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Here are some of the reasons why we still think it is important to protest about the Miss World contest. We have nothing against women who choose to take part in beauty contests, however, we would say that the issue is not as simple as one of individual choice. Basically, because holding beauty contests has […]
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Here are some of the reasons why we still think it is important to protest about the Miss World contest.We have nothing against women who choose to take part in beauty contests, however, we would say that the issue is not as simple as one of individual choice.Basically, because holding beauty18
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaKhan’s case brings to 83 the number of foreigners and Saudis executed in the kingdom this yearRiyadh: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom’s latest execution of a foreigner.Mohammad Gafour18
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The Summit represented a unique moment in our collective efforts to end the use of rape and sexual violence in conflict. What now? Government representatives from over 120 countries, over 1,000 experts, faith leaders, youth organisations and representatives of civil society and international
Government officials in Saint Lucia have rejected a request by the United Kingdom to waive its death penalty, in exchange for assistance in solving crime.Saint Lucia is part of the Commonwealth of Nations which encompasses some 53 countries, most of which were former British colonies.Saint17
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Want him to talk to you? Wear heels… The Archives of Sexual Behaviour have this week confirmed what many of us already know; women are helpless in high-heeled shoes. We can now be assured by research that men find women in heels more attractive and are significantly more likely to stop to help a
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Oklahoma death chamberFor the most part, American support for capital punishment is conditioned on humane conditions - there's an expectation that when U.S. officials execute an American, it will be done in a sanitary way that falls short of constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual16
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D. TsarnaevCourt records offer glimpse into Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's life in near-solitary confinementHe spends most of his days in "nearly total isolation," according to his attorneys, locked behind a heavy steel door in a tiny cell in the most restricted wing at Fort Devens medical prison 40 miles15
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Council of Europe: Declaration by the Committee of Ministers on the death penalty in the United States of America (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 10 December 2014 at the 1215th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)The Committee of Ministers welcomes the decision of the New Orleans Fifth15
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Texas Death ChamberThe next scheduled execution in Texas won't take place until at least January, so the book is closed on 2014, with 10 executions carried out this year in the most active death penalty state in the union. 16 prisoners were executed in Texas in 2013, and 15 in 2012.Texas is also15
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Craftivism is, very simply, political action that uses crafts and other creativity to express views. The use of art and crafts for political comment is not new, and the Craftivism Collective stumbled across this slow, methodical activism process at a stage where many of us are a bit burnt out from
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3 prisoners were hanged in the Rajaishahr Prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) yesterday, reported the Iranian media.According to the Iranian daily newspaper Shargh, 2 of the prisoners, identified as "Morteza" and "Mansour", were convicted of sexual abuse and rape of 2 young boys. They were scheduled18
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HuugjiltBEIJING — A Chinese police officer who oversaw the case of a teenager wrongfully convicted of murder and executed in 1996 has been arrested in a case that has caught national attention, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday.Feng Zhiming, now a deputy police chief in the northernD. TsarnaevBOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was seen publicly in court Thursday for the first time since he was arraigned on 30 federal charges in July, 2013.Tsarnaev was in court for the final pre-trial hearing before his trial, which is set to begin Jan. 5. Prosecutors18
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‘Women are losing out on interesting and rewarding career opportunities’. Three outstanding female engineers have been officially recognised by theInstitution of Engineering Techonology (IET) for their professional achievements and the work they do encouraging other young people to take up
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Many of the prisoners likely to be executed in Pakistan as the country resumes executions were convicted of crimes that bear no relation to a terrorism threat, Reprieve has said.According to early media reports in Pakistan, executions could start being scheduled in the country within the next 4817
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Failures contributing to victim-blaming attitudes and the erasure of women’s experiences. The media affects the way we view the world around us, making it crucial that journalists report issues responsibly. Particularly journalists at the BBC, given that it is paid for by us – the licence-fee
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2 Saudis were beheaded on Tuesday for drug trafficking and murder, official media reported, bringing to 82 the number of executions this year.The sentence against Abdulrahman bin Bakheit al-Lugmani was carried out in the western city of Mecca, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by16
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The UK’s double standards are letting down rape survivors seeking asylum. This week sees the start of a campaign for the Women’s Asylum Charter. You may remember in London this summer seeing an unlikely couple – Angelina Jolie and William Hague – on the news together. As Special Envoy for the UN
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says a Yemeni man convicted of robbery has had his right hand cut off, the first such punishment carried out in the kingdom this year.Monday's statement by the ministry said the Yemeni had committed several robberies but gave no further
Islamic State's self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated 4 men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday.The men were beheaded in the countryside east of the city of Homs by the militant group's "Islamic Police", the15
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British democracy and women’s right to live free from violence. By Sarah Green. As the general election approaches in May 2015, women’s organisations in the UK have issued the Women’s Safety Manifesto. Politicians ignore it at their peril when it comes to the vote. The last few weeks have seen some
Saudi Arabian authorities on Thursday [Dec. 11] beheaded Pakistani national Mohammad Fayad Mohammad Azam on charge of smuggling heroin into the country.A statement issued by the interior ministry of Saudi Arabia said, the kingdom was battling narcotics because "drugs cause great harm to18
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President Joko WidodoJakarta. The Attorney General’s Office said on Thursday that another convict on death row will soon be executed, bringing the total number of prisoners scheduled to face the firing squad to six.The AGO previously announced it would execute five convicts before year’s end, most18
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Eric WilliamsA Texas jury on Wednesday sentenced to death a former justice of the peace convicted of murdering a suburban Dallas prosecutor's wife in a revenge plot, with the judge saying he acted like some of the most notorious killers in recent U.S. history.The same jury that convicted Eric17
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George Stinney, Jr., 14, shortly before his execution inthe electric chair in 1944. Exonerated in December 2014.After seven decades, a black 14-year-old boy has been cleared of murder.In 1944,
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On the 2014 world day against the death penalty, Ban Ki Moon made a strong statement calling for global abolition. This declaration reflects a growing trend toward abolition, and yet 25 years after the adoption of the international treaty to abolish the death penalty, the level of ratification
Dennis McGuireThe state’s former expert witness on lethal injection should have known that a condemned inmate would suffer because of a never-used two-drug combo, the family of the inmate says in a lawsuit.The lawsuit, expanded from an earlier filing, alleges that Dr Mark Dershwitz knew inmate16
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On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Second Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aimed at abolishing the death penalty, France reaffirms its resolute and constant commitment to the universal abolition of the death16
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Survey on making changes to the current voting arrangements launched. The UK government’s Political and Constitutional Reform Committee has launched a survey asking the public for their views on how voting arrangements should be reformed. The proposals the committee is asking for views on include
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Judge overturns 1 inmate's sentence after new statement discoveredA judge this week overturned the death sentence of an Algiers man who was one of the "Angola 5," a group of Angola State Penitentiary lifers who were convicted of killing a prison guard, Capt. David Knapps, during a failed 199915
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Kalynda Davis and Peter GardnerKiwi builder Peter Gardner's chances of avoiding the death penalty in China have rapidly deteriorated with local customs officials revealing that they believe he was the owner of 2 pieces of luggage stuffed with 30 kilograms of methamphetamine.Today marks D-Day for
The name of the compounding pharmacy supplying lethal injection drugs for Texas executions must be released because it is public information, a judge ruled late Thursday.State District Judge Darlene Byrne granted summary judgment in favor of three lawyers who often work for death row inmates in12
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A 51-year-old Australian woman could face the death penalty in Malaysia after she was detained for drug trafficking.The Australian woman has been remanded in custody in the Malaysian capital after she was allegedly found to be carrying 1.5 kilograms of methamphetamine, or ice, while in transit at