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Iskandar Rahmat3 years after he murdered 2 men, former police officer Iskandar Rahmat is fighting to save his own life.The Court of Appeal reserved judgment on Wednesday (Oct 26) on Iskandar's appeal against 2 death sentences handed down to him for the murder of Mr Tan Boon Sin, 67, and
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Cornell Law LibraryA new center at Cornell Law School aims to help eliminate the death penalty across the globe through research and lawyer training.The school on Tuesday announced the launch of the Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide - an initiative made possible by a $3.2 million grant from27
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Why are preventable occupational and environmental breast cancer risks being ignored?As we near the end of the global fundraising phenomena that is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the campaign group From Pink to Prevention is asking if environmental and occupational links to the disease are the26
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Putting gender equality at the heart of the New Urban Agenda.
In the early 1990s, just over 42 per cent of people were living in urban areas. Today, more than 54 per cent of the global population are urban dwellers. And by 2030, that percentage is expected to have risen to 60 per cent.
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Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Canada and Foreign Minister Stéphane Dion.'If we asked Canada to send...a Canadian citizen, in Canadian jail, to Saudi Arabia, do you accept that?' the Saudi ambassador asks.PUBLISHED : Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 12:00 AM. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to
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Prince Turki Bin Saud Bin Turki Bin Saud Al KabeerVictim’s father refused to accept blood money from Prince Turki’s family, insisting on executionManama: The Saudi prince who was executed on Tuesday for the murder of a friend met his family for
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It was bliss. It was nothing like I had expected.When my three children and I arrived at a women’s refuge, scared, skint and emotionally battered, I had no idea what to expect.A refuge is one of those places that everyone knows about, but nobody knows about, if that makes sense? It’s like the
Warrant for public execution in Saudi ArabiaA warrant for a public execution in Saudi Arabia has emerged, shedding rare light on the death penalty in the country just days before the government hopes to be re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council.The document, published
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The recent furore which followed the Supreme Court judgment regarding schizophrenia is not without cause: The Court has concluded that since schizophrenia is "not a permanent mental disorder', it is "therefore, a recoverable disease, which, in all the cases, does not fall within the definition of24
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'Less than half of Americans say they support the death penalty.'Although the death penalty is still considered constitutional by the Supreme Court, Americans’ appetite for this barbaric practice diminishes with each passing year.The signs of capital punishment’s impending demise are all24
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Theresa May’s Great Repeal Bill will leave workers’ rights hanging by a thread – MPs could do nothing. By Melanie Onn.Theresa May announced last month that the government will look to pass a Great Repeal Bill, which will replace the European Communities Act [ECA] once Britain has left the
Iran Human Rights (October 19 2016): 14 prisoners were reportedly executed today on drug charges at Karaj's Ghezel Hesar Prison (Alborz province, northern Iran).According to close sources, Iranian authorities hanged 14 prisoners at Ghezel Hesar Prison on the morning of Wednesday October 18.The27
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Liberty held its annual Human Rights Awards event on 26 October.The nominees on Liberty‘s Human Rights Awards 2016 shortlist had been made public earlier.The nominees for the Christine Jackson Young Person Award were:Luke Buckland – for his campaign to end the use of Public Space Protection
New figures have shown that 94% of prisoners recently hanged in Pakistan had nothing to do with terrorism – throwing doubt on claims that an executions drive which began in the country nearly two years ago is designed to combat ‘terrorism.’The figures, collated by human rights organizations26
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Significant gender differences in the participation of male and female councillors were observed.In 2015 Milton Keynes members of the Fawcett Society undertook an observational study of Milton Keynes Council meetings in order to explore whether there were gender differences and/or inequalities26
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As the clock ticks down on Nebraska voters' decision on whether to retain the Legislature's decision to repeal the death penalty, the anti-death penalty campaign on Tuesday zeroed in on wrongful murder convictions.Retain A Just Nebraska, the organization that wants voters to replace the death25
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Artist Ben Quilty surrounded by works painted by Myuran Sukumaran.With 24 hours left before he faced death by firing squad, Myuran Sukumaran could have been forgiven for wallowing in self-pity and regret. Yet Sukumaran, one of nine Australians arrested for heroin smuggling
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Gender inequality threatens future of women in teaching profession.Over half of women teachers said they feel generally or very pessimistic about their future in the teaching profession and many women teachers who have requested flexible working have had their request denied by their employer
Missouri's Death ChamberA reporter suing over Missouri's refusal to allow him to witness an execution isn't constitutionally guaranteed a right to see someone put to death, the state argued in asking a federal judge to throw out the case.The state, in a court filing last week, also said that25
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Myuran Sukumaran (left) and Ben Quilty in Kerobokan's painting workshopThe first major exhibition of artworks by Myuran Sukumaran, who was executed by Indonesia for heroin smuggling, is to be held during next year’s Sydney festival.Sukumaran, one of a group known as the
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Voters on Nov. 8 will decide the fate of the long-dormant death penalty in California.2 competing propositions address the controversial practice, which was last used by the state corrections system more than 10 years ago.Proposition 62 would repeal the death penalty and commute the sentences24
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A worldwide call for women and girls to bring light to their climate struggles and solutions.Join the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, The Women’s Global Call for Climate Justice and allies around the world for ‘Women Act for Climate Justice — Ten Days of Global Mobilization’ from 2823
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Chinese lawyer and crime fiction writer Prof He JiahongBorn into China's cultural revolution, He Jiahong spent years working in the fields before studying law to win over his girlfriend's parents. Now he is a leading authority on miscarriages of justice, and
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Join the memorial procession leaving Trafalgar Square at 12 noon on 29 October 2016.The fight against state violence, police brutality and deaths in custody is, among other things, undoubtedly a feminist issue.For – among other things – when state violence kills, it is so often mothers
Darkness at Noon: Collective hanging in present-day Iran (file photo)Anti-human regime of mullahs hanged 12 prisoners in the central prisons of Karaj, Shiraz, Sepidar of Ahvaz and Salmas during days 23 to 25 October.One of the five prisoners that were hanged collectively on
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An anti-death penalty group is crying foul over radio advertisements in which the secretary of state tries to "clarify" ballot language that will decide the fate of capital punishment in Nebraska.Retain a Just Nebraska sent a letter to the Nebraska Broadcasters Association asking it to stop26
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Authorities in Pakistan have handed down an execution warrant to a death-row prisoner who is severely mentally ill.Pakistan's interior ministry today handed down a so-called ‘black warrant’ confirming that it plans to hang Imdad Ali, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, next Wednesday (2nd)25
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Iranian authorities hanged 5 prisoners early Tuesday morning for alleged drug related offenses, but Iranian official sources are silent about these executions.5 prisoners were reportedly hanged early morning on Tuesday October 25 for alleged drug related offenses. Close sources say the execution25
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Add caption29 year old Prabagaran A/L Srivijayan has been condemned to death. The only thing that will prevent the execution is if the President pardons him, or if an appeal, which has been made to the court and is under consideration, actually succeeds.Caught at the CheckpointPrabagaran was
The Supreme Court today put on hold till further order the execution of Vikram Singh alias Vicky and Jasbir Singh, both sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Abhi Verma alias Harry, a student of Hoshiarpur's DAV School, in February 2005.A 3-member Bench headed by Justice Dipak
President Uhuru KenyattaNAIROBI, Kenya — With a stroke of his pen, President Uhuru Kenyatta spared the lives of thousands of prisoners on Kenya’s death row on Monday by commuting their sentences to life in prison.Kenyan law allows capital punishment and convicts are regularly sentenced to death24
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Barbarism. There is no other way to describe the senseless bloodlust and spiteful vindictiveness that characterises what passes for the criminal justice system in Pakistan.In a judgment that will long be remembered for its sheer idiocy and mind boggling insensitivity, the Supreme Court of
Public execution of a Burmese woman in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi Arabia's rulers are not as popular as they used to be in the kingdom. With low global oil prices, officials have been forced to cut spending dramatically in a nation
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Chinese police officers demonstrate standard execution proceduresA Chinese man who killed a village chief who arranged for his house to be demolished will be executed in the coming days. The ruling against 30-year-old Jia Jinglong was delivered to his lawyer on Tuesday.Jia is from Shijiazhuang