Ministers insist that vulnerable groups need all the help they can get, whether they want it or not.

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The expected result is to improve policies and ensure they integrate the needs of women and youth, both vulnerable groups.

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These vulnerable groups are disproportionately represented in public housing, they point out, and may be at increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome, asthma, respiratory infections, heart attacks, and cancer.

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This event will concentrate on policies and laws affecting these two vulnerable groups in order to improve the policies and make sure that they take their needs into account.

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The deepest conundrum is what makes groups of people, defined by religion, class, race or any other attribute, so vulnerable to political manipulation that they can be easily persuaded to commit diabolical acts against other groups.

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Ricardo Guedes of Sensus, a polling organisation, says that focus groups suggest that voters identify Mr Serra with a government which they blame for the country's vulnerable finances.

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