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Schizophrenics can be good mothers too.
Rich Mix is hosting an exhibition of recent works by the artist Sanchita Islam – also known as the writer Q S Lam.
She has shown at the Whitechapel, ICA and Hayward Gallery and completed over 90 group/solo shows and screenings of her films – including the show Schizophrenia Part 1 where she showed as four artists at the Truman Brewery in 2007 – and has been artist in resident at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and artist in resident at Artscape and Shoreditch House.
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Report highlights that sexual objectification of women goes beyond the topless ‘Page 3’ of the Sun’s print edition.The Sun has ended ‘page 3’ but there is still chronic misrepresentation of women and girls in the print media, and the ‘page 3’ tabloids continue to normalise and mainstream the22
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New project to address gender imbalance in the art world is – sadly – sorely needed.A new project aims to get more female artists added to major public collections in the US and UK, artnet recently reported.Known as ‘Valeria Napoleone XX’ (or simply Valeria XX), the scheme is named for its
Dylann RoofIf prosecutors convict Dylann Storm Roof and then seek the death penalty—and despite calls from Governor Nikki Haley, it’s not clear they will—the Charleston shooting suspect could be sitting on death row for a long time. The last execution in South Carolina was in 2011, despite a21
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Dylann Storm briefly appeared before a judge on June 20, 20152 days after the shooting deaths of 9 people during a Bible study at a Charleston church, Republican Gov. Nikki Haley made a bold public statement: The gunman "absolutely" should be
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Five British citizens are facing execution for drug offences in Pakistan amid a surge of hangings in the country.The existence of the 5, including 1 woman, was disclosed in the Pakistani parliament by interior minister Chaudhry Nisar.But he did not release further details - even their names20
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Dylann Roof appeared in court in a video feed from a nearby jail.The prosecutor who will pursue the case against the gunman accused of killing nine people inside a historic church in Charleston, S.C., said Friday she has not
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Watching a public hanging in Iran (file photo)The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged at least 32 prisoners on the verge of the holy month of Ramadan.On Tuesday, June 16, 25 prisoners were collectively hanged in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj. Prior to that, on
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Football today is a high profile, corporate affair driven by vast sums of money.But the game is in trouble.Premier League footballers command astronomical fees, fans are sidelined as ticket prices skyrocket, and recent corruption scandals have rocked FIFA to the core resulting in the18
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One in three women will have an abortion, but it’s this giant secret that very few talk about.Online community Mumsnet selected the Abortion Support Network as part of its Giving Week 2015 – a charity dedicated to helping Irish women access safe abortion.This means that a tiny12
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Gathering signatures to stop the repeal of the death penalty in NebraskaLINCOLN, Nebraska — Death penalty opponents are joining forces to oppose a ballot campaign that could reinstate capital punishment in Nebraska, the new coalition announced Thursday.Nebraskans for Public Safety
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Alex Tsai (蔡正元) yesterday proposed holding a referendum on "allowing the death penalty," to be held on the same day as next year's presidential election, following recent political discussion over the use of the death penalty.Tsai said that the capital22
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At a Johnston, Iowa, gun range on June 20 Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the attack on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston shows the need for the death penalty, not gun control.He made clear that we should be punishing the individual who commit such crimes, rather than
Florida death chamberA man on death row for the murder of a Pasco County waitress will soon walk free.The Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday that there wasn't enough evidence to convict Derral Hodgkins for the 2006 murder of 46-year-old Teresa Lodge.Lodge was found dead in her Land O'Lakes22
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Serge Atlaoui and his Indonesian lawyerAn Indonesian court has rejected an appeal by French drug convict Serge Atlaoui, who was due to face the firing squad with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran."We reject the challenge by the challenger," presiding judge Ujang Abdullah told the State21
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Pennsylvania's high court says a man convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer can't be executed because he has an IQ of 74.The state Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that Edward Bracey's below-average intellectual functioning made him ineligible for the death
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Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu is not far from matching a new record: since he became CJI on 28 September 2014, he has confirmed the death sentences of 10 persons in 5 cases.This year alone, Dattu presided over apex court benches that confirmed 8 death sentences in 4 cases confirmed Leggi20
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Lindsay Sandiford in her Kerobokan death row cellJakarta. A recent meeting between the UK ambassador to Indonesia and the Indonesian government did not touch on the fate of a British grandmother who is on death row in the country for smuggling drugs, the minister
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On the same day Nebraska expected to get lethal injection drugs from India, a state prison official said Thursday that the shipment had not yet been sent.A new delivery date for the disputed lethal drugs has yet to be determined, said James Foster, spokesman for the Nebraska Department of19
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The performances may have concluded but the work will continue.‘Anniversary—an act of memory’ was as series of solo, collective and multi-lingual recitations from memory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.It was a performance series in 60 Acts led by Monica Ross and Co-Recitors and12
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Raif BadawiThe Quebec government has granted imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi a selection certificate, a first step meant to speed up his immigration process."Quebec is behind Raif Badawi," said Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil, who used a special discretionary power to grant the12
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Article 9: no one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.Protesters joined campaigners demanding the closure of Yarl’s Wood detention centre on 6 June.Over one thousand people made their way to a rally outside Yarl’s Wood detention centre, near Bedford – in the middle of
New Zealander Antony De MalmancheProsecutors say they will not be seeking the death penalty in the trial against Antony De Malmanche, the Kiwi accused of smuggling methamphetamine into Bali.3 News reported prosecutors would not be seeking the death penalty, and instead argued he should be jailed
The challenge now is converting “political will into concrete actions and protections on the ground.”In an effort to boost the global fight against the horrors faced by women and girls in zones of conflict worldwide, the United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution to commemorate22
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A United Nations investigation has found “serious violations of international humanitarian law” that “may amount to war crimes” by both Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip during their bloody battle last summer.Areport released on Monday in Geneva by a commission of the United21
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Gathering signatures to stop the repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska.Nebraska voters can expect to hear a lot about the death penalty this summer from influential people in their communities, from their local church pastor to the county sheriff.
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The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has learned that Hesameddin Farzizadeh, a 23-year-old former nuclear physics student, has been sentenced to death for apostasy by the Criminal Court of Meshkinshahr in Ardabil province.A source with knowledge of the case indicates that Farzizadeh20
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The death penalty could be abolished if a Bill proposed by an MP becomes law.An MP has drafted a Bill whose enactment would result in the repeal of the death sentence from Kenya's laws and stop the accumulation of death-row prisoners.This would be by removing death as a kind of punishment from19
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The Adjustment Center cells housing death row inmates inside San QuentinA group of death row inmates has sued the state for keeping them in solitary confinement for years or even decades, locked in windowless cells with no
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‘The very existence of adult education is in jeopardy’.As part of the ‘love further education’ – #lovefe – campaign to save adult education from the proposed 24 per cent cuts to the England lifelong learning budget, a lobby of parliament at Westminster was held on 16 June 2015.The18
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“No city can be smart and sustainable if half of its population is not safe and lives in fear of violence.”Sexual harassment and other forms of sexual violence in public spaces are an everyday occurrence for women and girls around the world—in urban and rural areas, in developed and developing12
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MEPs’ mounting TTIP opposition scandalously silenced ahead of knife-edge US vote.By Molly Scott Cato MEP.Faced with a possible shock rejection of TTIP by MEPs, Brussels simply cancelled the vote this week – and now Washington moves swiftly to speed up the publicly unpopular trade deal.For a12
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‘Taking the government’s efforts to end the appalling scourge of sexual violence in conflict to the next level’.The Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the appointment of Baroness Anelay, Foreign Office Minister of State, as his new Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in11
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HARRISBURG, Pa. —A divided Pennsylvania House of Representatives weighed in Wednesday against Gov. Tom Wolf's practice of issuing reprieves to death-row inmates scheduled for execution, passing a resolution that urged him to reverse the policy.The Republican-controlled House voted 119-71 in favor