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Call for the UK government to act on the eleven recommendations of UN report.
The UK government has been found guilty of ‘grave and systematic violations of the rights of disabled people as a direct result of austerity policies introduced into welfare and social care’ after being investigated by a United Nations committee for not fulfilling the terms of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
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Filipina death row inmate Mary Jane VelosoFilipina in Indonesian gallows for drug charges in positive disposition, even manages to work for her familyFilipina death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso remains calm and completely in control of her behavior and emotions despite being in prison for Leggi
"Nigerian national, Chijioke Stephen Obioha, had his death sentence carriedout on 18 November 2016 at Changi Prison Complex, Indonesia." - CNBSINGAPORE - Singapore on Friday executed two foreigners convicted of
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A federal judge should order Alabama to execute a death row inmate with an untried one-dose lethal injection method, attorneys for the inmate said today.But first, the judge should rule that the state's current three-drug method is invalid and can't be used in future executions, according to a17
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Duterte: "If Russia, China create ‘new order’ he would be first to join."President Rodrigo Duterte says if Russia, China create ‘new order’ he would be first to joinMANILA, Philippines—Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he might follow Russia’s
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A new study claims the trial and incarceration costs connected with the death penalty are almost twice as expensive than those for life sentences or other lesser penalties.Researchers at Lewis & Clark Law School and Seattle University reviewedhundreds of aggravated murder cases from 1984 to
Nick Yarris was charged with rape and murder when he was 20.Nick Yarris spent more than two decades on death row in the US after he was wrongly convicted of rape and murder, before a DNA test eventually freed him.
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Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsIranian authorities executed at least nine prisoners on Sunday November 13.Eight of the prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights (NOV 15 2016): On the morning of Sunday November 13, three unidentified prisoners were16
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Retail staff reveal the incidents of verbal abuse, threats and violent attacks they face at work.This year’s annual Respect for Shopworkers Week runs from 14 – 20 November, and this year the shopworkers’ trade union Usdaw (Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers) reps and members will be15
Nov
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The UK government needs to step in and enforce women’s safety at universities.As WVoN reported recently, a Taskforce established by Universities UK last year in response to campaigning by the End Violence Against Women Coalition and others, and after high profile cases brought by women who15
Nov
2016
'President Obama became the first U.S. President to visit a U.S. prison.'Gridlock and opposition in Congress forced Obama to resort to executive orders during his pronounced late-presidency focus on prisons, sentencing and policing – an ultimately
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"My question to the American public is: How many people need to be exonerated before we realize we do not need a death row in this country?"This was the focus of Anthony Ray Hinton's presentation at the UNM Law School on Thursday, where he was invited by UNM's Innocence and Justice Project.Leggi18
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"There is never any excuse for extracting forced 'confessions' throughtorture or other ill-treatment and broadcasting them in chilling videos."Iran's authorities have used crude propaganda tactics to dehumanize death penalty victims in the eyes of the public and divert attention away from the17
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The 16 Days campaign 2016: From Peace in The Home to Peace in The World: Make Education Safe For All!The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign’s 2016 Take Action Kit (TAK) is now available online.This year marks the 25th year of the 16 Days of Activism Against17
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Louisiana's Death ChamberThe unexpected victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton has spilled a series of questions about how a Trump presidency might impact the death penalty -- for decades a lightning rod for debate in criminal justice.19 states have outlawed death sentences while a16
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Georgia executed Wednesday evening a man who killed his ex-girlfriend in August 2001.Steven Frederick Spears was put to death by injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.Spears was pronounced dead at 7:30 p.m. He refused a final prayer
San Quentin's death row, CaliforniaA civil liberties group on Tuesday filed a lawsuit that could slow California's plans for resuming executions.The ACLU of Northern California challenged a state law that gives the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation wide flexibility in establishing16
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Faiq Akhtar is assisted after collapsing in Semarang District Court on Tuesday as he was sentenced to life imprisonment for smuggling 97 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine while his fellow pakistani got death penalty.The panel of judges at the Semarang District Court in Central Java has16
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has indicated that the Government cannot execute mentally ill death-row prisoners such as Imdad Ali, who suffers from schizophrenia.At a hearing this morning, judges said that if Imdad Ali, who suffers from schizophrenia, can be proven to have been mentally ill at the time16
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In North Carolina prisons, inmates in solitary confinement typically spend 22to 23 hours a day inside cells that are smaller than a parking space. This cell, atCentral Prison in Raleigh, is smaller than 100 square feet. Photo: J. MillerIn North Carolina’s prisons, about half a dozen inmates have15
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Join global action to increase worldwide awareness about violence against women and girls.The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign is a time to galvanise action to end violence against women and girls around the world.The 16 Days of this now annual event run from 2515
Nov
2016
Ronald PhillipsOhio has been fumbling its lethal injection protocol for years — dating back most notably to a failed execution in 2009 — and a series of events are about to collide in a most unpredictable manner.Ronald Phillips was sentenced to death for the 1993 rape and murder
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Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed MorsiDeposed Egyptian president no longer faces threat of execution but continues to serve long jail termsAn Egyptian court has overturned a death sentence against the deposed president Mohamed Morsi, and ordered a retrial.The Muslim Brotherhood leader was
Florida's death chamberThe Florida Supreme Court is ordering that two murderers be removed from death row and sentenced to life.The court issued its ruling Thursday, reducing the sentences of men convicted of unrelated double-murders in Polk County and Jacksonville.Robert McCloud was convicted of17
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How far have the cuts threatened NI’s women’s sector and the vital services provided by it?The women’s community and voluntary (CV) sector provides a range of services to women, children and families in some of the most disadvantaged areas of Northern Ireland (NI).The services are17
Nov
2016
"President Erdogan could govern Turkey until 2029 with expanded executive powers."ANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan could govern Turkey until 2029 with expanded executive powers under proposals the ruling AK Party hopes will go to a referendum next spring, officials who have seen the16
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Diagram of Clayton Lockett's 2nd autopsyLengthy 2014 execution at McAlester involved an improperly inserted IVDENVER — An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the controversial 2014 execution of an Oklahoma man, which lasted 43 minutes, was not cruel and inhumane.“Everyone acknowledges that (Clayton)16
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Chijioke Stephen ObiohaSingapore must immediately halt the execution of Chijioke Stephen Obioha, a Nigerian national on death row for possession of drugs, Amnesty International said today.On Wednesday, Chijioke Stephen Obioha's family was informed that his appeal for clemency has been rejected. He16
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John BattagliaJohn Battaglia, the former accountant who murdered his daughters while their mother listened helplessly on the phone in 2001, appeared in a Dallas County courtroom Monday as a judge considered whether he's mentally fit to be put to death.Battaglia, 61, is set to be executed Dec16
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Italian judges have called for a ‘reevaluation’ of Italy's involvement in the Egyptian justice system, amid concerns over human rights abuses in Egypt.The Consiglio Superiore Della Magistratura (CSM) said today that the body was meeting to discuss its involvement in an EU project that aims to16
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'State-condoned extrajudicial killings have soared since Duterte took office.'Since Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines, in May, more than three thousand people have been killed in a vicious drug war.Duterte does not, as he has put it, “give a shit” about
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"My question to the American public is: How many people need to be exonerated before we realize we do not need a death row in this country?"This was the focus of Anthony Ray Hinton's presentation at the UNM Law School on Thursday, where he was invited by UNM's Innocence and Justice Project.Leggi15
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After years of declining use of the death penalty across the United States and declining public support for capital punishment, last week's election gave hope to death penalty proponents. The results of balloting in California, Oklahoma and Nebraska as well as the election of Donald Trump seem to
'Jia Jinglong, 'a villager who became a symbol of injustices enduredby the country’s disenfranchised masses.'Villager convicted of murdering official said he was driven to it by the man ordering the illegal demolition of his home on eve of his weddingChinese authorities faced a bitter outcry