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Campaign group voices its concerns as investigation into abuse at mother and child homes set up. Very disturbing allegations have emerged recently regarding excessively high infant mortality rates in mothers and children’s homes, like the one in Tuam, recently in the headlines, which were run by religious organisations in Ireland for several decades. Previous investigations […]
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The European Women’s Lobby cries scandal as the rhetoric on women’s rights and gender equality takes a blow. The European Women’s Lobby (EWL), has learned with dismay about the European Commission’s proposal to withdraw the proposed Maternity Leave Directive, as a gesture of ‘legislative
MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday reiterated its opposition to the re-imposition of the death penalty, saying it would not lower crime statistics.“Justice that kills is not justice. The imposition of capital punishment has no positive impact on crime prevention or07
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A US man has been charged with murdering his nearly 2-year-old son by leaving him in a hot car for 7 hours and could face the death penalty if convicted.Justin Ross Harris, 33, was denied bond Thursday and faces child cruelty and felony murder charges after leaving his son Cooper, 22 months
Louisiana Death RowNEW ORLEANS -- A U.S. Supreme Court justice has refused to intervene in an ongoing case about hot conditions on Death Row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.The case involves a suit filed on behalf of three Death Row inmates. It resulted in last year's
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July 1, 2014: Ugandan Foreign Ministry spokesman Fred Opolot said two Ugandan drug traffickers – Omar Ddamulira and Ham Andrew Ngobi – had been executed in China’s Guandong Province.Opolot added that Ddamulira was executed on 21 May while Ngobi was executed on 24 June in Guangzhou, a city
Former Gov. George RyanKANKAKEE – Former Gov. George Ryan regrets letting what turned out to be the last execution in Illinois proceed, he prays regularly for six children killed in a fiery crash linked to a state agency he once headed, and he's done answering questions about the marathon Leggi03
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Destructive behaviour and children being taken into care a vicious cycle. New data revealed by the BBC recently shows thousands of women in England have had more than one child taken into care. The Nuffield Foundation-funded study, led by the University of Brunel and Manchester, examined English
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Naeem Williams will not die for the violent killing of his daughter, a federal jury announced on Friday. The former Schofield soldier is instead sentenced to life in prison. During the trial, which ended in April when a jury found him guilty of the murder, Williams admitted to
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A convicted murderer and 5 other death row inmates sued Arizona on Thursday arguing the state's secrecy around lethal-injection drugs used in botched executions in Ohio and Oklahoma violates their constitutional rights. Joseph Wood, a 55-year-old sentenced to die on July 23 for 2 murders in an27
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The complexities of the climate crisis require systemic change in how we are living with each other. The Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus (WECC) has now officially launched its new website. WECC is a solution-based alliance that works to foster resilient communities, promote a post-carbon economy
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Call to abolish discriminatory laws and modify discriminatory social norms. “Cultural attitudes and gender ideologies frequently regard women as subordinate to men, or dictate that men should control women,” said Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “These attitudes may be so widely
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Help women and girls who have been trafficked into the UK find justice. Please click this link and join the Thunderclap against the Residence Test. Joy, a victim of trafficking,went to see Nick Clegg MP about her case and her fears about the residence test which would exclude people like her from
Vietnam's top court on Thursday commuted the death sentence of a Cambodian woman convicted for trafficking more than 5 kilograms of methamphetamine to life in prison. Hom Kosal, 37, was sentenced to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City last September. She appealed the sentence, producing07
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George RyanGeorge Ryan, an ex-Illinois governor and now an ex-convict, says he'd like to re-engage with the cause he left behind when he went to prison in 2007 - campaigning for the end of the death penalty in the U.S."Americans should come to their senses," Ryan said this week, in an
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A reflection ofimproving healthand a response to the rising state pension age. A study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says women in their late 60s could have a higher employment rate than men of the same age by 2020. Employment rates for women in their late 60s are currently at their
July 2, 2014: the Supreme Court commuted the death sentence awarded to a police constable for murdering his wife and two daughters to life imprisonment with a direction that the convict must spend at least 30 years behind the bars.A bench of Justices Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Dipak Misra03
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Meriam Ibrahim and her husbandKHARTOUM, July 2 (Reuters) - A Sudanese woman spared a death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity faces a new lawsuit on Thursday brought by her family to formally establish her as a Muslim, a lawyer said, in a move that could delay her departure for the27
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Ghanaians would soon be called upon to decide in a referendum on the three critical reviews of portions of the 1992 constitution which are abolition of the death penalty, declaration of war by the President and the swearing-in of the President before parliament by the chief Justice. The
John MiddletonST. LOUIS (AP) - The next Missouri inmate scheduled to die by lethal injection wants Gov. Jay Nixon to appoint an independent panel to review his clemency request under a little-used provision in state law that hasn’t been invoked in nearly two decades.John Middleton, 54, is27
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Public beheading in Saudi ArabiaSaudi authorities beheaded Wednesday two nationals convicted of raping minors in two separate cases, in one of which the culprit killed the victim, the interior ministry said. HB was found guilty of kidnapping and raping a seven-year-old boy before throwing him27
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If we tolerate conflict minerals in products, the sexual violence used to obtain these minerals will continue unabated. By Zainab Hawa Bangura, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict. The revenue from the global consumer electronics industry is
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‘Many schools have little or no Sex Ed whatsoever’. Please sign Jennifer McDonald’s petition asking two MSPs to modernise and reinforce sex education in schools: Taking into account our personal experiences, and also those of our peers who are still in school, we have noticed that we have all had
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Bristol: 10 July: Dinner for Good in aid of One25 charity at Aqua Italia, 153 Whiteladies Road, Bristol, from 7pm. One25 is a Bristol-based charity that reaches out to womentrapped in, or vulnerable to
As the Supreme Court ends its October Term 2013 and heads off for summer recess, it is worth taking a closer look at one of the sleeper cases of the term, Hall v. Florida, a case about intellectual disability and the death penalty. Though Hall received only moderate attention in the press and07
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UN Women’s new campaign to spark global dialogue and actions on women’s rights and gender equality. The ‘Empowering Women, Empowering Humanity: Picture it!’ campaign UN Women launched recently commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing which set a
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Stop trivialising women’s achievements. The vice-president of Facebook in Europe has hit out at the words the media use in theirportrayal of successful women. Speaking at a conference in London recently, Nicola Mendelsohn urged the media to change the language it uses to talk about women in
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Increasing resource and income inequalities have especially harsh implications for women. In the emerging area of corporate responsibility, disparate harm to women from business and trade policies has been largely invisible, the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law
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‘There are a number of different forms in which CSE can present itself’. A public awareness campaign on Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Northern Ireland has been launched. The campaign, The More You Know, The More You See, aims to increase public awareness around this form of child sexual abuse
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The U.N. human rights chief appealed to Iran on Thursday not to execute a woman convicted of murdering her husband at age 17. Razieh Ebrahimi, imprisoned in Ahwaz, is among some 160 people thought to be on death row in Iran for crimes committed before they turned 18, U.N. High
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Nearly 30 years after Paul C. Hildwin was convicted of strangling a Hernando County woman, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned both his conviction and death sentence, saying that new DNA evidence "completely discredits" the case used by the state.A divided court27
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The analysis and reporting done by her office had often been greeted with “stone-walling and denial”. Navi Pillay delivered her first speech as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Human Rights Council in September 2008. At the 26th session of the Council, in June 2014, and which isto be
Execution chamber and main gallowsat Tokyo Detention CenterTOKYO — Japan carried out its first execution of the year on Thursday when it hanged a man for a triple murder, the ninth prisoner to be put to death since the conservative government of Shinzo Abe took power in 2012.Masanori Kawasaki26
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There are many credible reports of the widespread use of sexual violence as torture in Sri Lanka. The UK’s foreign secretary William Hague has said the UK government will investigate claims that Tamil asylum seekers are being deported from the UK to Sri Lanka despite evidence they have been