(vi) The use of the cruelest forms of corporal punishment in contravention of human rights norms and standards

The ban on sow stalls there continues the progress made to ameliorate the most extreme forms of animal confinement.

Malaria is one of Ethiopia's foremost health problems, ranking at the top of the list of communicable diseases.

LAHORE July was one of the roughest months in Pakistan s history.

But, despite these trumpeted results, the reality is much harsher.

The February elections will put those assumptions to their severest test in decades.

September 16, 2011, marked the 29th anniversary of the most grueling moment in the six decade long Arab Israeli conflict the massacre at Sabra and Chatila.

As a result, the deprivations they experience are often even harsher than those of indigenous men.

Gossip has harsher consequences for women who generally rely more heavily than men on social networks. Stigma may cause families to conceal an HIV positive diagnosis, causing considerable stress and depression within the family.

Vivian Fouad, coordinator of the National Program against FGM, says the practice will gradually vanish with increasing awareness and tougher penalties against perpetrators.

Ms. Rasheed (Palestine) stated that she represented a people that continued to be subjected to one of the most brutal forms of colonialism in modern history.

According to Zheng Guoguang, the Director of the China Meteorological Administration, Science and technology will answer the prayers of those living through the harshest drought in decades.

Solitary confinement in D Block was seen as the harshest punishment, and it was never used for more than 48 hours at a time.

The amendments also reclassified FGM from a misdemeanor (where offenders usually receive up to two years in prison) to a felony, which incurs tougher sentences and punishments.

Chahine made the toughest political movies, ending with his film Heya Fawda (It is Chaos), which exposed the Egyptian police, who don't care for justice, but have other internal interests.

The problem is that one is now seeing armed forces operating in climatic areas which may be more severe than their weapons have been tested to.

At tragedies, bull fights, and crucifixions hath he hitherto been happiest on earth and when he invented his hell, behold, that was his heaven on earth.

Unfortunately, however, we also know that there are still many millions of human beings who still live and die in the most extreme poverty.

The reporting State should consider categorizing honour killings as aggravated homicide to ensure that perpetrators received the maximum punishment.

Dan Goldberg, national editor of the Australian Jewish News from 2002 2007, put the case against the Conference in the strongest terms at New Matilda.

Orphans, whose number has increased sharply over the past quarter century as a result of wars, economic sanctions, and terrorism, are especially vulnerable to the cruelest type of physical and psychological violence.

Kumaraja) from whom he received the Dzogchen empowerment and teachings in the mountains, the uplands of Yartökyam at Samye where he was traveling from valley to valley with his students under the most difficult of circumstances.

The fact that the Saharan people preferred to live as free people in one of the most inhospitable places on earth rather than under Moroccan rule was a testament to the human spirit and the idea of freedom.

In this context, the Committee recommends that the State party introduce in its criminal law a provision that makes committing an offence with a racist motivation or aim an aggravating circumstance allowing for a more severe punishment.

Three quarters of all respondents to the OIOS questionnaires stressed that the most pressing challenge faced by UNMOs was caused by team members having different levels of military skills, training and experience.

This ground breaking regime is one of the toughest of its kind, containing very high penalties for Australians involved in sex offences against children under the age of 16 years while overseas.

This bacteria was discovered several years ago by a team of planetary biologists hoping to find clues to life on other planets by looking at one of the harshest conditions on ours.

Samuel Pisar, an Auschwitz survivor, said, and I'll quote him, The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man, when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

According to the complainant's counsel in Bangladesh, the responsible authorities acknowledged that he had been subjected to maltreatment but not to more severe forms of torture , and that sometimes a little force or torture was necessary to obtain the truth .

Nevertheless, the national consensus has shifted, shaking all assumptions about Israeli politics. The February elections will put those assumptions to their severest test in decades.

In the case of the latter, the situation had improved since the law had become significantly harsher in 2002, and the police and the media were cooperating to publicize the strict attitude of the courts in dealing with those who involved minors in prostitution or trafficking.

Mr. Cumberbatch (Cuba) stated that racial discrimination was one of the cruellest manifestations of the exploitation that some peoples had been subject to for centuries, and was now being perpetuated by the widening gap being between rich and poor created by neoliberal globalization.

What took place yesterday afternoon and this morning is in flagrant violation of Security Council resolution 425 (1978) and of international law and constitutes a threat to peace and security in the region. It requires the application of the utmost international pressure on Israel to put an end to such practices and to ensure respect for Lebanon's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.

Mr. Rodríguez (Liga Española Pro Derechos Humanos) said that it was intolerable, at a time when human rights were a priority on the international agenda, that nearly 200,000 Saharans still lived in the refugee camps in Tindouf, in one of the most inhospitable regions of the planet.

She writes The abuse of revolutionary Yemeni women in squares across Yemen, since the beginning of the uprising at the start of last year, is not something new for us. What is new now is that it comes from someone who introduces himself as a revolutionary and a defender and supporter of the revolution, and its squares, and marches, and of its men and women. This is harsher and more bitter.

The sentence was appealed and it was only today that Ismail was found guilty. And despite claims that the victims families are happy with the sentence, because they believe it s the harshest to have for a person in his position within such a corrupt system, many Egyptians still believe the verdict came very late, and was unjust when compared to the 1,200 Egyptians who drowned at sea.