41.   They will discuss what can be done to protect children and other vulnerable groups.

42.   Weeks of wrangling ended late yesterday when Western nations agreed to drop language specifically naming groups vulnerable to the disease.

43.   Women and children are the most vulnerable group in a society and their lives can be easily shaken by crises, including riot and war.

44.   Young people, Weeks said, represent the group most vulnerable to drugs.

45.   Hansenne particularly highlighted the impact of long-term unemployment on vulnerable social groups.

46.   A Tanzanian foreign ministry statement said the authorised foodstuffs were destined for the most vulnerable groups -- women, children and the elderly.

47.   But vulnerable Liberian groups in Ghana, such as the elderly, children and young mothers, may continue to receive free food assistance, he said.

48.   The region also wants vulnerable groups protected by having states set the minimum food entitlements of households and to provide basic staple food needs for the destitute.

49.   The WFP later continued to supply rice to vulnerable groups, including those at displaced camps and orphanages, but this policy has now changed.

50.   Those groups vulnerable to the impact of tough policies should be given help.