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European garment workers work long hours for wages that do not meet even their most basic needs. Earlier this year the Clean Clothes Campaign released a major report that exposed widespread human rights violations in garment factories across Eastern Europe. The report, “Stitched Up – Poverty wages
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Photographs allegedly taken atKerobokanjail show Scott Rushwith drugparaphernalia in his hands.The Herald Sun today revealed photos of Rush, 28, with drug paraphernalia in his hands while serving time at Bali’s infamous Kerobokan prison.Despite Rush’s claims to
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But it could be an incredible tool for those who are victims of “revenge porn” or harassment. The House of Lords has condemned the recent ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) as being ‘wrong in principle’ and ‘unworkable’. The ruling states that EU
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The UN estimates that more than 60 per cent of the 1,740 Palestinian dead are civilians. Writing after further international concern over the action of the Israeli Defence Forces in Gaza, Caroline Lucas, MP, said, “Reports suggesting that weapons containing components made in the UK are being used
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“His words perfectly illustrate his and the [ruling] AK Party’s attitude towards women.” Actress Emma Watson is among many who have reacted to the Turkish deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc, for claiming that women should not laugh in public. The debacle began on 28 July when Arinc made a speech
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July 31, 2014: in Sri Lanka, 8 persons were sentenced to death in two different cases.Panadura High Courts sentenced 7 persons to death, after they were convicted for killing a youth. Panadura High Courts Judge Mohammed Surthika Razim ruled death sentence regarding a murder committed in 2005 in
PHOENIX — Lawyers for an inmate who was executed last month by lethal injection said Friday that his executioners injected him with 15 times the standard dose of a sedative and a painkiller during a procedure that lasted nearly two hours before their client was declared dead.He was injected with a01
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Focus E15: the young mothers’ struggle for universal housing continues. By Kate Belgrave. For several months now, a small group of young, homeless mothers have been battling for decent and secure social housing for everyone. The mothers highlight an emerging problem facing thousands across the
With a signature on a piece of paper, convicted quadruple murderer Nathan Dunlap's life was spared.For now.A year after Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed that "temporary reprieve," Dunlap's sentence still has not been carried out. That's painful for many of the loved ones of the four01
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This poster is a horrible and unforgivable instance of victim blaming, and one that is totally unacceptable. Jack May writes: Copies of this poster have been sighted on NHS premises as part of the Home Office’s ‘Know Your Limits’ campaign. The poster reads ‘one in three reported rapes happens when
Governor Jerry Brown and Attorney General Kamala Harris should refuse to defend the state's unconstitutional system for putting people to death.Jerry Brown, then attorney general, made the right choice in 2010 when he refused to defend Proposition 8 in the appellate courts after Judge Vaughn05
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Sir Alan DuncanSir Alan Duncan, who in 2002 became the Conservative Party’s first out MP, has been appointed Special Envoy to Yemen – a country where homosexuality is punishable by death.The 1994 penal code in Yemen, which reportedly denies having any LGBT citizens, states that while unmarried men05
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Jodi Arias(Reuters) - An Arizona judge agreed on Monday to allow convicted murderess Jodi Arias to represent herself during a sentencing retrial to determine if she will face the death penalty for killing her ex-boyfriend in 2008, a court spokesman said.Judge Sherry Stephens granted the request by04
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By the end of 4 August 1914, Europe was at war. Diplomacy had failed. The tragedy had begun. It drew in people from every continent, killing millions and bringing down empires. But did we learn our lesson? All this year, writes Emma Wallis, I’ve been avidly consuming the TV dramas, the recreations
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Todd Wilingham and hisdaughter AmberCORSICANA, Tex. — For more than 20 years, the prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham of murdering his three young daughters has insisted that the authorities made no deals to secure the testimony of the jailhouse informer who told jurors that
Three Al Shabaab members were executed by firing squadon August 3, 2014 near Mogadishu (Photo: AP)(Reuters) - Three men were executed by firing squad on Sunday after a Somali military court found them guilty of
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Manila: A former death row convict refused an offer by Saudi Arabia to stay in the kingdom and chose to return home to the Philippines to be with his family.The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Dante Altizo, 36, was expected to return to the Philippines on Thursday. The DFA said the
Sister Helen Prejean (center)Longtime anti-death penalty crusader Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, has been a spiritual adviser to many death row inmates in her home state of Louisiana. She shared her thoughts on the latest executions with NAM health editor Viji Sundaram. How do01
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Mariam Ibrahim and her husband(CNN) -- A Sudanese Christian woman once sentenced to death in her native country because of her faith arrived in her new home, the United States, on Thursday.Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, her husband and two young children were greeted by a large crowd of supporters at01
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Aviation ministry has sent the draft anti-hijacking bill, which includes death sentence as a punishment, to the law ministry for vetting. To make the anti-hijacking law much tougher the aviation ministry wants to repeal the Anti-Hijacking Act 1982 and replace it with a new one."In order to
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Nearly a million working days lost to UK economy as lack of childcare forces parents out of work. New research by the Family and Childcare Trust and Netmums has exposed that almost a fifth (17 per cent) of parents had to call in sick last year in order to manage childcare during the six week
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The United States has called on China to release Uighur rights activist and economics professor Ilham Tohti, who was charged Wednesday with separatism two days after clashes in Xinjiang that caused dozens of casualties. The head of a U.S./based Uighur group said the Muslim Uighur community is05
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Three executed in public in Shiraz, IranIran Human Rights, August 3, 2014: Three prisoners were hanged in public in the city of Shiraz (Southern Iran) today August 3, reported the Iranian state media.According to the official website of the Judiciary in Fars province, the three prisoners (...)05
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Behind their glitz and glam World Cup marketing are stories that Adidas doesn’t want you to know. Garment workers who produce Adidas apparel do not get a fair share of the value they generate in the supply chain. They are not paid a wage they can live on, let alone enough to save and thus
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi authorities beheaded Monday a Nepali housemaid convicted of murdering a two-year-old boy by slitting his throat, the interior ministry said.The house maid was found guilty of "slaughtering with a knife" the Saudi toddler Osama bin Maeed al-Enzi, the ministry04
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Protection for women against all forms of violence just got better. By Hilary Fisher. Ending violence against women got a little easier from 1 August 2014. A significant milestone has been reached with the coming into force of the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and
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WASHINGTON — No one on the Supreme Court objected publicly when the justices voted to let Arizona proceed with the execution of Joseph Wood, who unsuccessfully sought information about the drugs that would be used to kill him.Inmates in Florida and Missouri went to their deaths by lethal injection
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Should Kentucky abolish the death penalty -- or does it still have a role in crime and punishment?Lawmakers discussed the controversial topic at a hearing in Paducah Friday.The hearing comes after a series of botched executions across the country. It focused new02
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A state legislator wants Alabama to resume executions using the electric chair since drug shortages have brought lethal injections to halt.State Rep. Lynn Greer, R-Rogersville, told The Decatur Daily in a story published Friday he favors electrocutions because of continuing delays obtaining01
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When Arizona executed Joseph Wood last week, witnesses said he repeatedly gasped for air during an execution that dragged on for nearly two hours. Wood's lawyers have demanded, and the state has agreed to, an investigation into whether a new and largely untested combination of lethal drugs caused
Iraqi Shi'ite militia forces executed 15 Sunni Muslims and then hung them from electricity poles in a public square in the town of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said.With Iraq sliding ever closer to all-out sectarian civil war, a car bomb exploded near restaurants and shops in31
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AIDS is now the second leading cause of deaths in young people. The first is traffic accidents. By Alice Welbourn. At the conclusion of the AIDS 2014 Conference on 25 July, Alice Welbourn is left wondering whether anything is going to change in the HIV world for young women – and their children
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, extended the stay on the execution of death penalty of Soumya murder case convict Govindachamy.The court on Thursday asked the state government to present the documents related to the case.Govindachamy had approached the court for commuting his death