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TTIP will allow corporations to control more of our economy, Green MEP warns at European Parliament.
Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP for the South West, received applause in the European Parliament on 7 July when she had an opportunity to speak against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal.
Dr Scott Cato told MEPs: “We are the democratic arm of the EU institutions.
“Our job is to stand up for what the citizens of Europe want and I can tell you very clearly that they don’t want TTIP.
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We need to end the routine detention of asylum seekers.More than 25 women are to be released from Yarl’s Wood detention centre after the fast track asylum appeal system was suspended by the government.The Home Office will no longer be able to “fast track” asylum cases it believes have no06
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The Republican-dominated Pennsylvania House recently voted in favor of a resolution condemning the death penalty moratorium enacted by Democratic Governor Tom Wolf in February, shortly after his historic win over Republican incumbent Tom Corbett. In a perfect example of how things sometimes go in06
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The UN has called on the Ethiopian government to release a British father of three held in a secret location in Ethiopia.A new opinion from experts at the UN Human Rights Council orders the Ethiopian government to release and compensate Andargachew ‘Andy’ Tsege, from London, who was abducted at a
Help put an end to abuses committed by European multinationals.Many transnational companies violate human rights with absolute impunity.Offshoring is not only used for tax avoidance or cost reduction, but also to reduce accountability procedures, thanks to the lack of coordination between04
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Yellow Mama: Alabama's disused electric chairWhen Nebraska abolished the death penalty in May, was that change inspired by the state's unique circumstances, or is it a harbinger of the tide turning in other conservative states?The decision prompted a flurry of speculation that other states will03
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What will the world look like in 2050? Shared pets? Edible walls?Socially-responsible advertising? Online games shaping real life – think SimCity influencing town planning?Big Ideas Change the World is a Friends of the Earth project.Big Ideas Change the World will identify what needs to02
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MPs need to stand together and back the NHS Reinstatement Bill.By Caroline Lucas.The cross-party NHS Reinstatement Bill which was backed last week by the British Medical Association, [the BMA], seeks to reinstate the NHS based on its founding principles and rid our health service of the25
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Chinese police officers rehearsing lethal injection proceduresSHENYANG, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Three people were executed Wednesday in the largest drug case to be heard in Liaoning Province, northeast China, a local court said.Ma Min, Yao Hongguo and Li Na were found guilty of smuggling 2,000 Leggi24
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Dylann Roof's arrest caught on dashcam video.WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will likely file federal hate crime charges against the man suspected of carrying out a massacre at a storied black church in South Carolina, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday.Dylann Roof, 21, already24
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The number of inmates on Texas' death row is falling.At its peak in 1999, 460 men and women were living with a death sentence in Texas, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Today, there are 260.The reason for the decline isn't a rise in executions. In 2000, an all-time24
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As Oklahoma's death-row inmates await word on whether the state's execution procedure is constitutional, states - including Oklahoma - maintain strong laws protecting disclosure of information about the way they implement the death penalty.Last year, an Oklahoma inmate sat on a gurney for 4307
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We expect leadership on this basic fairness issue.The Chief Executive of M&S Marc Bolland is being paid £2.1 million this year.Last year, his company refused to consider paying a Living Wage – £9.15 an hour in London and £7.85 in the rest of the UK – at its Annual General Meeting06
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We ask the Federal Government of the United States to abolish the federal death penalty.While we recognize the rights of states to determine within their borders the limits of punishment, the United States remains one of increasingly few nations who endorse this archaic practice AS a06
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Four conspirators in President Lincoln’s assassination are hanged July 7, 1865.It was a blazing hot July afternoon, and the condemned were led in irons from the Washington penitentiary about 1 p.m.They passed the pre-dug graves and the stack of gun crates that
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Ohio has explored overseas options in its search for lethal injection drugs no longer available in the U.S. despite a court ruling that banned such purchases, records show.The prison where Ohio carries out executions successfully applied for an import license from the U.S. Drug Enforcement04
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A grassroots effort aims to restore what the legislature just ended.At the front counter of Dinkel Implement Co., a farm equipment dealer in Norfolk, Neb., there is a sheet of paper that voters can sign to bring the death penalty up for a public vote in their state. There is a similar
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‘Member states are effectively doing nothing to prevent the conflict from deepening even further…’Seven in 10 of those killed in Israel’s 50-day military offensive against Gaza in 2014 were civilians: 551 children, 299 women.The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)01
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Should European Union technocrats tell us who should do the washing up?Damn that pesky European Union. If it isn’t trying to legislate on square bananas it is interfering in our household chores. Or, this is what the mainstream press would have us believe.Members of the European Parliament25
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The global evidence is clear: active intervention is needed for male female parity in power.The record high of 191 women MPs – 29 per cent – elected to the House of Commons on 7 May was an increase of 48 women from the immediate post-2010 election results.An improvement, clearly.But the24
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Dzhokhar TsarnaevConvicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has given his first public statement since carrying out the April 2013 terrorist attack.“I would like to now apologize to the victims, to the survivors,” he told a Boston court shortly before being formally sentenced to death for
Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has confirmed death sentences for 2 suspected Saudi Al-Qaeda members convicted of murdering 4 Frenchmen in 2007, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.They had been sentenced by a special "terrorism" tribunal in January of last year, in verdicts now upheld by the highest24
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A group that opposes Nebraska's death penalty petition drive has released 2 television ads urging voters not to sign a petition that seeks to put the issue on the 2016 ballot.Nebraskans for Public Safety posted the ads on social media on Monday and said they will run on television starting
Florida's death chamberThe US Supreme Court has ruled that the drug midazolam is acceptable for use in lethal injections. 4 Oklahoma convicts had challenged the drugs use, and Florida courts stopped executions here pending the outcome. As Mike Vasilinda tells us, the ruling is now likely to open06
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‘Women often excluded from our society need compassion and care, not red tape and obstacles’.Lesley Page, president of the Royal College of Midwives, gave this great speech at the 18 May launch conference for Doctors of the World’s report into access to healthcare for children and pregnant
Palmyra: 25 Syrian soldiers killed by IS teenage membersThe Islamic State group has released a video showing the killing of 25 government soldiers in the historic town of Palmyra in central Syria.The video showed the soldiers being taken in pick-up trucks from the
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Yat Michael (left), Peter Yen Reith (right)Two South Sudanese pastors in Sudan will face trial for espionage and their lawyer has been arrested.A judge ruled on July 2 that Rev Yat Michael and Rev David Yein Reith's trial will continue, meaning that
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Florida's Death ChamberThe country's patchwork, disjointed series of execution protocols does not appear likely to be changing any time soon, even with a Supreme Court ruling this week saying that Oklahoma can use the sedative midazolam in lethal injections.In the days that followed the ruling02
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Member States are failing women throughout Europe.While it may have been on the cards for some time, the actual official announcement on 1 July by Commission Vice-President Timmermans to withdraw the Maternity Leave Directive is one more sign that the European Union (EU) and its Member States25
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Despite a series of “record highs”, women remain under-represented and -paid throughout the workplace.Recent statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the employment rate for women in the UK at a “record high”, reaching 68.8 per cent.The figures, covering the period fromSaudi Arabia's Supreme Court has confirmed death sentences for 2 suspected Saudi Al-Qaeda members convicted of murdering 4 Frenchmen in 2007, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.They had been sentenced by a special "terrorism" tribunal in January of last year, in verdicts now upheld by the highest24
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Louisiana death rowExecutions in Louisiana are on hold for at least a year because the state doesn't have the drugs needed to put inmates to death, according to a court filing and a lawyer for a convicted child-killer.Lawyers for Christopher Sepulvado and the state Department of Corrections were24
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D. TsarnaevA US federal judge will formally sentence Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death at a court hearing today when the 21-year-old former student will be offered the chance to speak.Tsarnaev kept silent throughout his trial, which ended with the jury sentencing him to death on 15
Serge AtlaouiFrench President Francois Hollande says Paris will do its utmost to save a French national who has received a death penalty over drug offences in Indonesia."France, without going into the legal debate, is doing everything to keep Serge Atlaoui alive," Hollande told reporters following