This has created a huge pool of househusbands, or men who passed on the task of doing actual housework, managing the home, to other female members of the household. This has led to destabilization of more traditional gender role expectations.

Today, the European Commission has allocated €10 million from its humanitarian aid budget to reduce the impact of epidemics on vulnerable people in developing countries and to support emergency operations to address outbreaks of communicable diseases.

26. Is concerned that the number of reported so-called "honour killings" is increasing in Turkey, and calls on the Turkish authorities and civil society to intensify their efforts to prevent these killings, domestic violence and forced marriages; welcomes the increase in the number of shelters, but calls urgently for effective and sustainable policies on budgetary and staffing matters, and for support for women and their children after they leave the shelters; asks the Turkish government to combat the trafficking of women in close cooperation with the Member States;

The need for vigilance by all concerned parties, including trading partners, on the consequences of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the UK and a department in France is fully recognized.

Children growing up in homes where the primary experience is of powerlessness - before the landlord, before the eviction notice, before any efforts to have repairs done or conditions improved - learn quickly that they are of no account to the world.

That nudged the proportion of Canadians who spend at least 30% of their income on shelter and thus potentially face problems covering their housing costs to one in four households or almost 2.8 million households.