Sami was being bullied.

Layla was bullied in class.

Sami is being picked on for being Muslim.

Sami was bullied in his old school.

Many of them are harassed and discriminated against.

Local Muslim leaders complain that they are still harassed.

14. Other examples of persons recently subjected to harassment follow

I can't make something this small a reason to bother with her again.

But, because of their non attendance, these children have been branded as non Christians and subjected to harassment and disparagement.

Their case is an important milestone in the ongoing effort to tackle sexual harassment in Pakistan.

Its personnel is harassed and attacked. There is also a shortage and lack of basic equipment.

Civilians have on occasion been harassed, their furniture smashed and belongings ransacked during searches for wanted persons.

But in some countries, citizens and journalists who are trying to expose stories like this have been harassed and arrested and some have even risked their lives to do so.

The percentage of domestic female workers who allege sexual harassment is even higher (91 ).

The highly volatile environment continues to restrict access to those communities, which remain vulnerable to harassment, exploitation and extortion.

Benin had no legal text that defined sexual harassment in the workplace, although mention was made of it in the draft Criminal Code. Did Benin in fact have a clear definition of workplace sexual harassment, and was it developing any policies to deal with it?

Furthermore, heads of schools and other academic institutes have to protect and help harassed students as quickly as possible.

(d) The systematic and consistent harassment and intimidation of members of the National League for Democracy by members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association

(g) Serious constraints on, and harassment and detention of, the members of non governmental organizations and civil society, including human rights defenders

Countries that want to follow their own path of social development are subjected to harassment and labelling, and are proclaimed to be rogue States .

Yet UNPROFOR members are often exposed to physical danger, and many have been harassed, threatened and abused by both Croatian and Serb armed elements.

Where conversion is not actually prohibited by law, converts can be harassed or threatened by State and religious officials.

Today in Niger, no one is molested because of his philosophical or religious ideas since the establishment of the Third Republic, freedom of the press is complete and is guaranteed by the Constitution.

While the United Nations has a zero tolerance sexual harassment policy in place, the Secretary General is in the process of formulating a new, broader policy to encompass other forms of harassment.

The State party finds it highly improbable that a person wanted by the police for a capital offence could have a new passport issued and take off from Karachi airport without incident.

His conclusion was amongst others that both children and parents (and in all likelihood the school) experience conflicts of loyalty, pressure to conform and acquiesce to the norm, and for some of the children bullying and a feeling of helplessness.

Mr. Sidotti stressed the need for victims and human rights advocates to have unhindered access to the mandate holders during country visits free from any harassment, intimidation or reprisal.

Following the destruction of these mosques, many members of the remaining Muslim population in Banja Luka became objects of harassment from Serbian extremists, threatening them with expulsion if they do not leave voluntarily.

According to a survey, 21 per cent of the women in France had been victims or witnesses of sexual harassment, representing 19 per cent of all working women.

(d) To cease the ongoing harassment of the National League for Democracy and other political parties and allow the reopening of the offices of the National League for Democracy throughout the country

In Palestine, children were harassed by Israeli soldiers, and were deprived of adequate housing, regular schooling and sufficient health care, in violation of international instruments on the rights of the child.

It states that 58 percent of nurses and doctors interviewed admitted being sexually harassed, usually at the hands of other doctors, nurses, attendants, patients and visitors.

Civilians, including members of registered political parties and pro democracy activists, continue to be harassed, arrested, tried and sentenced to prison for the peaceful exercise of basic civil and political rights and freedoms.

It contends that far from being harassed and persecuted, the author owed both his high functions in the civil service of Equatorial Guinea and his promotions to President Obiang himself, and that he left his functions of his own free will.

As concerns the freedom of expression, it has been reported that the journalists covering the settlers apos unrest in the territories were subjected to quot continued harassment quot by the IDF.

Indeed, the State party argues, the fact that the complainant had been prepared to serve as President of the Muslim Students Federation at his faculty showed beyond any doubt that he was not all worried about being disturbed or threatened.

16. In many other cases throughout the country, persons have been harassed and often beaten simply for having written or uttered slogans, for having in their possession photographs of President Aristide, or for listening to foreign radio broadcasts.

Now that Manila has laid the groundwork, many Vietnamese civil society organizations are calling for the government to strengthen its position and bring its own case against China, and to vigorously protect Vietnamese fishermen who have faced harassment at sea.

4.4 Other evidence also challenged the notion that the complainant had been persecuted by the authorities or was wanted for blasphemy between January and July 1999, according to the State party, the complainant lived undisturbed at his family's second home in Johannabad, some 20 kilometres from Lahore.

The specific list of alleged vandalism to various Cuban Mission automobiles contained in one of the notes verbales showed no evidence of any correlation or campaign of harassment.

It is too convenient when unidentified strongmen beat and harass activists who question Party rule, and it is too easy for officials to blame an out of control criminal society when international media start asking questions.

An eventual risk of harassment on account of his political activities would therefore only be of a local character, and he could avoid harassment by moving within the country, as he did when he was charged with murder in 1995.

According to West Bank Command Maj. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, the soldiers were required to perform the tasks of policemen such as escorting the settlers apos children. They were also regularly harassed, insulted and offended by a minority of extremist settlers. (Ha apos aretz, Jerusalem Post, 4 August 1994)

Any persons found guilty of extorting a confession by torture or having subjected a prisoner to corporal punishment, ill treatment, harassment or humiliation were liable to prison sentences varying according to the gravity of the offence and the extent of the ill treatment and even to the death sentence in the most serious cases.

11. The Special Rapporteur continued to receive information concerning incidents involving persons subjected to harassment, quot acts of repudiation quot on the part of so called quot rapid response brigades quot , temporary detention, loss of employment or other reprisals by the security apparatus, and for ideological reasons.