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Committee seeks commitments from parties to increase the number of women MPs.
There are currently more men in the House of Commons than the total number of women ever elected.
The proportion of women MPs has increased in recent years, but this progress is potentially at risk from the impact of the 2018 Boundary Reviews.
In an evidence session held on 12 October, the Women and Equalities Committee aims to gain a commitment from the main political parties that representation of women will be a key priority for the 2020 General Election, and that they will aim to increase numbers of women MPs in both absolute and relative terms.
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A death verdict is handed down to Siarhei Vostrykau (right) on May 19, 2016.Human rights report details abuse used to extract confessions in only European country to use death penaltyThe last European country to retain capital punishment has resumed sentencing people to death since EU sanctions12
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasThe Catholic bishops of Texas Oct. 10 called for the abolition of the death penalty, denouncing its effects not only on victims and others immediately affected, but also on society."Capital punishment vitiates our hearts' capacity for mercy and love," the bishops11
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Family members and lawyers of convicts recall the confusion ahead of the executions in July amid current uncertainty and a lack of reliable information. Uncertainty continues for the 10 convicts who received last minute stays of execution, as they remain in isolation cells on the Nuskambangan11
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The Guerrilla Girls set up a Complaints Department in the Tate’s new Switch House building.On 8 October the art collective Liberate Tate along with The Guerrilla Girls challenged the Tate art galleries to never again partner with any fossil fuel company once its controversial relationship with10
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Omar RaddadParce qu'en d'autres temps, sous un autre Président de la République, Omar Raddad, incarnation du coupable idéal, aurait sans doute dû être réhabilité à titre posthume. - DPNVingt-cinq ans après, nouveau rebondissement dans l’affaire Omar Raddad. Les empreintes génétiques récemment10
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Death row isolation cells on Nusakambangan Island, IndonesiaIndonesia, 1 of only 25 countries in the world that still impose capital punishment, has seen 35 people sentenced to death by the courts since the start of the year, according to the Commission for Missing Persons
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An Omaha senator is asking the state auditor's office to investigate the attempt by the Department of Correctional Services to acquire lethal injection drugs from a foreign broker.Sen. Burke Harr is asking questions about a contract with Chris Harris, salesman and owner of HarrisPharma, which as08
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Nevadaapproved spending $858,000 to build a new execution chamber; the space will be used for storage and as an attorney-inmate meeting area if no executions are scheduled.Nevada prison officials said Friday the state will have to explore its options to carry out executions after it received no
Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaA U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to end "severe" discrimination against girls and to repeal laws that allow the stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children.The Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned the Saudi-led
The New Mexico House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill that would reinstate the death penalty for select crimes Thursday morning strictly along party lines.The measure passed the House with 36 votes in favor, and 30 opposed. The bill heads to the state Senate next, but reports indicate the06
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Matthew ShepardEighteen years ago today, Matthew stopped into the Fireside Bar in Laramie, Wyoming, to take a break from his studies at home. By the following morning, a family, and a nation, was changed forever by an act of senseless violence.We continue to grieve and share Matt’s story with the12
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Asia Bibi, Pakistani Christian and mother of 5, is on death row. Pakistan's Supreme Court is set to hear the final appeal of her case tomorrow - Thursday, October 13th. Today, we delivered an emergency letter in support of Asia to Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States. Our letter requests that
LEGISLATORS have said their hands are tied over abolition of death penalty in Zimbabwe, saying scrapping the sentence rests more with the executive and political party leaders than Parliament.Speaking during commemorations of the World Day against Death Penalty this Monday, legislators from the11
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The space immediately outside abortion clinics should not be a protest zone.Women are being filmed, followed and intimidated on a daily basis by anti-abortion protesters standing directly outside clinics providing abortions in the UK.But, clearly, women should be able to access legal
San Quentin's Death RowA Death Row inmate at San Quentin State Prison slashed a correctional officer with a makeshift weapon inside one of the facility’s showers — a decade after he pulled a similar attack on another correctional officer, authorities said Monday.Richard Penunuri, 38, attacked the10
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There are still 2,905 people on death row in the US and 8,200 in Pakistan.Given my 3-decade obsession with fighting the death penalty in the US and around the world, people often quiz me on whether I think I will see the last execution chamber abolished in my lifetime. To which my
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On the 14th World Day Against the Death Penalty, Oct 10, 2016, Malaysians Against Death Penalty and Torture (Madpet) urges Malaysia to expedite the abolition of the death penalty, and to impose a moratorium on all executions against the death penalty.Nancy Shukri, the then-minister in the Prime
There may be a fatal flaw in the argument against lethal injection in Tennessee: whether or not there is a more humane way to execute condemned inmates.The 5 justices of the Tennessee Supreme Court heard a case Thursday that questions the constitutionality of the state's single-drug lethal08
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Anthony Ray Hinton, left, embraces Shannon Holliday, coordinatorof Shepherd’s Common Reading program. Photo by Emily Daniels.SHEPHERDSTOWN — For 30 years, Anthony Ray Hinton spent his life in a tiny cell on death row in Alabama’s
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Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee (right)NCRI - Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee an Iranian writer and human rights activist has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment in Iran for writing a story about stoning. She faces years of imprisonment even though her writing has not even been published. The Iranian06
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The Walls Unit, Huntsville, TexasThe state broke its longest streak without an execution. But the highest criminal court has issued multiple late stays - and the legal process may be changingAt the time, in the state that executes more people than any other, it was hardly surprising
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The Supreme Court left little doubt Wednesday that it will side with a black Texas prison inmate who argues improper testimony about his race tainted his death sentence.The justices often are divided on death penalty cases, but conservatives and liberals alike agreed that inmate Duane Buck is
The Arkansas attorney general's office warned legislators Monday not to explore alternative execution methods after the state's lethal injection protocol and execution secrecy law were found constitutional by Arkansas' high court.The House Judiciary Committee heard a proposal for an interim study11
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Why is girls’ mental health declining, and what is being done about it?Research conducted for the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed that the mental health of teenage girls in the UK has worsened in recent years.The research which compared the experiences and attitudes of teenagers11
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The Hyderabad chapter of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)observed the 'World day against death penalty'Activists of the Hyderabad chapter of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) observed the 'World day against
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A courtroom at the Naha District Court in OkinawaIn Japan, nearly all cases that go to court end in convictions, but some abuse the law to obtain false confessions.For 2 decades, people thought Keiko Aoki was a cold-blooded killer. Convicted of murdering her
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called the death penalty a cruel and inhumane practice - one that 65 countries globally retain for terrorism-related offenses - which is the focus of this year's World Day against the Death Penalty."It has no place in the 21st century," Mr. Ban10
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Rayhaneh JabbariMother of Rayhaneh Jabbari who hanged in October 2014 for defending herself against assault by a member of the Iranian regime's intelligence has pledged to fight for abolishment of death sentence in Iran.In a letter published in news networks, Mrs Sholeh Pakravan, wrote: "It's now08
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Zeinab SokianOn September 30, a young woman delivered a stillborn child in Euromieh central prison, in northern Iran. That would be tragic for any mother, but in Zeinab Sokian's case, the tragedy is runs even deeper: the delivery brings her one step closer to the gallows.Zeinab, who was sentenced07
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Gallows trap door at an execution chamber at the Tokyo Detention CenterJapan's biggest lawyers' group on Friday called for the abolition of the death penalty, a controversial move in country where a large majority of the public supports
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Hamza SodagarA US-based Muslim preacher who allegedly advocated killing gay people is giving a lecture series in London after being allowed to enter the UK.The Home Office has been urged to retract the visa of Hamza Sodagar who is giving a series of lectures in the capital city between 3 Leggi06
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Re-enactment at Oliver Café in Jakarta, where the victim died after sippingan iced coffee her friend had bought for her.The family of Wayan Mirna Salihin, the former Sydney design student allegedly poisoned at a Jakarta cafe in January, has lambasted the 20-year jail sentence sought by Leggi06
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Execution of Hani Abu Aliyan in Gaza on October 2, 2013On Wednesday, 05 October 2016, Khan Younis First Instance Court issued a death sentence against a woman, setting a precedent in the history of the Palestinian Judiciary.The Palestinian Center for Human
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