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“It is difficult to overstate the significance of EU law in protecting against sex discrimination.”
Voting to leave the European Union – or for Brexit – in the referendum on 23 June would mean risking “turning the clock back decades” on women’s rights, according to a new report published by the TUC earlier this week.
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Two-day strike at UK universities over pay, pay gaps, and insecure contracts.The University and College Union’s planned two-day national strike at UK universities is going ahead – is going on now – as part of a now long-running dispute over various aspects of staff pay.University and College25
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)NCRI – Iran’s fundamentalist regime mass executed on Wednesday 11 prisoners in their twenties, including at least one who is believed to have been a minor at the time of his alleged offence. Another three prisoners were executed on Tuesday.The 11
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Hamas members prepare to execute Palestinians for allegedly spying for Israelin August 2014.The Palestinian militant group Hamas is to carry out a string of public executions in the Gaza strip, the patch of territory it controls.The executions were
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Setsuko was thirteen when the US dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.By Michelle Thomson MP.We were honoured to receive a visit in Parliament recently from a survivor of one of the most horrific events of the 20th century, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.Setsuko Thurlow, aged 8424
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Tangerang, Banten. Police confiscated more than 70 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine in a drug bust at the Arcadia Housing Complex in Batuceper, a subdistrict of Tangerang, Banten, on Monday (23/05), shortly after they arrested two members of an international drug syndicate at the Soekarno-Hatta23
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Sister Helen PrejeanWorld-renowned activist, author and Catholic nun Sister Helen Prejean does not mince words about why the death penalty should be abolished.Prejean is the author of numerous books, including Dead Man Walking, a New York Times bestseller for six months upon its release in 1993
Hamas members prepare to execute Palestinians for allegedly spying for Israelin August 2014.Gaza’s ruling Hamas terrorist organization has scheduled 13 public executions in the style of the Da’esh (ISIS) terror group.Although there have been death sentences carried out
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Louisiana's death rowIt seems incontestable that Louisiana's criminal justice system is in a state of collapse. The state judiciary appears to be oblivious to violations of the constitutional rights of criminal defendants; prosecutors continue to violate the rights of accused with impunity22
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A. Lieberman and Prime Minister Netanyahu Bill would have allowed capital punishment for those convicted of ideologically motivated murderYisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman on Saturday reportedly dropped his demand for the revival of a draft bill allowing the sentencing of convicted20
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'Screaming and kicking every step of the way...'Last week's news told us everything we need to know about the death penalty in America today.On Thursday, May 12, in Alabama, the scheduled execution of Vernon Madison was halted at the last minute because of a split 4-4 vote by the Supreme Court20
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Medieval and barbaric punishments: Public hanging in IranThe latest execution reports say Iranian authorities have hanged 5 prisoners at Tabriz Central Prison (East Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran), 2 prisoners at Urmia Central Prison (West Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran), and 1
Abdullah, the Sudanese fatherManama: A Saudi father has turned down SR225,000 (Dh220,353) given to him in blood money following the death of his son.The son died in a car accident caused by a stray camel on a highway in Sakakah, in northwestern Saudi Arabia.The blood money was
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Nebraska: Gathering signatures against the death penalty repealSeveral arguments were advanced on Monday morning by state Sen. Colby Coash of Lincoln and state Sen. Mike Gloor of Grand Island in urging Nebraska voters to uphold the action of the Legislature in doing away with
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Retrospective will explore themes that run throughout Knights’ oeuvre including women’s independence.Dulwich Picture Gallery is to present the first major retrospective of work by Winifred Knights, 1899-1947, an award-winning Slade School artist and the first British woman to win the Prix de24
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Iranian human rights activist Narges MohammadiThe international community has reacted with outrage after Narges Mohammadi, the ailing Iranian human rights activist already serving a six-year jail term, was given a further 16-year sentence by a revolutionary court in Tehran.Mohammadi, 44, was found
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a black Georgia death row inmate convicted in 1987 of murdering an elderly white woman, finding that prosecutors unlawfully excluded black potential jurors in selecting an all-white jury.In a 7-1 ruling, the court handed a victory to inmate23
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Singapore's Changi PrisonHuman rights lawyer M Ravi has said in a Facebook post that Kho Jabing suffered an egregious breach of his constitutional right to counsel just hours before he was executed.Mr Ravi said that he was with lawyer Alfred Dodwell and other activists outside the Chambers of22
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Kho Jabing (family photo)"He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." --Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ) interrupting a public execution of a woman for adultery. John 8:7.This is Jabing Kho. He was born in 1984, in a taxi on the way
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Charles FloresThe next person in America scheduled to be executed has filed his final appeal, arguing that his conviction for murder was based on "flimsy" evidence and was racially motivated.Charles Flores, a Texas inmate who is schedule to receive a lethal injection on June 2, filed a legal brief21
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Louisiana's death rowA federal judge will decide whether to order a Louisiana prison to install air conditioning for inmates on death row, according to the Associated Press.Prison officials at Louisiana State Penitentiary have for three years maintained that ice, fans and a cold shower are enough20
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Arizona will not be killing anyone by lethal injection anytime soon.This comes as a result of 3 things:1. A recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Neil Wake keeping all executions in Arizona on hold for an unspecified amount of time.2. Pfizer, a pharmaceutical giant, recently announcing it would20
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Rodrigo DuterteHuman right group Amnesty International on Friday said the Philippines would be abandoning international commitments if it pushes through with the plan to bring back the death penalty as favored by incoming president Rodrigo Duterte."It would be a shame on the Philippines," said AI25
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CRIME MAY. 25, 2016 - 06:49AM JST ( 25 ) TOKYO — The Japanese Diet on Tuesday enacted a law to make a series of changes to criminal proceedings, including obligating police and prosecutors to record interrogations of suspects and expanding the scope of wiretapping by investigators.But questions24
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More than 9 years after the murder of their daughter, the parents of Jodi Sanderholm are speaking out to KSN News, as the execution of the man convicted in her murder, remains very much in doubt.Jodi Sanderholm was 19 years old when she was murdered in Ark City, Kansas."I'm sure she, Jodi24
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Dylann RoofFederal prosecutors will seek a death sentence for Dylann Roof, the man accused of killing nine parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church last year.“Following the department’s rigorous review process to thoroughly consider all relevant factual and legal issues, I have determined that24
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Riyadh, May 24: Saudi Arabia put to death a citizen convicted of murder today, bringing to 94 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.Imad al-Assimi was found guilty of shooting dead a compatriot in a dispute, the
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ERBIL – Authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran executed five Kurdish rights activists in the northwestern Urmia city, officials and local activists confirmed on Friday. The Kurdish rights activists Naji Kiwan, Ali Kurdian, Haidar Ramini, Nadir Muhamadi and Ruhman Rashidi were arrested on23
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The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) on Saturday warned presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte that his plan to revive the death penalty and implement a "shoot-to-kill" policy against criminals would be antipoor and violate international law.In a statement on Saturday, FLAG chair Jose22
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Iranian Resistance calls for saving the lives of 10 young prisoners facing the gallowsAt a time when 23 prisoners were executed on May 17 and 18 in the prisons of Urumieh, Tabriz, Yazd, Yasouj, Sari and Mashhad across Iran, another 10 young prisoners between the ages of 21
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Singapore's Changi Prison, where hangings are carried out"A cold state machinery that knows no compassion, that would rush a man to his death out of procedural efficiency."Amnesty International condemned todaythe execution of Sarawakian Kho Jabing in Singapore that was carried out hours after21
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Oklahoma Death ChamberScathing report on botched execution underscores a ‘failed’ system rife with ‘negligence’ and raises the question of whether the state can be trustedOn 10 October 2014, the state of Oklahoma threw open the doors of its maximum-security McAlester prison to reporters – the20
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Google it!The governor of Oklahoma's top lawyer is out of a job after insisting that a state execution proceed despite prison officials receiving the wrong drug for carrying it out, while telling a deputy attorney general alerting him to the problem to "Google it."A grand jury report found that20
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A grand jury on Thursday sharply criticized state officials charged with carrying out executions in Oklahoma, describing them as responsible for a litany of failures and avoidable errors.The grand jury’s 106-page report, released Thursday, paints these officials as careless and, in some cases