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A sad reality: in 2016 women still have to actively campaign for equality in the workplace.
Equal Representation for Actresses (ERA) is the latest gender equality campaign to be launched, similar to the well-known 50:50 Parliament campaign, in a bid to eradicate gender discrimination against women in acting.
Women’s Views on News (WVoN) spoke to actress Polly Kemp, who has been heavily involved from the outset, to find out more about the campaign and what it’s like for women working in the entertainment industry.
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Pablo Lucio VasquezPablo Lucio Vasquez remembered getting drunk and high on an April evening in 1998 before leaving a party with his 15-year-old cousin and his cousin's 12-year-old friend.Vasquez later would tell detectives that as they reached a wooden shed, he started hearing voices telling him05
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Tennessee death row inmate William Stevens died Monday at the age of 60, according to the Tennessee Department of Correction.He was pronounced dead at 1:57 a.m. Monday at a Nashville hospital of natural causes, according to a press release.Stevens was convicted of especially aggravated robbery
Kenny FultsKenny Fults is a Georgia death row inmate facing execution on April 12, 2016. Because Kenny's death sentenced is contaminated by racial bias, his case is an embarrassment to our justice system. His execution must be stopped.Kenny is an African-American man who reads only on a 4th grade04
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaThis year has seen Saudi Arabia execute 82 people so far, according to new research by international human rights organization Reprieve – which suggests the Kingdom is on course to behead twice as many prisoners as last year.This week saw three executions take
The Supreme Court of BangladeshThe hearing of a petition filed by war crimes convict Motiur Rahman Nizami to review the verdict upholding his death sentence has been deferred.The matter was included in the Supreme Court's cause list for Sunday.But after Nizami's counsels pleaded for more time on02
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Texas death chamberThis month, the Supreme Court will consider whether to hear the appeal of Duane Buck, a black man from Texas who was sentenced to die for the 1995 murder of his ex-girlfriend and a man who was with her. There is no dispute about his guilt; the
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A judge who spared a 22-year-old man the death penalty yesterday in connection with a 2012 murder case expressed concern at an increasing trend of young men under the age of 30 being tried and convicted of violent crimes.Justice Indra Charles had been asked by prosecutor Uel Johnson to impose the
Boko Haram militantsA series of death sentences Boko Haram insurgents for their roles in the deadly attacks that have claimed thousands of civilians have been hailed in Cameroon as a breakthrough.However, experts warn this could rebound badly in the wake of suggestions the Nigerian Islamic01
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Muslim radicals ended a four-day sit-in in a high-security "red zone" near Pakistan's federal parliament, claiming victory after the government late Wednesday gave assurances it will not seek to amend the country's notorious blasphemy laws or show leniency to anyone convicted under them.The01
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Women, carers, BME workers and self-employed at pension disadvantage.Women have barely half the pension savings of men, according to a new TUC-sponsored report published recently.The study, carried out by the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), shows that women have, on average, £7,500 in31
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2016
Workers making our clothes continue to live in abject poverty.A recent report on Marks and Spencer (M&S) and H&M has looked into the stories behind two leading high-street brands who have made claims to be ensuring a fair living wage is possible for their workers.The results?They
April 1, 2016: A man who attacked a nursing home, killing nine people and injuring nine others in 2015, was sentenced to death by a court in central China's Hunan Province.Luo Renchu, a nursing worker, randomly attacked elderly people and staff at the nursing home after a dispute with the owner
LAHORE (Dunya News) - A death row prisoner was hanged in the Kot Lakhpat Jail Lahore on early Tuesday morning.The execution of another convict was postponed after the rival parties reached an agreement.According to details, death row prisoner Aslam was hanged for killing a man in 2003 over an old
Ohio has 22 convicted murderers scheduled for execution during the next 3 years - but no lethal-injection drugs with which to kill them.The 2015 Capital Crimes Report, required annually by state law, was issued Friday by Attorney General Mike DeWine. The report lists the status of all capital04
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The social and environmental impacts of a British exit were not being given a voice.The Green Party of England and Wales has formally affiliated itself to the ‘Another Europe is Possible’ campaign, ‘to strengthen progressive voices in the EU referendum campaign’.While leading Green Party03
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Ben QuiltyBen Quilty will leave Australia if politicians do not campaign for the abolition of the death penalty in countries like China and the United States.The Archibald Prize-winning artist and Art Gallery of NSW trustee said, with a dose of black humour, he would rather live on Indonesia's02
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Wayne DotyBRADFORD COUNTY, Fla.--A two-time convicted murderer is asking for mercy from the courts, but not for a lesser sentence. Wayne Doty, who is on death row, wants to waive his right to counsel and be executed without post conviction proceedings.The Bradford County Courthouse held a hearing01
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Inmates on death row at Luzira Maximum Prison have petitioned Parliament over what they claim is the current flawed system in the Judiciary, which sees many poor Ugandans with no financial ability to hire quality lawyers sent to the gallows.In their petition channeled through Serere Woman MP
Matthew NormanThe six remaining Bali Nine drug-smugglers jailed for life in Indonesia may soon be looking at the prospect of reduced prison sentences. On the eve of their 11th anniversary behind bars, the convicted drug couriers have a ray of hope in the form of a revised penal code, which Leggi
Around the world, a number of countries continue to criminalize atheists and humanists, with 13 having laws which enable them to impose the death penalty.It's often said that the world is becoming an increasingly secular place.Just last week David Cameron sparked backlash when he used his Easter01
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Joshua Bishop"Almost all my [Death Penalty] clients should have been taken out of their homes when they were children. They weren't. Nobody had any interest in them until, as a result of nobody's interest in them, they became menaces, at which point society did become interested, if only to kill
PESHAWAR: Two 'terrorists' convicted by military courts for involvement in attacks on security officials and civilians were executed at a jail in Kohat Wednesday, a military sourced confirmed.The Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif had signed the death warrants of Mehmood and Rab Nawaz last05
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)April 4, 2016: Saudi Arabia executed two citizens for murder, raising to 84 the number of death sentences the kingdom has carried out so far this year.Baddah al-Dusari was found guilty of killing Saudi national Abdullah al-Qahtani by repeatedly Leggi
Kho JabingSINGAPORE: In a unanimous decision, Singapore’s apex court on Tuesday (Apr 5) sent Malaysian Kho Jabing back to death row for the second time.Kho, 31, had been sentenced to hang in 2010 for killing a man by striking his head with a tree branch in a botched robbery
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President Alexander LukashenkaThe regime hopes to sell the death penalty moratorium for the highest possible price Though the EU lifted its sanctions against Belarus in early 2016, the authorities seem to remain reluctant to address a moratorium on capital punishment, Lizaveta Kasmach writes.On 1004
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But report said around three-quarters of people with mental health problems received no help at all.The current UK government is struggling to answer important questions on mental health, despite claims that it wants to parity between mental health and physical health.That is why, every day02
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Holding cells in San Quentin's new death chamberSan Quentin inmate Kevin Cooper on watching the minutes tick away on his life.This article was published in collaboration with Vice.I was supposed to be executed one minute after midnight on February 10, 2004.In the lead
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Oklahoma's death chamberThe U.S. Supreme Court has said as recently as last year, when it ruled on a sedative that's used in Oklahoma executions, that the manner in which Oklahoma carries out the death penalty is constitutional. But is the same true of the overall process?This will be the Leggi01
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A Florida appeals panel reversed a lower court and ruled that the state's pending prosecution of death-penalty cases can continue after a new sentencing law went into effect this month.The state of Florida brought consolidated case to its Fifth District Court of Appeals after a lower court sided01
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Kho JabingA Malaysian man who faces the gallows in Singapore will find out next Tuesday whether his sentence is commuted by the country's Court of Appeal.Kho Jabing, 31, who is from Ulu Baram, Sarawak faces the gallows for killing a Chinese construction worker with a tree branch back in 200801
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Conservative’s tax rises hit women hardest, Kate Green warns.By Sarah Pine.The shadow Women and Equalities minister Kate Green has criticised the government for “turning back the clock” on women’s economic equality as she published new research showing women bear the brunt of Osborne’s31
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“Liberty must continue to shine a light on abuses of power…”Human rights group Liberty has announced the appointment of its new director – campaigner and barrister Martha Spurrier.Spurrier has an exceptional track record in defending people’s rights, raising awareness of threats to
A grand jury looking into drug mix-ups during the last 2 scheduled lethal injections in Oklahoma resumed its closed-door investigation Tuesday and could issue a final report as early as this week.The multicounty grand jury directed by Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's office is scheduled to