15
Ago
2016
As a volunteer, I go into schools and present the current legal position regarding consent.
By Emily McFadden, a solicitor at Bolt Burdon Kemp.
I attended training recently with The Schools Consent Project. I’ll be going into schools as a volunteer lawyer to present workshops on the issue of consent, talking about the law of consent, and what consent means to young people.
Leggi tutto15
Ago
2016
The TUC outlines action government, employers and trade unions could take to challenge and defeat racist behaviour.Unions, employers and the government must redouble their efforts to tackle the increase in racism following the vote to leave the European Union, new TUC report said.The UK has14
Ago
2016
Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" WidodoJAKARTA, Indonesia — Sixteen years ago, Zulfiqar Ali left his native Pakistan for Indonesia in search of a new life. Last month, that life was on the verge of ending in front of a firing squad.Mr. Ali has been on Indonesia’s death row
Leggi Tutto12
Ago
2016
Hopefully similar positive steps will be taken UK-wide in the weeks and months to come.The new Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has been living up to his promise to be a “proud feminist” at City Hall.Sadiq Khan has been in office as the Mayor of London barely three months, but he is already10
Ago
2016
Exposing lives lived at odds with the idea of a modern Britain in the twenty-first century.Hsiao-Hung Pai‘s third book, ‘Invisible: Britain’s Migrant Sex Workers’, published in 2013, focused on the story of two migrant sex workers in the United Kingdom.Pai worked undercover as a maid in
Louisiana death rowBATON ROUGE (AP) — The state of Louisiana has spent more than three years and over $1 million in taxpayer money to fight a lawsuit that claims three death row inmates are exposed to dangerous heat levels in their cells.A possible low-tech solution costs less than $2,000 Leggi09
Ago
2016
Scores of Youths Likely Face Execution in IranThe mass execution of 20 people in Iran’s Rajai Shahr prison was not the only grim news from that country this past week.On August 1, Alireza Tajiki, who was sentenced to death at age 15 following a trial that fell
Leggi Tutto09
Ago
2016
Mohammad AbdollahiNCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime on Tuesday executed political prisoner Mohammad Abdollahi and five other prisoners in a jail in Orumieh (Urmia), north-west Iran.Mohammad Abdollahi, 35, a Kurdish political prisoner from Bukan, was arrested in March 2011 in Mahabad by the08
Ago
2016
Presenting strong female role models in science through arresting and powerful music-theatre.Minerva Scientifica is an evolving music-theatre programme reflecting the lives and work of British women scientists as told through the music of British women composers.The project brings together
Senator Manny PacquiaoMANILA, Philippines -- Sen. Manny Pacquiao on Monday took the Senate floor to push for the reimposition of the death penalty, saying the Bible allows it and that it will benefit millions of Filipinos by punishing those in the drug trade.Pacquiao, in his first privilege speech08
Ago
2016
Source: Iran Human Rights, August 7, 2016⚑ | Report an error, an omission; suggest a story or a new angle to an existing story; send a submission; recommend a resource; contact the webmaster, contact us: Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per07
Ago
2016
Indonesia's Attorney General H. M. PrasetyoJakarta. The Commission for Public Prosecutions, or Komjak, will file a complaint against Attorney General H.M. Prasetyo for what it claims was the unlawful execution of two death-row prisoners, whose clemency applications were still being14
Ago
2016
Freddy Budiman, shortly before his execution on Nusakambangang Island.Jakarta. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo ordered the National Police to investigate claims by a recently executed drug lord that law enforcers have long been involved in drug-trafficking rings in the country.Rights activist Haris14
Ago
2016
Jeffery Lee WoodTerri Been’s voice shook as she read a long text message from her niece.“I had a nightmare about my dad last night,” Paige Rowan told her aunt in the text.Rowan described a dream in which she watched helplessly as the execution needle pierced her father’s skin.She woke
Leggi Tutto11
Ago
2016
Robert PruettHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) A Texas death row inmate who faced execution later this month for the murder of a corrections officer won a reprieve Thursday.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruling halted the scheduled Aug. 23 execution of Robert Pruett, 36, who was sentenced to death for10
Ago
2016
Employers need to take the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace seriously.More than half (52 per cent) of women, and nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of women aged 18-24 years old, said they have experienced sexual harassment at work, according to new research from the TUC and the
Speaker Pantaleon AlvarezSPEAKER Pantaleon Alvarez said the debate on the method of executing death convicts should focus more on cost―the cheaper, the better.In an interview with reporters, Alvarez said lawmakers should not make a big deal of how a death convict should be killed, whether through
Hussein Humam Ahmed, 22, convicted of killing MP Dr Afrasheem Ali in 2012UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein says the country's movement toward resuming executions is "deeply regrettable."The United Nations' human rights chief is urging the Maldives to stick
Leggi Tutto09
Ago
2016
Shahram AmiriWashington (CNN) - The execution of an Iranian nuclear scientist accused of spying for the US is reverberating from Tehran to the presidential campaign trail.Critics, including opponent Donald Trump, are slamming former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for having received emails
More than a month after the Austin Police Department was forced to abruptly shut down its DNA testing lab, it remains unclear whether any criminal convictions will be thrown out because of improper testing. In the meantime, the city has arranged interim lab arrangements and is trying to cut down on08
Ago
2016
Death row isolation cells on Nusakambangan penal islandJakarta. The National Anti-Narcotics Agency, or BNN, will summon a former chief warden of the Nusakambangan Prison, Liberty Sitinjak, as part of its investigation into a testimony from executed drug trafficker Freddy Budiman made public by
Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoğanTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told a rally of millions of people in Istanbul on Aug. 7 that he would approve the death penalty if parliament voted for it, following last month's failed coup.Erdoğan started his speech at the "Democracy and Martyrs'
Two unidentified prisoners were hanged in northern Iran on unknown charges.Iran Human Rights (AUG 6 2016): Two unidentified prisoners were reportedly hanged on unknown charges at Choubindar, Qazvin's central prison (northern Iran).According to unofficial source, HRANA, the executions were carried
Public hanging in Kazeroon Iran, on August 11, 2016Two prisoners were hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison on Wednesday August 10, while another two prisoners were hanged in public in two different Iranian cities on Tuesday August 11.Iran Human Rights (AUG 11 2016): On
Leggi Tutto12
Ago
2016
“It cannot be right that so many girls go missing each year in the summer holidays.”In the last five years an estimated 60 young women have been murdered in the UK in the name of ‘honour’ – and a further 12,000 have been the victims of ‘honour’ crimes which include both beatings and11
Ago
2016
A possible ‘home for the library’ project has until 16 August to crowdfund enough money!The Feminist Library has, as you may recall, been forced to go house-hunting.Prices in London being what they are, etc, – but the Library may have found a new home with Old Kent Road Studios.A move to
Early morning Tuesday August 9: Iranian authorities executed at least six prisoners in the West Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran.Iran Human Rights (AUG 9 2016): At least five prisoners, including political prisoner Mohammad Abdollahi, were executed at Darya, Urmia's central prison, on09
Ago
2016
Call to action!On 1 August a new international social media advocacy campaign was launched on Twitter called #52playsbywomen.It is a campaign for the theatre, inspired by Women In Film’s successful #52filmsbywomen campaign.Started by American writer Laura Annawyn Shamas, #52playsbywomen’s09
Ago
2016
Committee invite you to submit written evidence to assist with inquiry.‘Is the approach to tackling violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence improving?’The Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee (the Committee) is undertaking a post legislative inquiry into the08
Ago
2016
Rio presents an innovative joint programme set up to empower young women and girls through sport.UN Women, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Always (#LikeAGirl) will be celebrating women’s and girls’ empowerment through sport and the shared experiences of the ‘One Win Leads to
NCRI - A notorious torture expert and official of the mullahs’ regime has attempted to justify the executions in Iran of young adults, who were under 18 when they were charged.On August 4, Mohammad-Javad Larijani, who in a bizarre twist is the secretary of the Iranian regime’s so-called Human08
Ago
2016
NCRI – Four prisoners were executed on Saturday, August 6, in Lakan Prison in the northern Iranian city of Rasht.The state broadcaster IRIB quoted Ahmad Siavoshpour, the head of the regime’s judiciary in Gilan Province, as saying that the victims were between the ages of 26 and 65 and one Leggi07
Ago
2016
Shahram AmiriTEHRAN, Iran - Iran confirmed on Sunday that it has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist who gave the U.S. intelligence about the country's contested nuclear program.The official IRNA news agency quoted a spokesman for Iran's judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi, confirming the07
Ago
2016
NCRI - Iran's fundamentalist regime hanged four prisoners on Wednesday, a day after more than two dozen Sunni political prisoners were mass executed by the regime prompting international condemnation.Three of the victims were hanged on Wednesday, August 3, in a prison in the city of Saqqez, in the