China's massive state-run oil company is, in many ways, responsible for the horrifying human rights violations in Sudan and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa – as well as the UN's sluggish response.
"In the 21st century, customers don't want to buy crackers and cookies that are responsible for pushing the world's last wild orangutans to extinction and for horrifying child labor violations," said Lindsey Allen, the executive director of Rainforest Action Network in a release.
Not long ago, conservatives would have been horrified at wholesale violations of the norms and traditions of our political system, and would have been appalled by a president who showed overt contempt for the separation of powers.
The loss of life is all the more horrifying because most safety violations are obvious — as is the need to correct them.
It's easy to be detached from the kind of violations that horrify us when they take place abroad; it's much harder to have a genuine appreciation of what the right not to be tortured means, for example, if you have never lost it.
Horrifying accounts of child rights violations emerge from survivors of violence in north-western Iraq DOHUK, Iraq, 20 August 2014 – Testimonies gathered from civilians who fled the recent offensive by armed groups in the Sinjar district of north-western Iraq have revealed appalling accounts of killing, abduction and sexual violence perpetrated against women and children, according to UNICEF.
We are horrified by the erosion of our democracy by the administration -- the lies, the violations of law and the Constitution, the secrecy and, worst of all, the torture in our name.
The ambiguity at the heart of the piece – does Lucretia secretly desire Tarquinius? – is roundly dismissed by Shaw, her delicately vulnerable Lucretia (the beautifully dark-toned mezzo Claudia Huckle) horrified and disgusted at her violation.
It's horrifying, horrifying".
