In 2014 the Commission will launch EU-wide awareness-raising activities targeting specific vulnerable groups, such as women and children at risk, domestic workers, Roma communities, undocumented workers and situations such as major sporting events, using the home affairs funding programme.

Having regard to Articles 137(1)(c) and 141 of the EC Treaty and the principle of equal treatment (Articles 2, 3 and 13 of the EC Treaty ) and the secondary legislation based on this, in particular Council Directive 75/117/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the application of the principle of equal pay for men and women ; Council Directive 92/85/EEC on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health at work of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding ; Council Directive 96/97/EC amending Directive 86/378/EEC on the implementation of the principle of equal treatment for men and women in occupational ...[+++]social security schemes ; and Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast) .

One of the things I was taught early on by a very sage woman social worker, who had dedicated her whole life to women and children and changing conditions, was that if you're not a social advocate as a social worker, then all you're going to do is deal with one problem after the next, one file and then another file, and you won't change the lives of those women.

Some of the youth activities include a homework club, summer camp, teen dances, and the youth volunteer corps; and our social worker facilitates therapeutic groups in cooperation with professionals in St. John's. I have ten years experience in the settlement field, and as I've mentioned, I am the settlement services coordinator for the association.

The Commission attaches the greatest importance to all measures designed to protect the health and safety of workers, and notably certain groups of particularly vulnerable workers such as is clearly the case of pregnant workers and workers who have recently given birth or are breastfeeding - all the more so because the risks to which they may be exposed are liable to damage not only their own health but also that of their unborn or newborn children, given that there is a very close physiological and indeed emotional link between mother and child.

Add to this the stress of normal family life, such as typical teenage issues, impacted by the need to engage in a new peer group due to postings and the results of frequent parental absences, as well as stressful reunions, caregiver burnout, and missed employment opportunities, as l have seen in my position as a social service worker.