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A dynamic platform for knowledge sharing and knowledge creation on the topic of women’s economic empowerment.
Today 4 out of 10 workers globally are women. Yet the majority of women have insecure jobs, earn on average 20 per cent less than men, and do most of the unpaid work.
Raising female employment to male levels could raise GDP by up to 34 per cent, and economically empowered women improve workplace performance, raise agricultural productivity, increase household income, and raise healthier, better-educated children.
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Iran Human Rights, June 8, 2015: According to reports by reliable sources, 11 prisoners were hanged in the Ghezelhesar prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) early Monday morning.On Saturday IHR reported about the transfer of 25 prisoners to the quarantine of the Ghezelhesar prison for execution.The08
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Jakarta. Indonesia’s Justice Ministry has fired a second prison guard in the space of a week for alleged drug dealing, and this time stripped him of all his benefits.Imron, 53, was symbolically stripped of his uniform at a ceremony on Monday by Justice Minister Yasonna Laoly, following his arrest
Raif BadawiSaudi Arabia's Supreme Court has upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years of imprisonment on blogger Raif Badawi, despite a foreign outcry.Speaking from Canada, his wife Ensaf Haidar told news agency AFP, "this is a final decision that is irrevocable."In March, the kingdom
Tariq Aziz (left) and Saddam Hussein (center)Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)Tariq Aziz, the imprisoned former Saddam Hussein lieutenant who served as a public face of the Iraqi dictator's government until the regime was toppled in 2003, died Friday of a heart attack at a hospital, two officials in the Mideast05
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Europe’s and America’s best golfers battle it out again in September.One of the great events still to come this year is golf’s ultimate team tournament, the Solheim Cup.The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the04
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Is this the proof we’ve all been waiting for? A recent study by Privilege Insurance suggests that women are in fact better drivers than men.It has been a well ingrained societal belief that women are not only bad drivers but generally of an inferior standard in comparison to men for many
Erecting gallows - Pakistan has ended its moratoriumon the death penalty after school attack.The Pakistani government appears to have carried out 150 executions since resuming hangings in December – taking the country far beyond the US and
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Shafqat HussainA torture expert has called for an independent medical assessment of a Pakistani sentenced to death as a child and set for execution next week, who was tortured by police into ‘confessing’.In a statement given to his lawyer, Shafqat Hussain, whose execution date has been set for03
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He used those words ‘at a time in his life when he didn’t know any better’.Rapper Snoop Dogg has said his attitude towards women has changed and he will never use derogatory words such as ‘whore’ when referring to women in his lyrics again.Snoop has had a long career in hip hop, starting back03
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Lester BowerOn Wednesday, the state of Texas plans to do something it has been trying to do for decades: Execute Lester Bower.Bower, 67, has spent nearly half of his life on death row. He was convicted of shooting and killing a man while attempting to steal an ultralight
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San Quentin's brand new death chamberCalifornia's death penalty system, dormant for nine years, might soon move slowly toward resuming executions.As part of a court settlement reached on Tuesday, the state's corrections department agreed to unveil a new execution method by the fall that will be08
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Rodrigo Gularte[Click here to Google translate the following article into your own language] O ativista de direitos humanos Haris Azhar é diretor da Kontras (Comissão para os Desaparecidos e Vítimas da Violência), ONG indonésia que se dedica aos casos de violação de direitos humanos e inclusão
Leading rights groups Amnesty International, Child Rights International Network, Defence for Children International, Human Rights Watch, Redress and Reprieve have called on the President of Pakistan to grant clemency to Shafqat Hussain, who is due to be hanged on Tuesday - despite being convicted05
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James Holmes during his July 2012 court appearance (CNN)It's first time the public has heard Holmes talk about the now-infamous mass shooting, one of the worst in recent history. After his arrest, he ended police questioning after eight minutes by asking for a lawyer.
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Nebraska Governor Pete RickettsAfter his state abolishes the death penalty, Governor Pete Ricketts vows to apply it to the ten inmates still on death row.“A punitive impulse has controlled criminal justice in America for almost half a century,” Columbia law professor Robert Ferguson writes in his05
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But other choices could have been made and still could be made.Women have had to and will continue to pay the price for austerity measures, as the new governments proposed cuts threaten to perpetuate gender inequality.Earlier this year it was revealed that 85 per cent of the government’s04
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But this is worlds away from the school playground.August will see 10 days of the highest level sport at the Netball World Cup.Forget what you think you know about netball, because the odds are the Netball World Cup will bear no resemblance.Netball is one of the big sporting success stories04
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Deputy governor of South Kalimantan, Rudy Resnawan, welcomes thesix migrant workers rescued from Saudi Arabia's death row.June 3, 2015: Six Indonesian migrant workers sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia were
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Sick crowd gathered to watch ISIS murder three gay men in Mosul, Iraq.The group known as Islamic State (ISIS) has executed three more men for homosexuality in its Iraqi stronghold.The terrorist group released shocking images this week showing a number of men
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June 3, 2015: A double murder convict was executed at the Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore.Javed alias Jeeda had killed two persons, Qasim and Siddiqui, in Cantt Kechhri area of Lahore on 19 September 1987. Meanwhile, death warrants of three condemned prisoners of Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi were03
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Serge Atlaoui and his Indonesian lawyer during a hearing on April 1, 2015.An Indonesian court Wednesday once again postponed the hearing of an appeal by a Frenchman on death row, indicating the country's slow-moving justice system could delay his execution for some time yet.Serge Atlaoui, 51, had08
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Serge AtlaouiAn expert called by Serge Atlaoui's lawyers tried on Monday to convince the Jakarta Administrative Court to examine the appeal of the Frenchman sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking,The court has set a new hearing for June 15. The defense and the prosecution will make07
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June 5, 2015: Six executions were conducted in the evening, one week after the brutal murder of a schoolgirl, media reports said. Media reported that three death row prisoners in Taipei and one each in Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung faced the firing squad, though the Ministry of Justice failed to
Shafqat HussainShafqat was a 14-year-old boy when he was sentenced to death.He was brutally tortured for 9 days, and eventually made a false confession to make the abuse stop.His death sentence violates Pakistani and international law.The Pakistani authorities tried to execute him in January05
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Men’s fatal violence against women goes beyond domestic violence.By Karen Ingala-Smith.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released findings from the 2013/14 Crime Survey for England and Wales earlier this year.Men continue to be more likely to be killed than women, there were 343 male05
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Although the Mandela government was abolitionist, the attorney general of Witwatersrand pressed for the death penalty for two people. This, it turned out, did the world a favour. Eight months after a post-Apartheid, multi-racial government elected through universal suffrage, led by Nelson Mandela04
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Pushing an agenda from the outside, pushing the mainstream parties to pay attention.When comedian and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig announced she was leaving BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz to start a new political party, the Women’s Equality Party, she caused waves in the national media.The Women’s03
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Lester BowerHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The execution of a 67-year-old man who was convicted of killing four men more than three decades ago was carried out on Wednesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-day appeal to halt the lethal injection.Lester Bower Jr. becomes the oldest03
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England’s women aim to retain the trophy – again.Hot on the heels of the football World Cup comes the biggest prize in cricket – the Ashes.The Women’s Ashes begin on 21 July at Taunton and end at Cardiff on 31 August.For the first time both Sky Sports and BBC Radio will broadcast all seven03
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We need a total change in attitude to how statutory agencies deal with gender-based violence against women.During 2014/15, the number of incidents of violence against women recorded in Northern Ireland by the police increased by 2.4 per cent on the level recorded in the previous year.Put more03
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James E. HolmesColorado cinema gunman James Holmes told a psychiatrist that he views life in prison and execution as equal punishments but wants his life spared out of concern for his family, jurors in his capital murder trial heard on Tuesday.The disclosure from the former neuroscience graduate02
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Public beheading in Saudi Arabia (file photo)RIYADH: Saudi Arabia Tuesday beheaded a man convicted of murdering his wife, along with a Syrian drug smuggler, adding to a toll that activists called a "stain" on the kingdom's rights record.Authorities executed Saudi national Awad al-Rasheedi