Many observers argue that Russians are not having enough children because life is so harsh.

In response to the severe conditions, there was resistance among the populace.

The penalties for Australia's child sex tourism are very high, reflecting the seriousness with which the Australian Government regards such offences.

Maiming of animals by their owner falls under the Cruelty to Animals Acts.

He was strongly opposed to any kind of cruelty to animals, including setting traps.

Conditions in Gaza are harsh and the population does suffer.

But punishment could be harsh.

The simple fact is that humanity faces a stark choice.

As French cities have burned, other countries have been very severe in judging France.

Maybe that is too harsh an assessment of Africa s nascent democracies.

Melting ice caps, rising sea levels and extreme weather patterns aren't the only potential consequences of climate change.

In those circumstances, it is harsh to say to a couple that they cannot have their own genetic child at all.

Try to imagine strictly by invitation and there's a small percentage gaining entry when they pass ah lil kakadang for them hungry officers.

Calling this a Ponzi scheme might be too harsh. But few financial professionals have been fooled.

Indeed, Bahraini security forces have been ruthless in their attacks against demonstrators, killing six.

How has this come to pass? Why have the hopes of Gorbachev s glasnost been so cruelly snuffed out?

NEW DELHI April might be the cruelest month, but, for India s major political parties this year, March was fairly brutal.

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne insists that his country s fiscal trajectory is dangerously unsustainable, and he has proposed draconian cuts.

With so many people in Iraq suffering so much in so many ways, it may seem callous to discuss the economic costs.

The wanton cruelty there is all too clearly symptomatic of a systemic failure.

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This inter state rivalry at times bordering on acrimony is what makes the politics of European integration difficult.

Everything we get from whales can be obtained without cruelty elsewhere.

Granted, the term sounds archaic but the Torah is the first systematic legislation that forbids cruelty to animals and mandates that they be treated with consideration and respect.

Elimination of violence against children

Progressive elimination of child labour

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Children get an individualized program.

While much attention was focused on orphaned children, a much larger group of children was affected, including those who were infected.

This revolution will be tremendously generous to those countries that embrace it and utterly indifferent, even cruel, to those that ignore it or let it pass by.

Over the years, Puerto Rican political prisoners too had also suffered torture, including solitary confinement, pressure to renounce their political convictions and various forms of hardship.

Cattle herding allowed nomads to create livelihoods in an increasingly unpredictable and challenging environment, characterized by an arid climate and scarce resources.

But what may be desirable under extreme conditions for a single country can be highly detrimental to the world economy.

Two women's rights organizations, the 'Women's Initiative Against Debt and Austerity Measures' and the 'Independent Women's Movement', have started to raise awareness of these incidents

The common man, rooted in the real world, supposedly knows better uncompromising toughness, the hard line, is the only way to get results.

Santos could, therefore, have been tempted to choose the Sri Lanka way a ruthless military onslaught to defeat the insurgents, at the price of major human rights violations and the destruction of civilian communities.

In emergencies, immediate protection efforts continue to focus on unaccompanied and separated children, and where necessary on child soldiers, in line with the CCCs.

Sobule The Old Testament God can be so petty. Sweeney Don't get me started on that.

American society has become increasingly harsh, where the richest Americans buy their way to political power, and the poor are abandoned to their fate.

While the Western powers have embraced ever harsher sanctions, Russia and China view Iran as a tool in their global competition with the US.

NEW YORK China has been widely criticized for its harsh treatment of almost any form of political dissent in Tibet.

It operates both passively and actively in Palestinian culture, demanding stubbornness and tolerating ruthlessness, violence, and duplicity.

That cooperation transcends nationality, race, ethnicity and religion, for this is a tragedy that is felt around the world, and providing for those who have been most savagely affected by it is the responsibility of all.

Over the years, organizations of the system have scored major successes in immunizing children and reducing child mortality.

And so, the question is If there's so much non zero sumness, why has the world not yet been suffused in love, peace, and understanding?