These events also focused on the issue of addressing negative social attitudes.

Prevailing social attitudes remained the major obstacle to progress in that regard, hence the Government, in partnership with non governmental organizations, was taking steps to change those attitudes through awareness raising campaigns that focused on health issues.

The gender prejudiced environment favours the persistence of discriminating attitudes and primarily restricts women's participation in social, economic and political life.

We can change national attitudes to women and national attitudes to HIV.

Our attitudes must change.

Attitudes towards gender roles

Attitudes to parental roles

These attitudes are changing.

The analysis of the attitudes of women shows that women do not see social risks in the expansion of prostitution and the increasing network of brothels.

In some countries and regions, shifting social attitudes towards family, marriage and parenting are impacting on young children's experiences of early childhood, for example following family separations and reformations.

The social fabric of many countries was extremely complex, but discriminatory attitudes stemming from religious and cultural traditions were not a legitimate excuse for failure to implement the Convention.

(b) Undertake all necessary measures to combat discriminatory attitudes towards children with disabilities, particularly amongst children and parents, and promote their participation in all aspects of social and cultural life

The objective of the campaign in Estonia was to start a discussion about the issue of trafficking in women as a social problem and to start changing the existing attitudes.

The next report should indicate what steps were being taken to educate the general public in Gabon in order to change stereotypical attitudes towards women, thereby raising their social status.

Attitudes towards women in the Health System

Women with children were entitled to alimony even if divorce were granted because of the woman's fault, and the social attitudes to divorced women did not cause them any significant problem.

These social ills evidence a different kind of poverty one rooted in the values and attitudes that shape relationships between individuals, communities, and nations as well as between the governors and the governed.

These kids have attitudes that you just can't believe.

We need to change attitudes to women in Africa.

UNIFEM uses public campaigns and media to change attitudes.

In many developing countries, women were still a long way from achieving equal opportunities and traditional biases, poverty, cultural perceptions, social attitudes and women's health needs continued to limit their access to basic rights.

In 2000 they had particularly interesting questions about racial attitudes.

At the same time, PISA measures students social and emotional skills and attitudes toward learning, as well as educational equity and parental support all of which provides indispensable context for understanding scores on international assessments.

The report notes, however, that public attitudes have lagged behind policy.

Effective measures should be taken to overcome these attitudes and practices.

Emphasizing that poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion and economic disparities are closely associated with racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and contribute to the persistence of racist attitudes and practices which in turn generate more poverty,

Emphasizing that poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion and economic disparities are closely associated with racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and contribute to the persistence of racist attitudes and practices, which in turn generate more poverty,

Indeed, such attitudes are potentially disastrous. If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.

And if we can change enough communities, we can change national attitudes.

Discriminatory attitudes in relation to the carriers of the HIV are condemned.

So we really need to think about looking at teacher attitudes and finding ways to change the attitudes so that teachers are much more open and accepting of boy cultures in their classrooms.

They change the way communities think we need to change attitudes to HIV.

However, it is also clear that changing of values and attitudes takes time.

I am convinced that it is indispensable to change attitudes in the capitals.

To be sure, change creates discomfort, and may even cause tension and conflict. But the conservative attitudes underlying opposition to change are anything but social, for they would deny the poorest of Europe s poor a chance to improve their lot.

In 2003, the Open Society Institute conducted a gender equality monitoring survey commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs with the aim to find out the opinions and attitudes of society towards gender equality and the role of women and men.

Well we studied teenagers' attitudes to photographs of patients having this corrective facial surgery.

Nowhere is it more important to promote those values and attitudes than among youth.

Attitudes must be changed, and cultural patterns which discriminated against women must be eliminated.

She enquired about the basis for racist attitudes towards members of the Traveller community.

Legal and punitive measures cannot be totally successful unless the attitudes of society change.

Indicators are needed to track changes in norms, values and attitudes over time.19

Our results provide a surprisingly nuanced picture of Saudi attitudes. Compared to respondents in the other Middle Eastern countries, Saudis were less religious overall, and their attitudes toward democracy and arranged marriage also indicate a moderate undercurrent.

The TFR in China and India was 6.1 and 5.9, respectively, in 1950. It now stands at 1.8 in China, owing to the authorities aggressive one child policy, while rapid urbanization and changing social attitudes have brought down India s TFR to 2.6.

Despite the fact that there is no automatic linkage between poverty and terrorism, communities can be exposed to extreme attitudes by fanatical groups as a result of grave social and economic problems, especially when associated with the absence of civil and political liberties.