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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 Yemeni airport
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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 starting24
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June 22, 2015: A Filipina who was saved from the death penalty in Kuwait is set to arrive in the Philippines in the afternoon after being detained there for 10 years, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.Marilou Ranario, who worked as a domestic helper in Kuwait was arrested and sentenced24
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Walk with us.by Kozue Akibayashi, International President, WILPFOn 24 May 2015, the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, approximately 30 women from 15 countries crossed the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), which serves as a buffer between North Korea and South Korea, and made a
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 following24
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New general interest magazine launching, written by women but for everyone.A 2014 study by research body Vida which aimed to reveal gender disparity in major literary publications, showed that female writers are seriously underrepresented in general interest magazines.This includes23
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Aasia Bibi is the first woman on Pakistan's death rowThis is the first story in a two-part series about blasphemy in Pakistan. Read the second story, about the lynching of a Christian couple, here.June 19 marks 6 years since the arrest of Aasia Noreen, also known as Aasia
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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 43
June 22, 2015: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, says people in areas controlled by the Islamic State group live in daily fear for their lives. He cited mounting evidence the group was guilty of "systematic violations of international law24
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The Police Officers' Association of Nebraska has announced their support of the petition drive to get the death penalty issue on the ballot.POAN president Rich Hoaglund says the association feels it is an important issue for public safety, as well as for the safety of inmates and corrections
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French drug convict Serge Atlaoui is escorted by armedIndonesian elite police commandos in March 2015.Jakarta -- Human rights activists and legal experts have again called on President Joko Widodo to halt the execution of drug traffickers
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