub group of the disadvantaged, such as the rural poor, ethnic minorities and indigenous populations.

Relevant factors include the person's position in society, whether he or she was disadvantaged by racial discrimination in the past, whether the discrimination is based on a specified ground or not and whether the discrimination affected the person's dignity.

The programme would address, in a multidisciplinary way, the various social and economic factors that put women entering the labour force in a disadvantaged position and would emphasize a participatory approach to the formulation and implementation of all activities.

Every disadvantaged nation, and perhaps our own nation, becomes our patient.

Minorities are significantly disadvantaged throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina in material terms.

Reading, travelling and working with and for the disadvantaged in society.

For many disadvantaged segments of the population, however, serious challenges remain.

Rural women generally remain very disadvantaged compared with their urban counterparts.

30. Persons with disabilities represented 13 per cent of the population of Ecuador and, despite laws protecting them against discrimination and other forms of unfair treatment, their disadvantaged position was closely linked to the overall socio economic conditions in the country.

Promoting integration and combating discriminations against disadvantaged persons in the labour market

Designated groups refers to the racially disadvantaged, women, and persons with disabilities.

Palestine refugees in Lebanon are among the most disadvantaged in the region.

The international community must focus its action on vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.

Lower steering position. Lower steering position.

In India, the drop out rate among disadvantaged groups is estimated at 80 .

C. Knowledge networks through information and communication technology access points for disadvantaged communities