And our community's never been more connected or more empowered.

In addition, civil society and community groups are being assisted to generate information in specific areas, such as on the protection and care of children orphaned due to AIDS, a key element of the Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS campaign.

These community structures facilitate community representation in the assessment and selection of community empowerment projects.

A new institutional architecture to address social equity and attain social cohesion is urgently called for.

Various social movements, including unions, students, local communities and environmental, cultural and other groups, were united in a common struggle, involving, inter alia, support for public education, defence against the encroachment on community rights by developers, environmental protection and opposition to the death penalty.

In some countries and locations, it is particularly important to pursue processes that engage individual communities in tourism planning and that take account of traditional social structures, notably those of indigenous groups.

A breakdown of family and community structures is the result.

The National Development Program (Propenas 2000 2004) advocated two strategies to eradicate poverty, namely (a) satisfaction of the basic needs of the poor and protection of families and community groups living in poverty and, (b) assistance to community groups living in structural poverty.

In more homogenous societies, such as Libya, social solidarity tends to follow tribal and partisan lines. In Tunisia, too, there has been a similar regression to mechanistic types of solidarity organized around tribal, regional, and religious identities.

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At the same time, it is important not to lose sight of the vital contribution volunteerism makes to the social fabric of communities and nations, reinforcing trust and solidarity and offering one front in the fight against exclusion.

The Uniting for Consensus proposal is flexible in leaving it to the regions to determine the duration of each regional mandate.

In that regard, he endorsed the principles of international solidarity and burden sharing, in view of the economic and social strains that large flows of refugees caused to host communities.

The right to associate of persons belonging to minorities extends both to national and to international associations.

This leads to lack of trust between the companies and the communities.

d) Consultation support at individual, group, and community levels,

One of the more successful programmes aimed at increasing sustainable livelihood opportunities and community empowerment is the Afghan National Solidarity Programme.

(d) Support initiatives of community groups and the informal sector

With God's help, we quickly restored our economy and began the task of bringing our diverse communities together.

A solidarity fund had been established to reduce marginalization and ensure national cohesion, seeking to strike a balance between regions and between different sections of society.

(h) Enhancing social cohesion and solidarity by

The Ministry for the Family, Social Protection and Solidarity was the body chiefly responsible for affairs related to women.

The international community must therefore stand united against terrorism.

In addition, the United Nations political and peacekeeping missions in the subregion, working in collaboration with local civil society groups, regularly promote messages of peace to the affected communities.

MINUSTAH organized focus groups, involving residents affected by violence and community leaders, to develop modalities for reintegrating juvenile members of the armed groups into their communities.

The facility links four key groups, comprising local authorities, community based organizations, local finance institutions and international donor programmes.

(b) Witnessing through social action in the areas of community, national and international life

In the pursuit of justice necessary for the health of the whole community of life and in solidarity with the poor and oppressed, its members engage in a variety of works from grassroots communities to policy making bodies.

In a world where many countries and regions were affected by ethnic contradictions, China had managed to preserve national unity, social stability and progress.

Establishment of the pension support fund for women running small businesses, community mothers and women workers in the urban and rural informal sector (Law 100 of 1993, art. 25).

Community participation, equal rights and support groups and volunteerism

They include Governments, community based organizations, civil society organizations, children's groups and international organizations.

On 22 July, six members of a political opposition group were detained in Lautem district following violent clashes with the local community, which reportedly opposed the group's opening of an office and the raising of its flag in the village of Pitilete.

MINUSTAH continued its sensitization campaign with other illegal armed groups on a community by community basis.

Presently, the above data are shared with the Ministry of Social Security and National Solidarity.

Summary of the survey of economic and social developments in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia region, 2005

And what he stood for was unity, the unity of the family.

(e) Cooperation and solidarity for subregional economic integration and progress

This task should be shared with the country rapporteur.

K. Community participation, equal rights and support groups and volunteerism

In the framework of restructuring, the police is also establishing community police forums with a view to enhancing cooperation and dialogue between the police and their communities and to combat crime in the community through joint action and community vigilance.

The third front involves assorted petty particularisms parties representing the sectarian interests of specific castes, sub regions, or linguistic groups. The danger is that such groups could accentuate the divisions of a fractious society, rather than pull everyone together in the collective national interest.

The EU cannot simply proclaim solidarity as a core value and then do nothing to foster it among those who feel marginalized. They, too, must be allowed to feel those ties of unity resulting from feelings and sympathy.

Action is also being taken to give organized community groups involved in women apos s issues a more active role, by developing a community self help network and a support group for women victims of violence.

The Security Council calls upon the Government of National Unity and Transition to strengthen its support for the implementation of the disarmament and community reintegration programme for Ituri militiamen.