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Gallows trap door, Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO — The European Union has called on Japan to abolish the death penalty, saying “it is a key priority of our external human rights policy” to work towards its universal elimination to protect human dignity.“As friends, we have an obligation
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NCRI - This morning, December 22, a prisoner was hanged in public in the city of Ilam – Western Iran.The public execution was carried out this morning, in the city center of Ilam in the presence of chief Justice, the public prosecutor, criminal
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Fewer death sentences were handed down in the US this year than at any time in the last four decades, a study finds.Only 30 such penalties were imposed in 2016, the lowest since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976 after a four-year hiatus.Five states, Georgia, Texas20
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Require all public bodies to take account of socio-economic disadvantage when making policy decisions.The Equality Trust co-ordinated the following letter with 22 other organisations and individuals calling for the socio-economic duty on public bodies, contained within section 1 of the Equality20
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Ten nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex activity. Only a few actually impose the death sentence. Exactly how many is a difficult question.Another attempt to remove the United Nations expert on LGBT rights has been defeated.The United19
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Contemporary conceptions of equality and sexuality are not compatible with women’s subordination to male privileges.In January 2017, the 2nd World Congress against the sexual exploitation of women and girls will take place, in New Delhi, from 29 January to 31 January.Under the title “Last
Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Friday signed death warrants of another 13 'hardcore terrorists' who were found guilty of being behind a series of terrorist attacks, including those on Charsadda's Bacha Khan University, Rawalpindi's Parade Lane Mosque and the Marriot Hotel in Islamabad.The18
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The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday ruled the death sentences of 3 state inmates are constitutional and don't conflict with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down Florida's similar death penalty sentencing scheme.The U.S. Supreme Court had vacated the sentences of Alabama death18
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Philippine President Duterte: "Looking for a confrontation so I could kill."Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte affirmed on Friday that he shot dead three people as mayor, dismissing any uncertainty and displaying no remorse. “I don’t really know how many bullets from
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President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs in the streets of ManilaRepresentative Teddy Brawner Baguilat of the Lone District here said the reimposition of the death penalty is "a backward step without moral necessity," and urged the public to join the call
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The 12 men on Delaware’s death row will not be executed. Instead, they’ll get life in prison without the possibility of parole.The Delaware Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state cannot go through with executing those on death row after they previously struck down the state’s
Dylann Roof Found Guilty in Charleston Church MassacreCHARLESTON, S.C. — Dylann S. Roof, a self-radicalized young white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners last year when he opened fire during a long-planned assault on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, was found guilty by21
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The government announced plans last year to scrap the NHS bursary for student midwives and nurses.Applications for midwifery, nursing degrees and other allied health university courses have fallen by almost a quarter in England.Research conducted by the higher educational body Universities UK
Arizona has agreed to settle part of a lawsuit by promising it won't again use the sedative midazolam as part of a three-drug combination while carrying out the death penalty.The state didn't acknowledge any liability in settling the claim that the use of midazolam doesn't ensure that inmates20
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Be part of a wave of international protest.Join the march in Central London being held in solidarity with the ‘Women’s March on Washington’ on 21 January 2017.Or the others being organised around the world.The first day of Donald Trump’s US Presidency will be 21 January 2017, and this march20
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Ronald PhillipsExecution of Ronald Phillips dependent on outcome of his legal challenge over law shielding details about drugs, as state moves to new three-drug combinationA federal judge issued a stay on Monday in the planned January execution of an Ohio death row inmate and for the next two19
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Former leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult Shoko AsaharaTOKYO — A former senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult who is on death row has described the founder and “guru” he once revered, Shoko Asahara, as a “criminal” in a recently published memoir.
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has executed at least 153 people this year, nearing last year's record high of 158, according to figures collated by human rights organization Reprieve.Among those executed this year were at least 4 juveniles who were killed as part
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Cairo, EgyptEgyptian authorities executed a death sentence against Abel Habara, the leader of the ISIS-affiliated Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) group, for his role in the "2nd Rafah Massacre" that killed 25 soldiers in an ambush in North Sinai in August 2013.Habara was executed after Egyptian17
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Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Ben Quilty in Kerobokan prison's art workshopOn November 10, 2012, three days after Julia Gillard flew to Bali to chair a democracy forum with her Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Mary Farrow went on Facebook to send a
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Nebraska's death chamberLINCOLN — Nebraska’s top prison official has obtained a new license to import foreign-made death penalty drugs but so far has taken no steps to use it.The federal Drug Enforcement Administration issued the importer’s license to Scott Frakes, director of the State Department15
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Men have a role to play in ending FGM, but they don’t play it.The Leeds based Black Health Initiative warned recently that midwives from Africa are now being flown into the UK to carry out the illegal practice and girls are being taken to female genital mutilation (FGM) “parties” in cities in15
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A Chinese police officer lights a prisoner's lastcigarette, moments before his execution.The executions of Nie Shubin and Jia Jinglong occurred more than 20 years apart, yet the Chinese authorities have used the plight of both men to send starkly
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Looking at how BREXIT has altered the landscape for women’s rights.In August, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) met with British members to discuss the way forward after the BREXIT vote, and how to unite in fighting for the Europe we want – based on well-being, equality, social justice.And a21
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San Quentin Prison's death rowThe California Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a voter-approved measure intended to speed up the appeals process for the state's death row inmates to give it time to consider a lawsuit challenging the measure.In a one-page decision, the court stayed the20
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Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir is pictured in a courtroom inNouadhibou, Mauritania, in April in a picture supplied by his sister. Mohamed Ould Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir awaits the final verdict for a blog seen as critical of Mauritania's caste system.In the dusty Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott19
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Several key topics are conspicuously absent from sex and relationships education.It is 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act partially decriminalised male homosexual acts and started what has been a long and slow journey towards equality on its way.Next year’s LGBT History Month theme19
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Screenshot from "Return to Paradise" by Joseph Ruben, 1998Death by firing squad, hanging or lethal injection are the possible fates of an expanding number of Australians who could face execution for drug smuggling in Asian countries. Last year, the Department
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On Monday, 19 December 2016, in New York, the 193 member nations of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will vote on the resolution "Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty".Singapore has in the past shown little interest in human rights, and the government has always maintained broad18
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsSix prisoners were executed for drug charges in Karaj (west of Tehran) Thursday morning Dcember 15.According to Iran Human Rights (IHR) sources, 5 of the prisoners were hanged in the Central Prison of Karaj. The prisoners are identified as Behzad Lazemi16
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Protect women’s access to all contraception options.The UK government has cut public health budgets by a whopping £800m over six years.One shocking result of this is that some women no longer have access to the full array of contraception options.Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)16
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Maria Kristina Sergio (R) and Julius Lacanilao, the recruiters of M. J. Veloso Maria Kristina Sergio’s travel records revealed that she went abroad five times in 2008, 14 times in 2009, nine times in 2010 and twice in
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We oppose any religious body – whether presided over by men or women – that seeks to rule over us.Over 300 abused women, mostly of Muslim and other minority faiths, have issued a statement announcing their objections to the use of parallel legal systems based on fundamentalist religious codes15
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Duterte risks impeachment after he admitted "personally" killing criminals.Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte risks impeachment after he admitted "personally" killing criminals when he was the mayor of Davao City, said two Philippine senators.The firebrand leader boasted to business leaders on