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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 tiny abortion-support charity has received the support and backing of behemoth Mumsnet, the largest online community of women in the UK.
Mumsnet users selected the Abortion Support Network as one of five charities to raise money for as part of the Mumsnet Giving Week 2015.
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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
A LAWSUIT challenging Virginia’s automatic use of solitary confinement for death row inmates is on track after a federal judge refused the state’s request for dismissal. It is good this issue will get the hearing it demands. Even better would be for the state to take to heart the judge’s admonition11
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Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy have teamed up again to prove once and for all that women are funny.Four years ago Paul Feig’s film ‘Bridesmaids’ was hailed as a feminist triumph, on the basis that it had an all-female lead cast and focussed on female friendships.However for me, the feminism10
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Eric Casebolt, the Texas police officer who was caught on video pinning ateenage girl to the ground and pulling his gun on others at a pool party, hasresigned from the McKinney Police Department. (YouTube)IN a 1948 speech to fellow Dixiecrats, Strom Thurmond famously declared that the entire United10
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Menstrual hygiene is clearly not a “luxury”. Let’s stop taxing it like one.So, last week I had my period. Instead of tearing up some rags or locking myself away to contemplate my shameful uncleanness… I bought a pack of sanitary pads.Pretty extravagant of me, I know. Like indulging in a10
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Petition circulators hit the sidewalks Saturday to begin gathering signaturesto stop a repeal of the death penalty in Nebraska. (Ph: Lincoln Journal Star)LINCOLN — Get ready to be approached soon on street corners across the state
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Richard StrongA Missouri man who killed his girlfriend and her young daughter during an argument more than 14 years ago was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday night after Governor Nixon denied a clemency request that heavily relied on Strong’s 14-year-old daughter, Alyshia, who was three
Alfred Brown was released from the Harris County Jail, Texas,Texas on June 8, 2015 (Photo: Houston Chronicle)Alfred Dewayne Brown had spent more than a dozen years behind bars, many of them sitting on death row, so he had learned to bide his time.The latest two were spent in jail in Harris
Shafqat HussainThe execution of a Pakistani man convicted of manslaughter has been postponed hours before he was due to be hanged, prison officials say.It is the fourth time Shafqat Hussain, who was found guilty of kidnapping and killing a child in 2004, has been given a stay of execution.His12
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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 favor11
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Pakistan: an execution frenzyJune 11, 2015: At least two murder convicts were executed in Faisalabad and Haripur, raising the total number of executions to at least 161 since Pakistan reversed the self-imposed moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014 after the Taliban school massacre11
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Times may be dark for FIFA, but the women’s game is stronger than ever.Amid all the recent FIFA furore, the biggest ever Women’s World Cup has been getting under way.Hosted by Canada, this seventh edition of the tournament features 24 teams – like the men’s event – for the first time, with10
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Announcing the publication of a ground-breaking, myth-busting paperback!The What The Frock! Book of Funny Women, written by Jane Duffus and with a foreword by Lucy Porter, puts an end, once and for all, to the tired idea that women aren’t funny by providing countless examples of10
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Are histories of political struggle being erased?The organisers of London Pride have revoked UKIP’s invitation to the LGBT parade taking place on 27 June this year. They have also relegated trade union members from the front.But the corporate sponsors retain their headline positions at the10
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Two men were hanged in public in Shahr Babak, Iran, on June 9, 2015Iran Human Rights, June 10, 2015: According to the Iranian state media 13 people have been executed in different Iranian cities.Two men were publicly hanged
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The music business is “a male dominated industry with a juvenile perspective on gender and sexuality”.In recent months Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter Charlotte Church has become an outspoken feminist and anti-austerity activist.Looking at her life, it’s not hard to09
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The Pakistani authorities are planning tomorrow (Wed) to execute a prisoner who was convicted as a juvenile on scant evidence – hours after a stay prevented the hanging of Shafqat Hussain.Aftab Bahadur Masih was arrested at the age of 15, and tortured by police into giving false evidence. His08
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Romell Broom survived a botched executionattempt in Ohio, USA, in September 2009.Ohio’s unusual pending death-penalty case, involving an inmate the state already tried but failed to execute, will be argued on Tuesday before the Ohio Supreme Court.Attorneys for Romell
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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 capital11
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The Nebraska Sheriffs’ Association has voted unanimously to back a petition aimed at restoring the death penalty.The group met on Wednesday morning in Grand Island at the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center.“It’s important because of the public safety issue,” said Grant County Sheriff Shawn11
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Zhou YongkangHONG KONG — Zhou Yongkang, China’s former domestic security chief, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for accepting bribes, abuse of power and revealing state secrets, according to Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency.He is the most senior official to be convicted of corruption11
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‘The focus must change and should be on the perpetrator.’The Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour Based Violence Risk Indicator Checklist (DASH RIC) is a tool used by police services and partner agencies throughout the UK to ensure early identification, intervention and10
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Meth bust by BNN agents in Indonesia (File photo)Jakarta. Police in East Java say they will fire an officer accused of involvement in trafficking 13 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine – but only if he is convicted of the offense.Insp. Gen. Anas Yusuf, the provincial police chief, said thereShafqat HussainJust hours after innocent juvenile Aftab Bahadur was hanged in the early hours of this morning, Pakistan’s Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal for Shafqat Hussain - who was convicted as a juvenile and sentenced to death based on a ‘confession’ extracted after days of10
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Aftab BahadurThis morning at 0430 Pakistan time (0030 UK time), Aftab Bahadur was executed in Lahore, after the Pakistani authorities refused to allow his lawyers to secure key evidence that Mr Bahadur was innocent.Mr Bahadur was just 15 years old when he was sentenced to death for murder09
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Michael T. SlagerA former police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was indicted Monday [June 8, 2015] by a grand jury on a murder charge in connection with the April shooting death of Walter L. Scott, which was recorded by a passer-by and became a resonating symbol in the national
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Call for a parliamentary inquiry assessing the psychological impact of austerity.Austerity policies have damaging psychological costs, both increasing mental distress in the present and storing problems for the future.This can be demonstrated with robust and well-established psychological08
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Not again. And again. And again.By Nils Muižnieks, Michel Forst and Dunja Mijatović.On 12 June the first European Games begin in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. More than 6,000 athletes from 50 countries will run, fight and jump for medals, igniting the passions of millions of Europeans.We