However, first generation Black African women seemed the most disempowered group and appeared particularly vulnerable to delays.
The UK's 300,000 Gypsies and Travellers are among the most socially excluded and politically disempowered groups in British society, concludes the TSRC report, Hearing the Voice of Gypsies and Travellers.
One of the most beneficial consequences of a pattern of capitalist development shaped by political democracy was a growing demand for human capital that helped members of previously disempowered groups compete effectively for economic success and political leadership.
The people who are most likely to do this are the most excluded, the most disempowered: those whose voices particularly need to be heard.
"You're talking about some of the most disempowered people in our society," said Randi Ettner, a clinical psychologist in Evanston, Ill., and a board member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
She involved thousands of people from all walks of life, rich and poor and everyone in between; providing them with creative opportunities to give back to the city's most disempowered and disadvantaged communities.
Lewis knew that his childhood in Sauk Centre had given him empathy for all sorts of disempowered groups -- he was teased and taunted for his odd habits and his appearance until he was well into his 20's.
Many researchers and advocates have argued that techniques like predictive policing don't so much see the future as entrench and justify longstanding practices of racial profiling in policing certain urban neighborhoods, aggressively targeting already disempowered groups.
Though the earthquake was promiscuously destructive, killing the good and the bad, the rich and the poor, those who still remain encamped in sprawling tent cities lashed by tropical rains in and around the capital now represent the lowest and most disempowered strata of Haitian society.
Also, there is no version of the site in Hindi, or any of the other local languages spoken by most disempowered Indians.
