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Florida's death chamberWith one week left before the Florida Supreme Court goes on its summer recess, the justices have yet to rule on one of the most anticipated and politically charged questions facing them this year: Whether to commute the sentences of 390 death row inmates after the state’s
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"Not all human rights principles are necessarily universal.""Not all human rights principles are necessarily universal." -- Kazem Gharibabadi, International Deputy for the Iranian High Council for Human Rights.The Iranian government plans to host an international human rights conference in the01
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Jakarta. Saman Hasan, also known as Messi, a Turkish prisoner, has reportedly escaped the Besi Prison in Nusakambangan Island, Cilacap, Central Java, an official said on Friday (01/07).The drug convict was found to be missing from the prison on Thursday at around 4 p.m. when the wardens checked30
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The People's Court found Nguyen Thi Huong guilty of smuggling 2.8 kg of heroin.A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced a 73-year-old Vietnam-born Australian woman to death for trafficking heroin hidden in bars of soap, several state-run media
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The summer months aren’t all fun and games for women.Sexual harassment is a 24/7, 365 days-a-year problem – and as a 22 year-old woman, I know this well. It’s the bane of my day-to-day life, and it makes me feel on edge every time I leave the house.But, with summer officially upon us, I think29
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Solitary confinement cell: Entombed aliveInterview with a Former Corrections Officer Who Worked in Prison Isolation UnitsRecently, Solitary Watch had the opportunity to sit down with “X,” a former corrections officer who spent almost two years working on a segregation unit in Pennsylvania. (The28
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ECPM (Ensemble contre la peine de mort) convened the 6th World Congress Against the Death Penalty on 21-23 June 2016 in Oslo, Norway, to discuss ways forward in the abolition of the death penalty.The event gathered around 1000 participants (ministers, diplomats, parliamentarians, academics28
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Indonesia's President Joko WidodoHope and Hypocrisy: Despite fighting for the freedom of hundreds of its own citizens facing the death penalty abroad, Indonesia looks set to carry out a spate of executions of foreign nationals. Can international and local activists force the populist Jokowi27
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One key solution to ensuring we understand what girls and women face and need is to let them have a say.Win-win partnerships are key to achieving women’s and girls’ economic empowerment and will lead the way towards sustainable development, according to Plan International, UNIDO, UN Women and
Penn State researchers studying whether racial bias affects the imposition of the death penalty have begun crunching the data, a move signaling the end of a 4-year saga of waiting on a state report that has officially halted executions in the state.The Penn State findings might be made public25
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Court OKs execution but requires wait; AG won't ask for a rush1 of Arkansas' execution drugs will expire before a court decision upholding the state's execution law goes into effect, and might be impossible to replace.A spokesman for Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said Friday that she25
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The husband of a British-Iranian woman who has been detained without charge in Tehran for 83 days has spoken of his anger over the Foreign Office's handling of the matter, saying he feels "gamed" by officials who value trade above the welfare of British citizens and objected to his going Leggi01
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Celebrating the women chainmakers who downed their hammers and stood up for their right to earn a living wage.This year the Women Chainmakers’ Festival, to be held on 2 July, will again take place on Cradley Heath, in the West Midlands.The first trade festival dedicated to female trade30
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If you're wondering why the world needs Heterosexual Pride Day today, check out the map below.All the countries marked in red are the places where you can be arrested, verbally abused, beaten, physically assaulted, jailed, stoned to death, thrown off building tops, executed, hanged, killed30
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Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines.Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines, with many hoping his maverick style will energize the country but others fearing he could undercut one of Asia's liveliest
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Blasphemy is an extremely sensitive issue in Pakistan.2 Christians and a Muslim man were on Tuesday sentenced to death by a Pakistani anti terrorism court for committing blasphemy.The Anti-Terrorism Court of Gujranwala district announced the verdict in the case which was pending for the
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The UK government policy and ongoing failure of most of the media to attend to the impact of austerity ‘shameful’The United Nations (UN) has confirmed that the UK’s Austerity policies breach the UK’s international human rights obligations.The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
An Arkansas judge who last year declared unconstitutional a law that allows the state to keep confidential the source of drugs used for execution by lethal injection has lamented a 5-4 decision by the Arkansas Supreme Court reversing his ruling.In a breakout session on the death penalty at the27
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Even if you can’t get to the London demo you have a role to play; be part of the Home Team!Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) is a campaign group for women born in the 1950s who will not be getting their state pension at 60 and who are angry because the government did not inform27
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Death chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterThe Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the death sentence given in a lay judge trial to a 24-year-old man for murders he committed when he was a minor raises questions about the lay judge trial system and capital punishment. These
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ISIS members (file photo)The Islamic State murdered 5 Syrian media activists as it continues its assault on the press, maintaining tight control of the message that comes out of regions under the terrorist group's control.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has viewed a video released by ISIS
John Wayne ConnerConner was sentenced to die 34 years agoJohn Wayne Conner was scheduled Friday to become the sixth man executed in Georgia this year - a record number since the death penalty was reinstated here 40 years ago.The time for his lethal injection for the 1992 murder of
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Our intention: to continue the work of our foremothers to create a better world for our daughters.For a number of years Feminism in London (FiL) has held a conference bringing together many women from all over the world to share their work; growing the movement and creating a space for us to01
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Bob Macy of Oklahoma CountyHarvard report highlights the lion-sized role in modern death penalty of just four men and a woman, and how capital punishment is a ‘personality-driven system’As head prosecutors in their counties, just five individuals have been responsible for putting no fewer than 440
Indonesian President Joko WidodoThe Supreme Court has added five new death row inmates to the Attorney General’s Office’s (AGO) executions list, with the recent sentencing of five drug dealers.The move at country’s highest court comes just four days after President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo called on30
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Joaquin "El Chapo" GuzmanA judge in Mexico temporarily blocked the extradition of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the US after his lawyers appealed the move over fears that the infamous drug cartel leader might face the death penalty.Guzman’s extradition request was suspended Tuesday after two29
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Several European countries cut off financial contributions to republic's counter-narcotics campaignIran is under pressure to end its use of death penalty against drug traffickers after facing a serious shortfall in the international funding of the country's counter-narcotics campaign.An28
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Significant numbers of people, particularly women, are not benefiting from the roll-out of auto-enrolment.A TUC report published earlier this week has found that more than three million part-time women workers are excluded from workplace pensions.The report, ‘Unfinished Business: Building a28
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Rodrigo DuterteDuring a speech Monday, Philippines President-elect Rodrigo Duterte — who has sworn off interviews with the press — reiterated his support for capital punishment as a retaliatory measure and not a deterrent, disparaging human rights activists and opponents of the death penalty as27
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What if powerful institutions started to demand 50:50?For decades the numbers of women in science and engineering professions have remained depressingly stagnant, with percentages hovering limply in the single figures.Despite significant investment in media campaigns, outreach activities, and
Humam being brought to courtIn the early hours of the morning on the 19th day of Ramadan, as most of the country slept, the Maldives Supreme Court upheld the verdict by lower courts to kill Hussein Humam Ahmed. The 22-year-old man was convicted of killing MP
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The state of Arizona has eliminated its use of the sedative midazolam as one of the drugs it relies on in carrying out executions.Lawyers for the state said in a court filing Friday that its current supply of midazolam expired on May 31 and that Arizona's sources of the drug have
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L. Sandiford (center) knitting with other inmate in a Kerobokan prison cellAs she marks what could be her final birthday, sources close to death row gran Lindsay Sandiford say she isn't about to be executed.The convicted Redcar drug mule will
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Petitioning the Electoral Commission to give everyone in safe houses the right to vote.Ensure all survivors of domestic abuse who live in refuges and other safe houses can register to vote and use their Human Right to “vote in elections and have a say in the choice of government” (European