culturally legitimised violence such as honour killings and genital mutilation of girls international trafficking in women sexual violence, forced pregnancies and forced abortions, systematic violence with serious physical and or mental consequences.

By censoring the media, discrediting moderate opposition, and provoking popular discontent, Putin is playing with fire.

These include domestic violence, sexual violence, sexual harassment, sexual abuse of children, trafficking in women, and female genital mutilation.

Deliberately populist media efforts have succeeded in mischaracterizing security problems as well as the victims of insecurityy.

There can be no doubt that one of the aims of terrorists is to weaken and distort even the most elementary of the universal values adopted by States and their peoples.

Female genital mutilation is a subject that is regularly raised in discussions with countries where it takes place.

That document also banned all physical and psychological violence, mutilation, early or forced marriage and sexual harassment.

Speakers underlined the success in girls' enrolment, and in the fight against child labour and trafficking and female genital mutilation.

Real, non discriminatory access to markets is needed, while unnecessary and hidden trade barriers and distortion must be eliminated, in accordance with the principles contained in the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries.

What I've just shown you are examples of the very simple and straightforward ways that journalists and food supplement pill peddlers and naturopaths can distort evidence for their own purposes.

They are falling back on the same facile, prefabricated responses that Qaddafi used to demonize his domestic and international opponents for four decades.

Indeed, by using the West to launder their dirty money, Putin and his cohorts have, in a way, avenged the Soviet Union s collapse by undermining the West s principles and discrediting liberal democracy in the eyes of the Russian population.

Eight months later, a military committee investigating the case concluded that the plan was, indeed, drafted to damage and discredit the AKP and government.

As already emphasized in previous reports of the Special Committee, Israeli practices tended to destroy the Arab cultural identity of Syrian citizens in the occupied Golan and distort history and geography.

The AIV discussed in general terms the legal aspects of the problem of violence against women and supervision of compliance with standards relating to honour killings, reproductive rights and genital mutilation.

(g) The violation of the rights of women, including discrimination against women and girls, the harassment of women by security forces and the serious human rights abuses, such as killings, rape, abduction and female genital mutilation

On previous visits, we had heard reports of atrocities committed by RUF rebels, including amputations, rapes, and mutilations of civilians in the countryside.

Norway is deeply concerned about the continuous reports of the killing and maiming of children, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, as well as rape and other forms of sexual violence against children in conflict situations.

Or perhaps the weight of Holocaust remembrance has blinded Israel s leaders and distorted their thinking in ways that, at the time the State of Israel was created, the Holocaust itself almost miraculously did not.

Israel s survival and right to self defense now has to be supported internationally, and the slander and demonization of recent years should come to an end.

Batti told the privately owned radio station MosaiqueFM that he was interrogated by his school administration on 5 October, which accused him of engaging in a smear and distortion campaign against it. Speaking to the radio station, he clarified his intention

Moreover, some harmful practices such as widowhood rights and female genital mutilation had been criminalized under the criminal code, while a parliamentary committee on gender had been established and a national gender policy developed.

Corporate tax expenditures narrow the base, raise the cost of tax compliance, and distort decisions about investment projects, how to finance them, what form of business organization to adopt, and where to produce.

MICS in 2005 2006 will collect data on child labour, birth registration, FGM C, child marriage, prevalence of orphans, child discipline and childhood disability.

By censoring the media, discrediting moderate opposition, and provoking popular discontent, Putin is playing with fire. It is impossible to predict when Russia will detonate, but the system s fissures are undeniable and growing.

Staff competency, morale and levels as well as a slew of health policies and legislation all have to be addressed. In addition the promotion of voodoo medicine and demonisation of western science is now deeply embedded in the national psyche.

Libya s new leaders suffer from something worse than foot dragging. They are falling back on the same facile, prefabricated responses that Qaddafi used to demonize his domestic and international opponents for four decades.

And the fact that they did not produce substandtial architecture, because the climate is not suited to great stone fortresses, this enabled them to be, shall we say, slandered, vilified for being barbarians, when in fact modern anthropology has revealed just how delicate and ornate the fabric of their artistry, their myths and their symbols truly is.

He then addressed the issue of the rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which had been responsible for acts of terrorism against the people of northern Uganda and various atrocities including abduction, maiming, sexual abuse and murder, committed in particular against women and children.

Twenty two years ago, when Anita Hill publicly accused then US Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, it was she, the alleged victim, who was scrutinized and smeared as a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty.

Gender based discrimination, female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage, pre birth gender selection and female infanticide, sexual abuse and exploitation, honour crimes and other harmful practices against women remain key concerns for young people.

We have to acknowledge that we have a problem here in our culture and way of thinking, and that the occupation has sown fear in us, to the point that we can not express ourselves through culture but have started destroying ourselves and reviling whatever is beautiful...

For five years, the Israeli occupation forces had been guilty of systematic war crimes and State terrorism against Arab civilians in those territories, using sophisticated weapons and fighter planes and killing some 4,000 persons, including children, women and elderly people, and maiming tens of thousands more.

The truth is that the BDS movement is nothing more than a sinister caricature of the anti totalitarian and anti apartheid struggles. It is a campaign whose instigators have no aim other than to discriminate against, delegitimize, and vilify an Israel that in their mind never stopped wearing its yellow star.

Cynical political tacticians manipulated popular opinion through propaganda, through what posed as a free press, and through targeted political hate speech to unite in carrying out a massive miscarriage of justice, demonizing a religious minority for political gain.

According to one news article by South Korea's Hankook Newspaper, the court's recent decision was criticized even by moderate conservatives in South Korea for failing to provide enough explanation of on what grounds the books were labeled as troublesome, and ignoring potential profit losses and personal damage of reputations.

The report paid specific attention to children's rights in general, and girls in particular, with openness to Islamic culture, while protecting such rights as education for boys and girls and protection against child marriage and FGM C.

Mr. Uras (Turkey) said that he was not surprised by the statement of the Greek Cypriot speaker or that of the representative of Greece but felt obliged to respond to the accusations and distortions contained in the latter's statement, which, moreover, did not take into account recent developments and the realities of the situation on the island.