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As long as you are in New Zealand, regardless whether you are a businessman, traveler, jobless, employee, young or old, you are eligible to make claims from ACC.

This ability is important from an early age and is needed to navigate everyday life.

This should include support for efforts to promote literacy, including functional literacy, formal and non-formal education, beginning with early childhood and continuing on a lifelong basis, education in the mother tongue in the early stages of learning, values education including social and moral awareness, the development of a culture of dialogue, a commitment to a culture of peace, education for sustainable development, teacher training, technical and vocational education and training (geared towards enhancing employability and drawing on the expertise of UNEVOC) as well as science and technology education.

[...] [...] education available, free and compulsory for all children, ensuring that all children have access to good-quality education from an early age, and making secondary [...] [...]

In its most recent report, the World Health Organization (WHO) appeals to the international community to intensify its work in combating risk factors, both by passing laws and through education programmes that stress the importance of a healthy lifestyle, as well as through promoting the benefits of a healthy diet and physical activity from a very early age.

As a result of rapid technological development, children were absorbing great quantities of information and advertisement starting from an early age, and there were calls by civil society for measures to protect children from violent television and video content.

Immunohistological reactions to specific antibodies against thyroglobulin (TG) showed that immunopositive substances were distributed at the cytomembrane of follicle epithelial cells, around the perimeter of the follicle lumen and in the center colloid.

The film portrays the pressure the young children carry throughout the years in order to improve life not only for themselves, but also for their families.

If our child with a disability is very young we will need to review our will regularly, particularly if their competencies change as they grow older.

The harmful effects thereof on children may include the end of access to proper education and health services, separation from their parents, and early introduction to child labour.

[...] pregnant women and mothers of young [...]

What we need are long-term public education efforts to alert parents to the importance of responsible parenthood and the need for safety measures to protect young children.

3.1 The complainant claims that his personal situation and state of health mean that he should not be deported, especially given that he has two young children (born in 2002 and 2005) and that his wife has psychological problems brought on by his detention and by fears of his forced removal to Haiti.

The Committee is further concerned about the lack of day-care facilities for children aged 0-2 years old that often obliges the biological parents to send their young children to live with their grandparents, sometimes in a different island, until they reach the age of compulsory school attendance.

(b) The Government should develop a comprehensive national housing strategy to ensure the inclusion of more diversified forms of housing to be provided for vulnerable groups, such as low-income households, large families, single mothers with young children, minorities, persons with disabilities, the elderly, internal migrant workers, refugees and asylum-seekers

First, they are physically vulnerable, owing to their age and their inability to assert themselves in an environment where they look up to the older members of the family and society to provide for them and look after them.

It was emphasized that space education should be part of mainstream education and should be offered to students at all levels of the educational system, from a young age to the university level.

Even now, in the twenty-first century, there are many urban areas in the world where the only regular or reliable waste collection services (if they exist at all) are provided by illegal one-truck businesses run from people’s homes; where adolescents and their small sisters and brothers see the dump site as a playground and a source of materials to sell for pocket money; where informal entrepreneurs who risk their health and safety to recycle are persecuted instead of praised, criminalized instead of commended; where the safest way of managing hazardous industrial materials is for workers to burn them openly and breathe in the toxic fumes?

In addition to these monolithic challenges, the well being of the youngest children is further threatened by the impacts of climate change which are causing environmental devastation and natural disasters with increasing ferocity, and a global economic crisis which is severely limiting national capabilities in the fields of education, health, nutrition and social protection, with dire consequences for poor and vulnerable children and their families.

A study of young twins in Malawi reveals that a severe, acute form of malnutrition called kwashiorkor is associated with certain gut bacteria, and not nutrition alone.

The draft resolution addressed the fact that all children, even very young ones, were entitled to full enjoyment of all rights provided for by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Miss HAYAT Keran highlighted that the Administration should establish more resource schools and allocate resources to these schools and NGOs to organise activities for NCS students to use Chinese to communicate during their early ages; provide more vocational training programmes in English for NCS students; employ some South Asians as Teaching Assistants to help parents of NCS students to communicate with teachers; and promote the awareness of ethnic minority parents about the current and future new academic systems in Hong Kong.

I have seen older siblings revolving furiously while holding smaller children, at full speed, on not very smooth grounds, till I felt giddy watching … But the only injury I witnessed showed up the attitude of the state while making obligatory provisions for poor children without any respect for children’s well being.

The report argues that children deserve the best possible start in life, early experience can cast a long shadow, and children are not to be held responsible for the circumstances into which they are born.

Pregnant women, women planning pregnancy and young children should limit their intake of shark (flake), broadbill, marlin and swordfish to no more than one serve per fortnight with no other fish to be consumed during that fortnight.