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Helping change the way the food companies that make your favourite brands do business.
In 2013 Oxfam launched the Behind the Brands campaign, which used consumer power to hold the world’s largest food and beverage companies to account for the impact their business has on the world and its people.
These are the companies that make a large portion of what you buy every day.
Twice a year, Oxfam takes a look at publically available information on the agricultural sourcing policies of the top ten food and beverage companies.
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Two death row convicts were hanged on Tuesday in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a media report said.Jafar, convicted of a dual murder in 1997, was hanged in Sahiwal Central Jail, Dawn online reported.He was sentenced to death in 2000. Jafar was scheduled to be hanged on March 25, 2015 but his07
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‘The nearest thing to gender balance in the history of British democracy’.The positive coverage of the female politicians in last week’s leaders’ debate shows that it’s high time there were more women in politics.Much of the media analysis of last week’s leaders’ debate on Channel 407
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Public hanging in Iran: Medieval and barbaric punishmentsWhile the number of executions worldwide is decreasing, some countries are continuing to execute hundreds of prisoners every year.Executions worldwide are down almost 22 % to 607, according to a recent Amnesty International report, but that06
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Boston Marathon bombing finish line(Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev "wanted to punish America" when he killed three people and injured 264 with a pair of homemade bombs at the 2013 race, a federal prosecutor said on Monday.In closing arguments before a jury decides
Shujaa GrahamShujaa Graham, 64, will discuss his journey from death row to freedom on Wednesday, April 8, 7 p.m., at Chestnut Hill College's Third Annual Forgiveness Day, sponsored by the college's Institute of Forgiveness and Reconciliation.Since 1973, 151 people in 26 states have been exonerated
Public spending to investigate and prosecute Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes has surpassed $2.2 million, weeks before opening statements in his trial, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.That figure does not include how much it has cost to defend Holmes, who is
A. Chan and M. Sukumaran: "The worst in the worst is expecting the worst."A Jakarta court is due to decide whether it will allow Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan to challenge the decision to deny them clemency.The unusual appeal in the state administrative court is likely the pair's04
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Medieval and barbaric: a Burmese woman, Laila Bint Muttalib Basim,was beheaded in the holy city of Mecca in January 2015. More here.Migrants and impoverished Saudis are overwhelmingly the victims of executions, which have risen dramatically since 2013Saudi Arabia is on course to execute record03
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For the second time in three years, lawmakers in the state Senate narrowly voted to repeal the death penalty, setting up a fight in the House, where police groups and the chamber's top Democrat will oppose the effort.The Senate voted 11-9 on Thursday in favor of repeal after about an hour of02
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Public execution in IranThe latest report on the death penalty by Amnesty International indicates that 607 recorded executions have been carried out in 22 countries around the world in 2014, a reduction of almost 22 % compared to the previous year.The reported executions were carried out in Iran02
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In a single year, it executed more people than the rest of the world combined.But exactly how many death row prisoners have been killed in China remains top secret.Amnesty International estimates at least 1000 people were executed by the Asian powerhouse in 2014 alone.In its Death Penalty 201407
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Jakarta: Indonesia's Constitutional Court has no power to alter the death sentences of Bali nine organisers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan or make any ruling on their case, says Indonesian law expert Tim Lindsey.Instead, lawyers for the two men hope Indonesian President Joko Widodo will come07
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Somalia executed three Islamist militants on August 3, 2014.Even though the last official execution in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is known to have taken place in 2003, the country continues to reject recommendations to abolish the death penalty.This is indicative of trends across
The Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty of condemned war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for killing 144 villagers at Sohagpur village in Sherpur during the 1971 Liberation War.A 4-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice SK Sinha passed the order rejecting
Zhou YongkangChina's former security chief Zhou Yongkang was charged Friday with bribery, abuse of power and disclosing state secrets, authorities said, making him the most senior official prosecuted in decades and setting the stage for a dramatic trial.Zhou -- seen as an adversary of President Xi06
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Andrew Chan, Myuran SukumaranAndrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, now face another excruciating wait while the appeals of other foreigners condemned to death for drug-related crimes are heard. Indonesia's Attorney-General, Muhammad Prasetyo, has said that all 10 - including Chan and Sukumaran
A new law passed by the legislature sets protocols for carrying out the death penalty in Arkansas.Many, including the Arkansas Department of Corrections, are concerned about potential lawsuits as the state moves forward with lethal injections.One of the main points of contention will be the drugs05
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The Iranian regime's henchman in the city of Zabol (southeastern Iran) secretly hanged a man on Saturday in the city's main prison.The victim identified as Amir Qaemi, was transferred to isolation last Wednesday to await his execution. He had been sentenced to death on drug related offences.The03
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Anthony Hinton, just after his release from jail on Friday, March 3, 2015.Anthony Ray Hinton was one of Alabama’s longest-serving death row inmates, having spent more than half his life incarcerated. Now, after three decades of insisting that he is innocent in the 1985 murders of two men, the02
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Move not expected to trigger state legislative action any time soonSince the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the state of Texas has executed more than a third of all inmates in the nation.But Texas and 7 others that use pentobarbital - a sedative and sleep-inducing drug -
How widespread is the use of the death penalty?55 countries are known to have sentenced at least 2,466 people to death in 2014 - a 28% increase from 2013. This is mainly due to a spike in death sentences in Egypt and Nigeria.Amnesty International also recorded 607 executions in 22 countries02
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Death Chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterA prominent human rights group hopes the decision to release the world's longest serving death row inmate in Japan will spur greater debate in about capital punishment in the country and spur reforms.Amnesty International spokeswoman Chiara Sangiorgio said07
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia has beheaded one of its own citizens after sentencing him to death on charges related to drug trafficking.The Saudi Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency that the man known as Saleh al-Yami was
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Firing-squad execution in ChinaThe planned executions of nine prisoners on death row in Indonesia has drawn focus back to the contentious political and social issues of capital punishment around the globe, but most particularly in Asia where it is still widely used.This article will look into some
(Reuters) - Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev followed his older brother's lead in carrying out the 2013 bombing that killed three people, rather than acting on his own motivation, one of his attorneys argued on Monday.Tsarnaev, 21, could be sentenced to death if a jury finds him06
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This week, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously ruled that death row inmate Jeffrey Havard can proceed with an evidentiary hearing to challenge his murder conviction. Havard was convicted in 2002 of killing his girlfriend's 6-month-old daughter. Havard claims the girl slipped from his arms as05
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Sister Helen PrejeanATHENS—The country’s preferred method of executing prisoners relies on increasingly hard-to-find key drugs. To make up the shortfall, state executioners turn to compounding pharmacies to acquire new combinations of the lethal drugs.In a talk at the Catholic Center at the05
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A court in the southern province of Binh Duong on Friday gave 2 brothers death penalties for trafficking over 210 kilograms of heroin in one of the province's biggest drug cases.Le Dinh Kiem, 33, and his brother Le Van Hanh, 41, were both convicted of trafficking drugs - a charge that
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UN Human Rights Committee deplores Indonesia's response to its call to stop executions for drug-related crimesThe UN Human Rights Committee has given Indonesia the lowest possible evaluation for its failure to respond to the Committee's call in 2013 to stop executing prisoners for drug-related03
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What does the Stormont House Agreement mean for women in Northern Ireland?By Goretti Horgan.The Stormont House Agreement ended a political crisis, but it brings women no closer to economic equality or equal participation in building a sustainable peace.The Stormont House Agreement (SHA) was
An alarming number of countries resorted to the death penalty in a flawed attempt to stop crime and terrorism in 2014.China, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan, all executed people accused of “terrorism”.Death sentences jumped by more than 500 in 2014 compared with the previous year, largely because Egypt02
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Anthony Ray HintonAnthony Ray Hinton, who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row, will be freed Friday morning after prosecutors told a judge they won't re-try him for the 1985 slayings of two fast-food managers after new testing couldn't match crime scene bullets to a gun found in Hinton's
Alyaksandr Hrunou was executed in October 2014 for a 2012 murder.Belarus, recent host of the Minsk Ceasefire summit, was the only country in Europe and Central Asia to execute prisoners last year. But, after reintroducing capital punishment in territory they hold, pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels have