This is not fear mongering.

Bullying is a disease. Prejudice is a disease. Violence is a disease.

'Sexual harassment and bullying has no gender'

These groups frequently challenge law and order through intimidation, extortion, and violence.

It is debatable whether governments should ever frighten their citizens by painting the horror scenario of inevitable attack.

However, central government authorities have done little to halt intimidation of Linyi s villagers.

Other factors causing displacement include operations of the multinational force itself, crime, the lack of basic services, and desperate poverty.

It s no use complaining about Russia s strategic bullying when we are not being strategic ourselves. The West can t change Russia s behavior with persuasion, so it must try to use its leverage make the Nabucco pipeline bypassing Russia a reality, build LNG terminals, include energy in Europe s Common Foreign and Security Policy, diversify supply, and screen companies seeking capital in London s stock exchange more carefully.

It s no use complaining about Russia s strategic bullying when we are not being strategic ourselves.

That said, it would be dangerously naïve to believe that the exercise of power and the capacity to intimidate are unnecessary.

They are doing this by the use of terrorism and by brutal intimidation of the civilian population and in defiance of the expressed and plain will of the international community.

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

Since 2007, many of the cartels victims have been decapitated a tactic clearly aimed at intimidating their enemies.

(g) To ensure free exercise of political opposition and to prevent intimidation and repression of political opponents and their families

A family of yobs left their council house with 50,000 worth of damage after they were evicted for terrorising their neighbours.

Such intimidation not only threatens the affected journalists, it can also harm free expression and have a chilling effect on media freedom.

This kind of stifling and intimidation will only deprive Iranians of the cultural and artistic vitality that is rightfully theirs and further alienate the country s youth.

Sexual harassment and bullying has no gender...Just as there is no denying that there are many battered men, raped women, and incest victims.

(c) The repression faced by any kind of opposition, in particular the harassment and intimidation of and threats against Iraqi opponents living abroad and members of their families

(c) The repression faced by any kind of opposition, in particular the harassment and intimidation of and threats against Iraqi opponents living abroad and members of their families

1. Condemns all forms of torture, including through intimidation, as described in article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

1. Condemns all forms of torture, including through intimidation, as described in article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

After all, Ukraine is not the only country under the gun, as Putin s recent threats to protect Russian citizens in Kazakhstan, not to mention his intimidation of the Baltic states, attest.

14. Stresses the importance of strengthening the free and pluralistic media, and deplores actions that seek to intimidate or restrict the freedom of the media

This ( your name is in our computer ) is just yet another instance of what they do best bullying disguised as bureaucratic procedure, as thought out policy.

It harms the whole education system fear and intimidation do not provide a conducive learning environment and puts an extra burden upon school districts and administrators who are trying to teach.

Security services and guerilla groups use off book methods such intimidation, violence, arson attacks, forced disappearance, disappearance without trace and murder against people who speak out against those in power.

China has added to regional tensions with a foreign policy including advancing territorial claims in the East and South China Seas that would be described diplomatically as assertive, and more bluntly as bullying.

From the fatwa on Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses to the killing of a nun in Somalia in response to Pope Benedict s Regensburg lecture and the Berlin Opera s cancellation of a performance of Mozart s Idomeneo , with its severed heads of religious founders, including Muhammad, we have seen violence and intimidation used to defend a particular religion s taboos.

1. Condemns all forms of torture, including through intimidation, as described in article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Resolution 39 46, annex.

1. Condemns all forms of torture, including through intimidation, as described in article 1 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Resolution 39 46, annex.

The former communities secretary, now the anti corruption tsar, said the intimidation of voters on religious grounds was so bad that police should be allowed to put cordons outside polling stations to protect frightened voters.

Despite the threats and intimidation, families of the Paniai shooting victims carried out one last symbolic act of defiance burying one victim's body on land just opposite the police and military station.

Finally, while one can understand a former superpower s temptation to seize its opportunity to return to a muscular foreign policy, Russia s bullying in the energy area is destroying trust and undercutting Russia s soft power in other countries.

In recent months, you have devoted attention in your blog and elsewhere to the potentially dangerous influence the Internet can have on young people, citing violent trends that promote bullying and even murder.