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The global campaign against street harassment, Hollaback!, has reached Belfast. Ask most women about street harassment and straight away they’ll be able to recall at least one instance when they’ve attracted unwanted attention making their way from A to B. Or several. Street harassment is quite simply, “unwelcome or unwanted verbal, non-verbal, physical or visual […]
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Stalking is a crime that is insidious and terrifying and yet many still do not understand it. Stalkers steal lives and take lives. Both our daughters, Kirsty Treloar and Jane Clough, were murdered by their stalkers. Kirsty was just 20 years old when she was stalked and stabbed to death. She had
An attorney for an Alabama death row inmate said in a filing Friday that the state's new death penalty protocol would cause "agony" and "excruciating pain" to a condemned inmate, due to the unreliability of one of the drugs used.Last month, the Alabama Attorney General's office sought to set06
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Of the 43 fellowships awarded in 2014, just two went to female scientists. The Royal Society has promised a full investigation into the gender imbalance in its recently announced science fellowships. There is a buzz around getting women into science at the moment – which is why the Royal Society’s
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October 2, 2014: Iran has apparently dropped death-sentence carrying charges against two evangelical pastors and another believer, though the three men remain detained for their Christian activities, BosNewsLife learned.Pastor Matthias Haghnejad, Pastor Behnam Irani and Deacon Silas Rabbani from03
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Ony nine women: 19 men. The good news is that one woman takes up the new position of Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality. Following the European Women’s Lobby’s (EWL) continued 50:50 campaign for gender equality on the new European Commission, some celebration was in order when
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a passionate plea for constitutional originalism, dismissing the idea of the "living Constitution," during the 4th annual John Paul Stevens lecture on constitutional law Wednesday. The Byron White Center for constitutional law at the CU Law02
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Not in Melbourne? Here are some of the key resources on adolescents and young people from AIDS 2014. By Mikaela Hildebrand. In July this year the XX International AIDS Conference took place in Melbourne, Australia. In this blog post, we have listed sessions related to adolescents and young
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The walking scene from 'Monster's Ball' (2001)by Marc Forster, with B.B. Thornton and Heath LedgerHow does capital punishment affect the prison guards and wardens tasked with carrying it out?It was the late 70s, and Kathleen Dennehy was working at Massachusetts Correctional Institution at01
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Industry-led campaign to address shortage of women engineers launched. As newly released statistics illustrate the continuing imbalance of women in science and engineering professions, leaders of 20 of the UK’s top science, technology, engineering and manufacturing companies have written to the
Following information about the transfer of Ms Reyhaneh Jabbari to Gohardasht notorious prison for her execution, the Friends of a Free Iran in European Parliament issued an urgent press release calling for urgent action to save her life.The release says: "According to reports received from inside30
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Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention CenterIt is one of the anomalies of Japan's approach to the death penalty that a stricken conscience can bring the system grinding to a halt. At least 2 Japanese justice ministers have refused to sign execution orders, most recently Seiken Sugiura, a devout06
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For all the dismal stories to come out of Texas's justice system in recent years—defense attorneys falling asleep during death-penalty trials, thousands of rape kits left untested for years while perpetrators went free, and the nation's highest number (48) of wrongly convicted people who've been06
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Just 5 weeks after standing before a Northampton County judge and proclaiming his willingness to accept his death sentence, Ballard now says he is interested in joining a pending lawsuit that could delay his execution indefinitely.Though he insisted this summer that he is "not afraid to die,"03
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TOKYO — The Tokyo High Court on Thursday turned down an appeal against a death sentence by a man convicted of three murders in Yamagata and Tokyo.Katsumi Asayama, 48, was arrested in 2012 for murder and arson following the death of 76-year-old Michiko Otsuka in Tokyo’s Koto Ward in November 201103
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The Egyptian judge who oversaw mass death sentence cases against Islamist supporters of the country’s ousted president, drawing strong international criticism, has been removed from his criminal court, officials and the judge himself told The Associated Press on Thursday.The removal of Judge Said03
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Affordable childcare helps parents to remain in work and families to move out of poverty. The Family and Childcare Trust’s London Childcare Report is the most detailed study to date on childcare in the capital, analysing childcare provision and costs, free childcare places, and whether London
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In Arizona, 119 inmates call death row home, and the majority of them have been locked up for several decades.The last 10 Arizona inmates who were executed spent an average of more than 20 years in a Florence super maximum security facility within Arizona State Prison Complex Eyman called the
James E. Holmes and attorneyNews organizations will be allowed to broadcast the Colorado theater shooting trial using a closed-circuit TV camera already in the courtroom, but they won't be allowed to have their own cameras in court, the judge said Tuesday.Still images can be captured from the02
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FURIES, the first poetry collection from For Books’ Sake, was launched last night. Compiled following an open call for submissions that attracted over 700 entries from around the world, the anthology is edited by Eve Lacey and includes a foreword from Jenni Fagan, acclaimed author of The
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‘We believe the only way to achieve a balance in public life is by legal quotas’. A cross-party group of MSPs has called for legal quotas to ensure 50:50 representation of women at Holyrood, Westminster and in all of Scotland’s public life. From the women who joined Mary Barbour’s army to fight
A former railway worker in Thailand was sentenced to death Tuesday for raping a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train, then killing her and throwing her body out the window, an attack that sparked outrage in the Southeast Asian nation and prompted calls for the execution of rapists.The case also30
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This is too important to be left to chance. With the main party conferences beginning,the End Violence Against Women coalition (EVAW) and the Everyday Sexism Project have launched a new online petition. It is addressed to all party leaders, and asks them to pledge – before the General Election due
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Aisling Fahey takes over from Warsan Shire. Poet Lemn Sissay appointed 21 year-old Aisling Fahey as the new Young Poet Laureate for London on National Poetry Day, 2 October 2014. Acting as avoice for young Londoners, Aisling will provide comment and reflections on current events across the capital
Scott PanettiThe U.S. Supreme Court will begin its 2014-15 term on October 6.One of the cases the Court will hear during its 1st month is Jennings v. Stephens, a Texas death penalty case involving ineffectiveness of counsel and whether a separate appeal is necessary for each such claim. Oral03
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Here are the top 5 benefits. By Katja Iversen and Jill Sheffield. What is contraception good for? The answer may seem obvious: As far back as the age of Cleopatra, who used gold pellets to prevent pregnancy, women have sought ways to plan the number and timing of their children. But critics of that
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Sex without consent is rape. Devon and Cornwall Police have launched a new campaign targeted at students and young people; the idea is to help change attitudes to sexual offences. Their #NOBLURREDLINES campaign targets men and women aged between 16-37 to make clear to them that sex without consent
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The calculated, stereotyped thinking behind the Sun’s Page 3 competition. A competition launched by the Sun recently offered members of the paper’s online fantasy football club a chance to win a date with one of the paper’s Page Three models. The competition has particularly damaging implications
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Reading, interventions and screening. A moving meditation on exile, sea travel and migration. Over the next six months, Caroline Bergvall, the new Writer in Residence at the Whitechapel Gallery, will investigate how writing, reading and listening can be understood within the context of visual art
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Oklahoma death chamberThe Oklahoma Department of Corrections released Tuesday the state's new execution protocol, which was revised after an April execution went awry and became a focal point in the national debate over whether or not the death penalty is cruel or unusual punishment.The April 2902
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In the West End this week only one production in the main theatres written by a woman. I suppose I like my theatre a bit radical and a bit edgy, I’ve always thought of it as a site for enormous social change messages – think Cradle Will Rock. So I was a surprised at the […]
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New EastEnders trailer portrays strong female characters as victims and uses rape to promote the soap.
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Yong Vui Kong: A second chanceYong Vui Kong, the Malaysian who received a reprieve on his death sentence for drug trafficking in Singapore is not content with merely escaping death.His lawyer M. Ravi said that Yong wanted to take up studies in prison although that will be up to the discretion30
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Email sent to Ireland’s Minister Charlie Flanagan yesterday. Dear Minister, Choice Ireland were delighted to hear that you will be addressing the UN General Assembly [on 29 September] on the importance of states’ compliance with international law. Here is a link to the Concluding Observations by