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With a weak central government facing brutal guerrilla forces, many rural Congolese are forced to survive in a dangerous and cruel environment.
According to Paul Shapiro, the US Humane Society’s vice president for farm animal protection, the move signals the beginning of the end for the cruel battery cages that have, until now, dominated America’s egg industry.
So why do governments persist in using this cruel but ineffective strategy?
Only a truly regional initiative can ensure a lasting end to the cruel and senseless Thirty Years War that has ravaged Afghanistan and frustrated South Asia’s hopes for peaceful development.
Cost-benefit analysis sounds superficially cold or perhaps even cruel.
Syria is drowning in a bloody, cruel, and pointless conflict.
Ustadz So had taught them that Thai rule over this historically Malay region was illegitimate, that Thai officials were cruel and heartless, and that the time had come for the Muslim population to rise up and expel the Buddhist infidels.
Consistent with that finding, an historic ballot initiative in California to ban cruel forms of animal confinement on factory farms, including the battery cage system of keeping hens, is also showing strong support.
Throughout the nineteenth century, Catholicism’s public role bred cruel fights between supporters of the clergy and their opponents, reflecting a more fundamental conflict between supporters of the Republic and advocates of a return to the old order.
But, he says, that outcome would mean further violence: “The compensation for suffered harm invariably brings new harm, often more cruel than what came before.”
Taiwan's Democratic Labor PainsYoung democracies can be cruel: their voters are often as unforgiving as political opponents.
At the same time, US troops in Uganda are subject to legal limits – at a minimum, the Geneva Conventions, whose most important norms include the prohibition of murder, torture, and cruel treatment.
In the cruel calculus of disasters, those least responsible for causing climate change will suffer first and worst from its inevitable effects.
Swapping one form of authoritarianism for another seems a cruel letdown after seven months of NATO airstrikes in the name of democracy.
Ayman, his siblings, and all Gaza’s children are finding their lives diminished each day – a cruel, slow suffocation of their spirit and their dreams.
But capitalism is also cruel.
And while it was more identified with the Sunni minority than with the Shia majority, it endured for decades as a vehicle for national unity, albeit a cruel and cynical one.
Tying a person to a board and bringing him to the point of drowning, over and over, or forcing a prisoner – stripped naked and covered in his own excrement – to stand with his hands shackled to the ceiling for days, until his legs swell to twice their normal size, may not have constituted torture in memos prepared by government lawyers, but such practices are surely cruel, inhuman, and degrading.
And, as is often the case with unwanted occupations, Morocco has asserted its territorial claim through cruel repression, the systematic denial of basic human rights, and attempts to force demographic change – all while plundering Western Sahara’s natural resources.
Beyond the cruel policies that it enables, it risks emboldening governments like those in China and Russia, as it makes them seem reasonable, even reliable.
Some Syrians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, pointing to Baghdad in 2005, argue that the one thing worse than a cruel dictator is a sectarian civil war.
We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely – or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.
Doing so is cruel and inhumane, and it violates the spirit of all refugee, human rights, and immigration laws.
Accurate body counts from the cruel regimes presiding over Burma, Afghanistan and the Congo remain unavailable but are certainly huge.
Rushdie a la RusseJune will be a cruel month in Russia's courts.
Feeling constrained in their capacity to manage the massive economic challenges they faced, countries began to turn on Europe, with anti-EU campaigners, particularly in smaller countries like Greece, claiming that they had faced unfair, even cruel, treatment.
People just like me – women fleeing a brutal dictatorship, only to be trafficked to a cruel one – are leading lives of perpetual victimization, utterly powerless.
Their tragic deaths have done nothing to slow the human tide, which is swelling by the week, as smugglers on the coast become increasingly brazen and cruel.
North Korea is perhaps the most noxious regime in the world today, and one can only hope that its cruel government collapses sometime soon.
Where money rules, some citizens become depressed and apathetic, others become cruel and heartless, and children learn aggressive behavior.
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