Amnesty International says Fiji's thugs torture suspects, even kill them.

Melon pickers in Honduras ask people to boycott Fyffes melons because the company blacklists those that join a union.

The United Kingdom plans to sentence drivers to life in prison if they kill someone by driving while speeding or holding a phone, or while drunk, etc.

If the goal is to discourage drivers from doing those dangerous things, this approach is big on harshness but low on effectiveness. Only a tiny fraction of people that today drive speeding, holding a phone, or drunk, will cause actual harm and be punished for it. The rest tell themselves, "Nothing will go wrong", so they don't worry about what the penalty would be if something did go wrong.
The effective way to discourage those dangerous behaviors is to apply a small punishment more often. If 10% of the people who did one of these things on any given day were sentenced to one night in jail, almost all of them would soon learn not to do it any more. Even 1% might be enough, since everyone would know people who were caught.

The EU has a plan to cut energy use and stop subsidizing coal by 2030.

Clearly these officials do not understand the gravity of the problem. They should have eliminated coal subsidies 10 years ago, but since they didn't, they should eliminate the subsidies tomorrow.

The Tories have never tried to verify whether punishing unemployed people for every failure to carry out the job search dance really led to more of them in employment.

I'm not surprised that the Tories have not tried to measure the "effectiveness" of these punishments in achieving their supposed goals, because the goals don't make sense anyway, and I don't think the Tories were honest about their goals.

I think the Tories' real motive for these punishments is to demonize the unemployed and the disabled (often labeled as capable of working, through a carefully arranged system of excuses to disregard their medical evaluations) and to make it seem they don't deserve any help, which in the long term serves as an excuse for ceasing to help them. That will "save" money, making it possible to further cut taxes or increase welfare payments for the rich.

As for the non-rich unemployed and disabled, with no state help they won't live many more years, and the Tories will say, "Mission accomplished."

"The Tories are lower than vermin" — Aneurin Bevan.