Anecdotal evidence supports claims of increased harassment of women.
The report noted increased harassment of people who "looked Muslim," particularly women wearing head scarves, and a wave of attacks on Jews and synagogues.
Israel has increased harassment of nonviolent protesters in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem with nighttime raids and arrests of both leaders and participants, including children.
"With the increasing harassment of aid workers and the looting, there is no question that some sort of security force has to be put on the ground soon".
Kensington Palace wrote a strongly-worded letter to newspapers, regulatory bodies and the international media today urging them to stop increasing "harassment" of the child and royal family.
Sexual harassment of women on the street and in urban schools is on the increase, according to Bangladeshi NGO Brac, which in 2010 launched Mejnin, a project to tackle the increasing harassment of women and girls.
The report found that "there were no instances of increased harassment" as a result of lifting bans in any of the countries studied.
Now ChinaAid, a human rights group based in the United States, says it has evidence of increased harassment, including beatings and the confiscation of personal property.
"Beyond the denial of basic freedoms, this provision may deter transgender people from seeking mental health services for fear of receiving a diagnosis that would strip them of their right to drive, and leaves the door open for increased harassment, persecution, and discrimination of transgender people by Russian authorities".
The murder, and complaints of increased harassment, prompted a sweeping Pentagon review, which resulted in recommendations that were approved last summer by William S. Cohen, then the secretary of defense.
Sadly, however, the UMNO-led government has increased harassment, arrest, and detention of nearly all key pro-democracy activists and opposition leaders.
