Sentence examples for harmful initiation from inspiring English sources

They too often face the threats of harmful initiation rites, non-consensual or forced sex, transactional sex, and early marriage.

UNICEF concerned over harmful initiation practices 10 July 2013 - UNICEF expressed concern today over the reported deaths of several children as a result of harmful practices, including unsafe male circumcision, during recent initiation ceremonies.

The girls lobbied 60 village chiefs to ratify and enact by-laws that protect adolescent girls from early marriage and harmful sexual initiation practices.

They suggest that intergenerational transmission of 'habitus', or way of life, combines with 'doubling' or copying others in the same social group, and the need for 'distinction' from other groups, to explain this continued initiation of harmful behaviours.

It is not continents or colours that emigrate but rather people and their cultures, in recent years a visible distortion has been produced in the phenomena associated with gender and immigration, especially in the case of Sub-Saharan women, their daughters and the harmful traditional practices of initiation involving mutilation of female genitals.

Integrating information technology into geriatric services (gero-informatics) might allow reduction of the time to implementation of geriatric recommendations and prevent the initiation of potentially harmful medications and procedures during the critical first 48 hours of hospitalization.

The identification of a virus as a responsible agent for arthritis can limit unnecessary diagnostic work-up and prevent the initiation of a potentially harmful chronic immunosuppressive therapy.

Indication that very early initiation of RRT may be harmful was demonstrated by a prospective randomised trial on patients with severe sepsis [ 78].

Perception of risks and the harmful effects of tobacco smoking could influence the initiation of smoking.

Early and unprotected sexual initiation can trigger a succession of harmful physical, emotional, and social outcomes, especially for girls [ 2].

Survey findings seriously suggest that some messages conveyed to teens can indeed be harmful as these are associated with earlier sexual initiation.