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What they say about key issues relating to women, such as social security, employment, pensions and immigration.
Kate and Emma T at Engender have been poring over the political party manifestos to see what commitments are being made to advance women’s equality.
A few weeks ago, Engender asked all the parties to commit to the following:
1 – Repeal the ‘family cap’ and all of its exemptions including the ‘rape clause’, and commit to undertaking and acting on a cumulative impact assessment of social security;
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Do the parties advance, or reverse, an agenda that is compatible with the pursuit of tax justice principles?Tax Justice UK, the newly launched sister organisation to the Tax Justice Network, released its detailed analysis of the general election manifestos of the main political parties04
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Nebraska's death chamberA federal judge has given attorneys for an inmate on Nebraska's death row 6 months more to represent him but pressed them during a phone conference Friday about moving forward with whatever their next step will be.John Lotter, who was convicted in the killing that inspired03
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Robert MelsonA federal appeals court granted a stay of execution Friday for Robert Melson, who was scheduled to be put to death Thursday for the shootings of three fast food employees at a Popeye's in Etowah County in 1994.Melson is challenging his execution on grounds that the three-drug cocktail02
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The president’s first trip abroad also appears to have sparked crackdowns in Bahrain and Egypt.WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia this month encouraged the kingdom to expand its controversial use of the death penalty, including toward peaceful protesters, a top human rights02
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Indiana's death chamberIndiana cannot execute prisoners with its chosen lethal injection cocktail — one that has never been used in an execution in the United States — because the state did not follow proper procedures when it chose the drugs, the Court of Appeals of Indiana ruled.The decision01
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Dylann RoofIn early January, after a series of closed-court hearings, a federal judge in Charleston allowed Dylann S. Roof to represent himself as prosecutors sought his execution for a murderous 2015 rampage at a historic African-American church. Determined to block exposure of his mental health01
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William Morva is scheduled to be executed by Virginia on July 6, 2017.William Charles Morva was born in Virginia in 1982 to Elizabeth and Charles Morva. The family lived in the Chesterfield area and the kids attended local public schools. The whole family was very involved in the soccer31
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Pablo Ibar in 2009Nearly €1.1 million: that is how much Pablo Ibar, who has been behind bars in the United States for 23 years, needs to raise in order to retain a good lawyer who might prevent his execution for a triple murder that he denies having committed.
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A protest against Ahok on November 4, 2016“It’s over for Indonesia’s tradition of moderation… In ten years, Indonesia could be Pakistan.”Ahok’s imprisonment has sent shockwaves through Indonesia’s religious minorities and among moderate, pluralistic-minded Sunni Muslims. If a talented, popular
On 16th December 2012, a particularly disturbing case of gangrape and murder in New Delhi (‘the Delhi gangrape case’) set off massive nationwide protests. Widespread discussions on sexual violence in India led to significant criminal law amendments, including, the introduction of death penalty for29
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Texas' Death HouseA Texas appeals court ruled Thursday against expanding government secrecy in a case involving the public's right to know who supplies the lethal drugs Texas uses to execute death row inmates.The decision in favor of openness by the state's 3rd Court of Appeals addressed the04
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Courts are supposed to be bastions of justice. But equal justice may be thwarted for some defendants owing to language barriers.Despite all the various training seminars and guide books preparing newly registered court interpreters for the job, the current pool of interpreters are not sufficiently03
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Chinese police officers rehearsing execution proceduresAN organ transplant can be the difference between life and death for many people.For those in need of one, the wait for a call from hospital to say a match is available is an excruciating one.Sometimes life outruns them before the
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When Arkansas recently made news for carrying out a spate of executions within a brief time span, that was the first time the state had used the death penalty for more than a decade.But that's not the first time a state has taken break from executions.In fact, there was a
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Pakistan says accusatory approach is unhelpful towards efforts for peaceISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has approved execution order for 11 death row prisoners belonging to the Taliban and Haqqani Network, Afghan media quoted sources in the presidential palace as saying on Thursday.The01
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An Alabama death row inmate has asked a federal appeals court to block his execution for the slayings of 3 people 23 years ago.Robert Melson, 45, is set to die by lethal injection on June 8. His attorney, John Palombi with the Federal Defenders for the Middle District of Alabama, filed a Leggi
The Missouri Supreme Court won't review a lower court ruling that spares the state's prison system from having to reveal where it gets drugs used in executions, though attorneys pressing for the details plan more appeals using different arguments.Missouri's high court, without comment Tuesday01
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonA PROMINENT Australian barrister has vowed to renew a fight to free Brisbane Catholic Scott Rush and the remaining members of the Bali Nine in jail in Indonesia.Scott Rush’s lawyer, Colin McDonald QC, has pinpointed a new legal avenue to fight for the Bali Nine,
Leggi TuttoThe death penalty is a distraction from the real measures that India needs to take to protect women's rights to safety, writes Gopika Bashi of Amnesty International.Earlier this month in the Rohtak district of India's northern state of Haryana, two men were arrested after the body of a young Dalit
Hit and run driver wounds five others as people celebrate Kuwait National DayManama | A court in Kuwait has sentenced a Kuwaiti to death for killing one police officer and wounding five others.The crime occurred in February 2016 as the country was celebrating its National Day.Reports said that
Watching a public hanging in IranAn unidentified prisoner sentenced to death on rape charges was reportedly hanged in public in Shiraz in front of a crowd of people. Another prisoner was reportedly hanged at Khorramabad's Parsilon Prison on drug related charges.Iran Human Rights
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The number of lay judge trials in Japan for which interrogations of suspects have been recorded in full is increasing after police introduced new guidelines to avoid forced confessions, the National Police Agency says.In fiscal 2016 through March 2017, a total of 2,324 lay judge trials had the
"Scaffold" by Sam Durant at the Minneapolis Sculpture GardenSculpture tainted Dakota 38 memory, but Dakota elders say this is a teaching momentA day before what was to have been the celebrated grand re-opening of the Minneapolis Scuplture Garden, Dakota elders will oversee the
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In a blood-thirsty column clamoring for faster executions in the United States, John Steele Gordon, a writer specializing in financial and business history, asserts: “Had Hitler been captured alive, would anyone have suggested life without parole?”Yes. Me. I would have.Knowing the exorbitant02
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BERLIN — The European Union should continue accession negotiations with Turkey but a reintroduction of the death penalty would clearly put an end to the process, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday.Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2004 as part of a campaign for02
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. - A man serving a life sentence is denied an appeal hearing by Missouri’s Supreme Court, despite DNA tests proving the hair used at trial wasn’t his and the only eyewitness recanting her testimony.As 41 Action News first reported last year, Rodney Lincoln appealed his 1982 murder
Typical Texas death-row cell (Source: Minutes Before Six)Anthony Graves emerged from solitary confinement over 6 years ago to become a national crusader for justice reform, but it took a recent report by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin to add new urgency to his campaign
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Execution in Kuwait in April 2013Victim, 13, was abducted, taken to rented chalet and filmed during rapeManama: Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has sentenced seven defendants to death by hanging for kidnapping a 13-year-old mentally-retarded boy and raping him, overturning a ten-year jail sentence by a
Nikko JenkinsA man convicted of killing 4 people in Omaha in 2013 was sentenced to death Tuesday by a 3-judge panel - Nebraska's 1st death penalty sentence handed down since the punishment was reinstated by voters in November.The panel issued its ruling in the case of Nikko Jenkins, who was31
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday reaffirmed the death sentence for the only woman on death row in the state.The high court ruled 6-1 to uphold the death sentence for Donna Roberts, who was convicted in 2003 of conspiring with her lover to murder her ex-husband, Robert Fingerhut30
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"Scaffold" by Sam Durant at the Minneapolis Sculpture GardenThe Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will remove a gallows-like sculpture, following protests by Native Americans, who say it brings back painful memories of the mass hanging of 38 Dakota men in 1862.'Scaffold,' by
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The Lush “31 States” bath bombThe often-ignored issue finds a fragrant angel in Lush as it hopes to add mainstream support to every shopping bag.CHICAGO ― On a recent spring evening along the Magnificent Mile, a cluster of shoppers gathered amid heaps of organic soap and
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Pennsylvania's death chamberFive times a year, Pennsylvania corrections officials meet inside a white block masonry field house on the grounds of the prison near Penn State, and carry out a mock execution.They escort the "inmate" to the execution chamber. They strap that person onto the gurney