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Transform girls’ lives and make Britain a fairer and more equal place for girls to grow up in and flourish. In the run-up to the 2015 General Election, girls and young women are calling on politicians to listen to their voices and commit to act. The Girls Matter report consists of girls and young women […]
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Missouri Death ChamberTwo of the nation's most active death penalty states are planning executions on Wednesday, as attorneys for the inmates continue efforts to save them.Earl Ringo Jr. is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday in Missouri for killing two people during a robbery at a Columbia09
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RAWALPINDI: A district and sessions judge has ordered the Adiala Jail superintendent to hang a murder convict on September 18.Rawalpindi District and Sessions Judge Abdul Sattar had found Shoaib Sarwar guilty and awarded him a death sentence on July 2, 1998. Sarwar was accused of murdering Awais09
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Some websites are spreading myths about the affects of abortion. Some pregnancy counselling service websites are covertly pushing an anti-abortion agenda, the Guardian has revealed. Many of the websites include false information, such as linking abortion to higher mortality rates, suicide and
Victim's family demands much bigger 'diya' to pardon killerA Kuwaiti university student convicted of killing his colleague with the help of a friend in Sharjah (UAE) has offered KD100,000 (Dh1.3 million) to the victim’s relatives to escape execution, but they demanded a much higher ‘diya’ (blood08
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Henry McCollum and Leon BrownLUMBERTON, N.C. — The most memorable moment of the trial that put Henry McCollum and Leon Brown behind bars for three decades for a hideous 1983 rape and murder was a display of brilliant courtroom theatrics.District Attorney Joe Freeman Britt of Robeson
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Women call for human security not military security. Women of NATO member states and others, gathering for a demonstration against the Summit in Newport this weekend, are saying ‘No to NATO’ for many reasons. Military expenditure squanders money needed for the education, health and housing services
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Surinder KoliAn Indian man sentenced to death for murdering a girl in a case dubbed "the house of horrors" will be executed next week, officials say.In 2009, Surinder Koli and his businessman employer Moninder Singh Pandher were convicted of murdering 14-year-old Rimpa Haldar. Pandher was later
This morning, we learned that death row inmate James McVay was found dead in his cell.All signs point to suicide, as Mr. McVay was hanging from a bed sheet.That makes him the second death row inmate to commit suicide in his cell – the first was Robert Leroy Anderson in 2003 - but
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Advert ‘sexist’ and ‘gratuitous and objectified women’. American Apparel once again has an ad banned by The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for an inappropriate portrayal of women. On 2 September 2014 Women’s Views on News reported in our Media Spotlight feature on American Apparel’s latest
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Saudi police prepare a square for public floggingsin the Saudi city of Khobar in September 2009 (file photo)Manama: Police in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province said that the young men who were arrested last year for harassment have been flogged inside the mall where they verbally abused a group of03
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D. TsarnaevLawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked Friday to delay his trial until at least September 2015."We recognize that the government and many members of the public, especially in the Boston area, may want the trial to begin quickly," the lawyers said in a court09
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Henry McCallum spent 30 years on North Carolina'sdeath row before being exonerated by DNA tests.As McCollum finally walked free on Tuesday, folks in Davidson County might have remembered his face from a particularly despicable campaign leaflet the North Carolina Republican Party mailed out in
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday beheaded a Pakistani convicted of drug trafficking and one of its own citizens for murder, the interior ministry said.Saudi Bandar Khalaf al Enzi was found guilty of strangling a man to death during a dispute, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state09
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Or ‘ How a free trade agreement will affect the NHS’. Free trade agreements (FTAs) might seem a million miles from the NHS. However, FTAs are not just about the trading of goods. They also cover services and corporate rights. The Coalition Government is keen to negotiate a FTA between the EU and
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Oklahoma death chamberNew procedures to improve Oklahoma’s execution process must be implemented before the state resumes putting prisoners to death by lethal injection, the governor said after investigators presented their findings about an April case in which the inmate writhed and moaned on the08
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The UK government needs to act to ensure any rights Afghan women have gained do not slip away. World leaders met at a NATO summit in Wales last week to decide the future of Afghan security after the withdrawal of international troops. Now we have to ask our government to take action now to protect
A man is being caned in front of Al-Falah mosque in Sigli,in Aceh’s Pidie district, on FridayBanda Aceh. For the first time in eight years, five residents of Aceh’s Pidie district on Friday were caned publicly for gambling, a violation of Shariah laws enforced in the province.The public caning in05
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights, September 4, 2014: Two prisoners were hanged in the public in two different Iranian towns in the Mazanderan province (Northern Iran), reported the Iranian state media.One of the prisoners was a man identified as “Mohsen D.” charged with a05
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Capitalism is ‘the principal source of conflict between nations’. By Felicity Ruby and Edith Ballantyne. Women peace activists meeting in Zurich in 1919 understood the capitalist system of profit and privilege as a root cause of war. Women said it then, and say it now, as they tackle the perennial
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NCRI - Further reports regarding executions in recent days reveal that just on September 1, the clerical regime has executed 15 prisoners.At least 10 prisoners from Ghezel Hessar Prison of Karaj were collectively hanged. These prisoners have been involved in recent protest in prison, the reports04
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Henry McCallum and Leon BrownThe exoneration of two North Carolina men who spent 30 years in prison — one on death row — provides a textbook example of so much that is broken in the American justice system. And it is further evidence (as though more were needed) that
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The majority of young people in Spain do not oppose capital punishment, abortions or euthanasia, according to a new study, published by the Reina Sofia Center of Adolescents and Youth on Tuesday.The study, entitled "Youth and values", asked over 1,000 Spaniards aged 15 to 24 to express their
Self portrait byMyuran SukumaranFROM death row in Bali’s Kerobokan jail Myuran Sukumaran has painted portraits of the men who currently hold the young Australian’s fate in their hands.A portrait of outgoing Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), along with one of his successor Joko09
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Surinder KoliFacing execution any time this week following issuance of his death warrant, Nithari rape and killing cases convict Surinder Koli got a fresh lease of life from the Supreme Court, which at 1.30 am on Monday stayed his hanging for a week.A bench of Justices H L Dattu and Anil Leggi
CAIRO, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi may face death sentence on charges of leaking national security documents to Qatar, the official MENA news agency reported on Sunday, citing a judiciary source.The former president along with 10 others will face trial over charges
Lance Hetmer, who presided over Joseph Wood’s two-hour execution in July, hired by Oklahoma, where a separate botched execution made headlines in April.The prison warden who presided over a two-hour execution in Arizona in July has taken a job with the Oklahoma department of corrections, where a08
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Women’s Aid research shows a 32 per cent shortfall of refuge bed spaces in England. The national domestic violence charity Women’s Aid recently launched an SOS campaign calling on the government to preserve ‘the national network of specialist refuges by exploring a new model of national refuge
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Young females in the UK at risk of ending up in jobs with no career prospects and reduced earnings. The number of people in England not in education, employment or training (NEET) is high. However, despite common assumptions about who is not in education, employment or training, there are many more
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Clayton LockettA report into a botched execution in Oklahoma in April has found medical staff failed to place and monitor an intravenous line properly.Clayton Lockett, 38, died 43 minutes after he was given a lethal drug.The Oklahoma governor ordered an independent review into the case after
Public beheading in KSASaudi Arabia has executed an Iranian and three Syrians after being handed down the death penalty for drug trafficking. The convicts, sentenced to death for trying to import hashish into the Saudi kingdom, were decapitated by sword in northern and eastern Saudi Arabia on04
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Contact your MP and ask what they intend to do. The Fawcett Society recently published comprehensive new research on how women- especially those on low pay -are faring in the economic recovery. While unemployment has fallen sharply, the picture for women is decidedly mixed, with a sharp rise in
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Inter-factory matches in First World War raised money for Coventry’s wounded soldiers. A Heritage Lottery Fund-backed project has recreated a football game that first took place in 1917 between female worker’s from munitions factories. On a typically drizzly bank holiday Monday in Coventry history
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The most recently publicised case highlights the need for a next step for Project Guardian. Alongside reports and news coverage of the sexual assault of a women on a train in South East London, public transport figures show that reported sexual offences on Britain’s railways have increased by 21