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Leading women in the transport sector discuss women and transport. A ‘Women and Transport’ session put on by the Parliamentary Outreach team earlier this week featured four women speakers who either work in the transport industry or have ties to it. It was attended by over 50 people, mainly women who worked in or were... Leading women in the transport sector discuss women and transport. A ‘Women and Transport’ session put on by the Parliamentary Outreach team earlier this week featured four women speakers who either work in the transport industry or have ties to it. It was attended by over 50 people, mainly women who worked in or were affiliated with the transport industry, and22
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Nothing at all to do with race? If you are a human who has access to an internet connection – which seems likely given that you are currently reading this – then last week you probably noticed several things: people still like cats, Jennifer Lawrence has had a haircut, and Lily22
Nov
2013
Chinese death row inmate being ledinto a lethal injection van BEIJING: Chinese authorities on Friday executed a man who killed an infant he found in a car he had stolen, domestic media said, a murder that stirred widespread public outrage. Zhou Xijun stole a sports utility21
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WNN Breaking (WNN) Denver, Colorado, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Three women have been rescued from 30+ years of domestic slavery in London as their two 67-year-old captors have been arrested by Scotland Yard in what police say is a groundbreaking case of alleged human trafficking. The carefully
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Jonathan House – Wall Street Journal - Thursday, 21 November 2013 (originally published 20 Nov) Women have recovered all the jobs they lost during the recession. Men have not. A record 67.5 million women are working today, up from the prior peak of 67.4 million in early 2008
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On 11 November, international media reported the execution of 80 people in North Korea. The UN commission of inquiry on the human rights situation in North Korea was in Seoul a few days later to meet with some witnesses. In an open letter to the North Korean Permanent Representative to the UN in
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A chance for young women to say what they need and want. The National Alliance of Women’s Organisations (NAWO) held an event on 7 November aimed at encouraging young women to make their voices heard in the European Union (EU) and in the process revealed what young women want. Hosted as20
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Suad Abu-Dayyeh for Equaltiy Now – WNN SOAPBOX (WNN/EQ) Amman, JORDAN, WESTERN ASIA: The Human Rights Ministry of Yemen has confirmed that one of its officials has helped to prevent the wedding of a 12-year-old girl, which was due to take place earlier this month. Hiba was to be married in
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Disabled activist talks about winning the battle to save fund allowing people to live independently. The English Appeal Court has unanimously ruled that the Government misinterpreted the law when it decided to close a £320m ring-fenced fund that supports just under 19,000 disabled people
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the execution in Missouri of white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, restoring the state's plans to kill Franklin just hours after the execution was blocked. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled early20
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Transgender Day of Remembrance will be observed with vigils and other events around the world. International Transgender Day of Remembrance – 20 November - is to remember those who have been killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. International statistics compiled by19
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3 Algerians accused of abducting and killing a young man 1 year ago in the Kabylie region have been handed the death penalty, Algerian media reported on Tuesday. A 4th defendant, accused of demanding a ransom with threats, was jailed for 3 years and fined, the national APS news agency22
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An exhibition of paintings by artist and film-maker Yvette Vanson. Yvette Vanson first picked up a paintbrush in 2004, attending Putney School of Art & Design. She now paints full time and is motivated by a strong political commitment to tackling injustice, by exploring and
New Delhi: A 23-year-old youth has been sentenced to death penalty for raping and murdering his minor neighbour after inflicting head injuries by a Delhi court which said he was a "menace" to the society and "does not deserve to be kept alive". Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat21
Nov
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‘Our grandchildren and their grandchildren will look back at today’ and judge our commitment to them. Christiana Figueres is the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The World Coal Association hosted the ‘International
A 9-by-9 cell was Curtis McCarty's home for more than 2 decades. The underground cell on death row in Oklahoma meant he didn't see the sun or the moon for 16 years. He was allowed little or no human contact. Sentenced to death row for the 1982 murder of Pam Willis in Oklahoma City21
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November 20, 2013: A High Court in Effurun, Delta State, Nigeria, has sentenced a 24-year-old secondary school student, Moses Akatugba, to death by hanging for stealing mobile phones and recharge cards. Akatugba was convicted on a two-count charge of conspiracy and armed robbery in21
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The traditional family model does not guarantee Britons a route out of poverty. The ‘traditional’ (read: patriarchal) family model of the breadwinning father and stay-at-home mother is leaving children in poverty, according to new research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)20
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HOUSTON (AP) - A divided Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected an appeal from a convicted killer in a Houston case where supporters contend his death sentence unfairly was based on race. The state's highest criminal court Wednesday refused an appeal from 50-year-old condemned20
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WNN Breaking (WNN) Denver, Colorado, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: When you step into your bathroom today and sit on your own home toilet don’t take it for granted. November 19 was World Toilet Day, a day that is now for the first time officially recognized by the United Nations each year as a
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Joseph Paul Franklin White supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed Wednesday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final requests for a stay, prison officials in Bonne Terre, Missouri, said. CNN affiliate KMOV reported Franklin was19
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North Korea executed 80 people, in some cases, tying them to stakes and machine-gunning them before 10,000 spectators of all ages assembled in a sports stadium. Among the crimes: possessing a Bible. Some 80 people were publicly executed earlier this month in 7 cities in North Korea19
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Kerobokan Prison Activists have lambasted the government’s decision to execute Pakistani drug smuggler, Muhammad Abdul Hafeez, despite at the same time struggling to save Wilfrida Soik, an Indonesian domestic helper in Malaysia, from a death sentence. Bahrain, an
The Papua New Guinea Government says the people should be ready for the government to begin executing death row prisoners. Papua New Guinea's Attorney-General says the country needs to prepare for the government to begin carrying out the death penalty. PNG's parliament passed22
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The idea is that this report will be a stimulus to further discussion and debate. The Commission on Older Women, chaired by Labour’s Deputy Leader Harriet Harman MP QC and senior Labour figures including Yvette Cooper, Shadow Minister for Equalities, alongside a wide range of senior21
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Higher education unions call for second strike day. The University and College Union (UCU), Unite, Unison and the Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) have called for a second day of strike action on 3 December 2013. On 3 December members of staff and students at universities throughout the21
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Execution in China China's highest court has issued a directive aimed at stopping the widespread practice of extracting confessions through torture. The Supreme People's Court said Wednesday in a microblog post that "freezing, hunger, drying, scorching, fatigue and other21
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The ACLU of Colorado estimates the cost of a death penalty trial to be $3.5 million dollars as opposed to a trial seeking life without parole, which costs around $150,000. The difference, according to the ACLU, is enough to pay over 70 firefighters or teachers for a year, or to provide20
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Aisha Habli for CGN – WNN Improve It (WNN/CGN) Beirut, LEBANON, WESTERN ASIA: The glow of the Arab Spring wore off in the media a while ago. Violence, internal division and widespread frustration have replaced the hopeful scenes of youth standing up to demand change. But have youth really
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WNN Justice (WNN) Jerusalem, ISRAEL, WESTERN ASIA: Mistreatment of West Bank children who are brought into custody by Israeli military forces has revealed a pattern of “ill-treatment” says UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund in a recent report outlining the problems for
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Feminism and equality activism. Why feminism must address all forms of discrimination. by TinaPJ “My feminism is nothing if it is not intersectional” said someone very famous and wise (probably, a brief internet search has revealed nothing so if no-one can be found to which this20
Nov
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‘Bystander Programmes’ are an innovative approach to challenging gender based violence. Most of us are not ok with sexism and homophobia, but many of us lack the confidence, knowledge or skills to challenge it. We may not be perpetrators or victims of gender based violence, but
Former President Pratibha Patil Former President Pratibha Patil's decision to commute death sentence of 5 prisoners in child rape cases has come under judicial scrutiny with the Supreme Court on Monday issuing notice to the Centre on a plea seeking to set aside the
Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shooting case want defendant James Holmes to undergo further evaluation of his sanity, according to court records made public Monday - a development that suggests the first examination might have found he was insane. The findings of the first evaluation