The phrase "abuse of vulnerable groups" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about social issues, human rights, or any context where the mistreatment of at-risk populations is being addressed.
Example: "The report highlighted the alarming rates of abuse of vulnerable groups in our society, calling for immediate action and policy changes."
Alternatives: "exploitation of at-risk populations" or "mistreatment of disadvantaged groups".
It constitutes UNICEF's response to the Millennium Declaration and its emphasis on the protection of vulnerable groups and issues related to violations of human rights and child rights as a result of violence, abuse, exploitation and discrimination.
Previous studies have suggested that stigmatisation of vulnerable groups and the criminalisation of drug use in the region exacerbated risky behaviour and increased vulnerability to police human rights abuses [ 4, 5, 54, 66].
It was a tenacious Times reporter, Andrew Norfolk, who shone much light on electoral fraud – leading to prosecutions – and it is no coincidence that Norfolk was also a leading light in exposing the sexual abuse of vulnerable girls by groups of men mostly from the Pakistani community, some of them taxi drivers in Rotherham and elsewhere.
This benign neglect approach would permit the abuse of vulnerable members of groups (the problem of internal minorities discussed below), tolerating "communities which bring up children unschooled and illiterate; which enforce arranged marriages; which deny conventional medical care to their members (including children); and which inflict cruel and 'ununsual' punishment" (Kukathas 2003, 134).
"For instance address the issue of police abuse against several vulnerable groups - migrants, people with disabilities, unmarried women, drugs users et cetera - and include information about abuse of LGBT people.
Talks between the administration and labor groups have stalled over more modest efforts to address abuse of vulnerable people — for example, negotiations to create a list of penalties for state workers who act inappropriately have dragged on for the past year.
This includes abuse by celebrities like Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris, as well as the systematic abuse of vulnerable girls in Derby, Rochdale, Oxford and other towns and cities".
The concept of community justice facilitation therefore was based on the premise that vulnerable groups, particularly children, fall victims of abuse in a number of ways.
The idea of shielding vulnerable groups is well intentioned.
Most of the adolescents selected for the programme are from vulnerable groups e.g. working adolescents, orphans, children from very poor families, and those who are victims and at risk of abuse, neglect, violence or in contact with the law.
