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Stand up for sexual and reproductive health and rights; family planning and safe, legal abortion. The Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion is on 28 September. As part of this year’s campaign, ICMA have joined forces with Ipas and International Planned Parenthood Federation – Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) with a […]
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4 sentenced to death for rape and murder ordered to pay blood moneyThe Sharjah Appeals Court has ordered 4 Emirati men, who were spared the death penalty after being convicted of murder in 2009, to pay blood money to the victim's family.The ruling was issued on Monday.The ruling was issued by
Diagram od Clayton Lockett's 2nd autopsyOn the afternoon of April 29, 2014, a vehicle arrived in the courtyard of the prison in McAlester, Oklahoma to pick up Clayton Lockett. The driver parked in the shadow of the white prison walls. His wait, it turned out, would be longer than anticipated. The23
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‘Real change for women worldwide is possible – now we want to see it happen.’ Womankind Worldwide has called on next UK government after the upcoming 2015 elections to take advantage of an unprecedented opportunity and make progress on gender equality. In a briefing with the title ‘Delivering for
27-year-old found guilty of entering S'pore with 22.24g of pure form of heroin in armrest console of carA 27-year-old Malaysian who had earlier been found guilty of bringing into Singapore 22.24g of diamorphine, the pure form of heroin, was yesterday sentenced to death.Prabagaran a/l Srivijayan
TOKYO — The chief suspect in the murder of a wealthy Swiss-based Japanese asset manager and his wife whose bodies were found buried in a vacant lot in Kuki, Saitama Prefecture, in February 2013, has been handed a death sentence.The ruling was handed down by the Tokyo District Court against22
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Hong Kong activist Father Franco Mella yesterday called on the Vietnamese government to spare the lives of 2 elderly Hongkongers on death row in the country.With support from Amnesty International, the Italian Catholic priest launched the appeal outside Mong Kok East station. More than 50019
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Judge will consider postponing executions if state, which botched execution of Clayton Lockett, proves unable to act quickly in implementing new guidelinesA federal judge said Thursday he is concerned Oklahoma will not be able to implement new guidelines and training for executions before three19
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But students feel that unwanted sexual attention, while not liked, must be tolerated. New research from thealcohol education charity Drinkaware has revealed the extent of sexual harassment experienced by young adults when they’re out, and how it has unhappily become expected. The research comes as
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Stand with women in Northern Ireland and say ‘no’ to a blatant attack on women’s health. Please sign and share this petition to ensure that Northern Ireland retain critical and essential health services. In July 2014, Mr Jim Wells MLA of the Northern Ireland Assembly put forward a proposed
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Shiraz, Iran, September 18, 2014The execution wave continues in Iran. According to the official and unofficial reports, in the last 30 days at least 95 people have been executed in different Iranian cities. This is an average of more than 3 executions everyday. Iran Human Rights urges the17
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Lisa Ann ColemanLisa Ann Coleman becomes the 1st Tarrant County woman put to death in more than 3 decadesDespite a flurry of last-minute appeals, the execution of Lisa Ann Coleman proceeded on Wednesday night at the Texas State Penitentiary Huntsville Unit.She was pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m24
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And it must address harmful notions of masculinity and present boys with positive alternatives Last year a survey of teenagers by the Sex Education Forum found that 48 per cent rated their sex and relationships education (SRE) ‘OK’ and 27 per cent rated it ‘bad’ or ‘very bad’. This year, a Metro
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James Holmes and attorney (file photo)Judge Carlos Samour said balancing Holmes right to a fair trial with the need for public access was tough. "There should be as much access as possible. But there has to be limits."The judge presiding over the Aurora theater shooting trial said Monday that the23
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The Green Party has called for real changes in the way England is governed. In the wake of the Scottish referendum, the Green Party of England and Wales has published a paper called ‘Democracy for Everyone’ which calls for a People’s Constitutional Convention. This would consider a range of topics
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The Chadian cabinet has adopted a new penal code that punishes gay sex with up to 20 years in prison.Section 361 of the code states that the punishment for anyone who has sexual intercourse with persons of the same sex is 15 to 20 years imprisonment and a fine of
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Mullahs’ judiciary chief: Who is [the UN] Secretary-General to tell us stop the executions; these words are cheap, baseless and lack reasoning. Executions for corruption on earth is an internal matter.NCRI - On Thursday, September 17, 2014, at least 17 prisoners were hanged in cities across Iran22
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In support of women’s rights and full equality between women and men. In her new role as UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, British actor Emma Watson has called on men and boys worldwide to join the movement for gender equality. The actor, who built an immense global fan-base through her role as
Pawan KumarPawan Kumar, who learned his trade from his father and grandfather, is paid £30 a month as a registered executionerThe phone call will come some time in the next few weeks, and when it does Pawan Kumar will be ready."I have already done a test run, with a sack of
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Inspirational texts about climate change. Around this time each September, thousands of students will go off to study climate change at university. But sometimes climate and environmental issues can be pretty dry. So The Carbon Brief asked 25 thinkers, writers and journalists a simple question
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Despite having the fourth-highest death row population in the country, Pennsylvania isn’t terribly good at carrying out the ultimate penalty. A third of the 184 inmates now on death row there received their sentences more than two decades ago, and at least 24 have died of natural causes before18
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Young women need to face up to the embarrassment of gynaecological health issues. It could save their lives. A new charity survey has revealed potentially dangerous knowledge gaps among UK women. Young women in the UK are, it seems, less educated than their elder counterparts about the symptoms and
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Sudan has hanged 2 people convicted over the killing of Chinese oil workers and damaging an oil pipeline in troubled South Kordofan State 6 years ago.The Sudanese ministry of Justice confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that the management of the Federal Kober Prison in Khartoum has executed the24
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Big name game companies running out of excuses for creating games with no credible female characters. New research into gaming habits in the UK has found that female gamers now outnumber men. And this growing popularity of gaming among women could mean that the industry will become more inclusive
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Kentucky officials should be prepared to explain how and why they arrived at what drugs to use in a lethal injection and at what doses, a state judge said Monday, though he didn't decide how in-depth the explanation needed to be.Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd told attorneys during a23
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More women die in climate disasters than men. Writing on her UNWomen blog, UN Women’s executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka says one example of this is found in a survey conducted by Oxfam in Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami found that in the worst impacted village, up to four women died for
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(file photo)NCRI - The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged five prisoners on Saturday in the main prison in city of Zahedan, in southeastern Iran.The five inmates that included two women citizens of Pakistan had been arrested on drug related charges.The Saturday's hanging of five prisoners in22
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‘We hope to see every party leader answer every part of our manifesto and tell us what they will do’. Since the General Election in 2010 we have seen the horrors of the Jimmy Savile scandal, the Rotherham Inquiry and ‘grooming’ trials, more than 400 domestic violence murders, and the emergence of
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After state allowed use of chair in the event of a drug shortage judge permits inmates to object to chair in ongoing lawsuitTen death row inmates already challenging Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol were permitted by a judge Thursday to amend their lawsuit to include objections to the use of19
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani who attempted to smuggle heroin into the kingdom, the interior ministry said, adding to the more than 50 people executed this year."Sanaullah Mohammed Amir was executed in Qatif governorate in Eastern Province today because he tried to smuggle a large19
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Meeting developed a set of 15 feminist principles of the internet. Earlier this year the Association for Progressive Communications, APC, organised a Global Meeting on Gender, Sexuality and the Internet in Port Dickson, Malaysia, It brought together 50 participants from six continents comprising
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‘Mobilisation to ensure more women in leadership and decision-making roles is essential.’ On her first country visit as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador, acclaimed British actor Emma Watson highlighted the need for women’s political participation and leadership at all levels. Watson’s visit to
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But A+ for profits. Campaign invites users to rate Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We need transparency and safety online. That’s why we at Take Back the Tech! are targeting the big three: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We want them to take a clear stand on violence against women (VAW) in their
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(file photo)As the wave of executions in Iran continue unabated under Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime henchmen hanged a prisoner in city of Qum on Tuesday. Another prisoner was hanged in city of Uromiyeh in north western Iran on Monday.The prisoner hanged in the main prison in city of