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New report has suggestions for improving current practise.
A report published recently documents the findings from a series of events held in Cardiff, London, Manchester and Sheffield by Imkaan and Rights of Women to reflect on local and regional responses to forced marriage in 2015.
This project follows an earlier analysis of legal and support responses to forced marriage reported in “This is not my destiny.
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Investing 2 per cent of GDP in care industries could create 1.5 million jobs.A new report launched recently by the UK’s Women’s Budget Group for the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) shows that investing public funds in childcare and elder care services is a worthwhile investment06
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Public caning in Aceh, Indonesia (file photo)The Banda Aceh Prosecutor's Office held a public caning on Tuesday to punish 18 people for having violated Aceh's Islamic bylaws, locally known as Qanun.The 10 convicts who had been caught gambling received a sentence of eight strokes, previously04
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This report is a reality check for UK employers.28-40 is a critical age for career development – the danger zone where women are not promoted at the same rate as men.This is a problem not just for women but for companies too.A survey, the largest ever undertaken, and part of Project 28-4004
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Florida's Death ChamberMIAMI — With Florida’s capital punishment system at a standstill, the state Senate passed a compromise bill on Thursday that would overhaul Florida’s death sentencing law, allowing the state to resume death penalty prosecutions by making it harder for juries to send someone
Joseph Edward Duncan IIIThe U.S. Supreme Court has denied hearing an appeal of a man who was sentenced to death for kidnapping, torturing and killing a young northern Idaho boy after killing several of members of his family.U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson announced Wednesday that the high court had03
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The crisis is so great any ‘extra cash’ will be of little help to deprived areas.Three quarters (74 per cent) of local authorities in England are still limiting homecare visits for their elderly, ill and disabled residents to just 15 minutes, the union for public service staff UNISON said in a02
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaMarch 1, 2016: A Qatari and a Jordanian were among five people executed in Saudi Arabia, bringing to 69 the number of people it has put to death this year.The Qatari, Mohammed Jarboui, was executed in the eastern region of Al-Ahsa after being
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Florida's death chamberTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A sharply divided Florida Senate is rejecting a proposal to require a unanimous jury recommendation in death penalty cases.The Senate voted twice Wednesday on whether to require all 12 jurors to agree on death sentences.The proposal was rejected by votes
A longshot proposal for conservative Utah to join 19 states and the District of Columbia in abolishing the death penalty passed an initial vote in the state Senate Tuesday after a 5-minute presentation where no lawmaker asked a question or contested the proposal.Steve Urquhart, the Republican02
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Bali's Kerobokan PrisonThe Surabaya District Court on Tuesday (01/03) sentenced to death a female prison inmate for controlling a drug syndicate from behind bars with the help of a police officer and his wife, who also received the death penalty.Tri Diah Toriassiah, also known as Susi, was serving01
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Execution of Mumtaz Qadri, who killed Punjab governor Salman Taseer in 2011, prompts muted celebration and protests.The execution of a man who killed the head of government of Punjab province over his call to reform strict blasphemy laws has revived the question of capital punishment in06
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THE family of a Scots grandfather held on death row in Pakistan for six years have called for Government action after a courtroom bid to free him collapsed last week.Mohammad Asghar, 71, who is frail, blind and mentally ill, was convicted under the country’s controversial blasphemy laws.His06
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Babak ZanjaniIranian billionaire businessman Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, justice officials say.He was arrested in December 2013 after accusations that he withheld billions in oil revenue channelled through his companies. He denies the allegations.Zanjani was
The government will continue to hand out the death sentence to big players in drug trafficking world despite criticism from foreign countries and human rights activists, arguing that consistency in law enforcement is the key to success in curbing the distribution of drugs. "The best way to reduce03
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John Clayton OwensThe Alabama Supreme Court has rejected a request by John Clayton Owens' lawyers to rule the state's death penalty system unconstitutional.The court denied the request without comment this afternoon.Attorneys Brian Clark and Ron Smith filed the petition last month on the eve ofA year ago, Utah lawmakers were expanding the ways the state could execute inmates condemned to death. This week, the state took a major step toward possibly abolishing the death penalty entirely.The Utah state Senate narrowly voted on Wednesday to approve a bill that scraps the death penalty03
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Reading out a death sentence: a daily occurrence in ISIS-controlled territoriesMarch 2, 2016: Islamic State militants have released a “death list” of 1,065 people they have murdered in one city in the past year. The grim document has been put up
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Jessica Kumala WongsoJakarta. Police remained tight-lipped on Wednesday (02/03) about Indonesia's guarantee that murder suspect Jessica Kumala Wongso, a permanent resident of Australian, will not face the death penalty.The Jakarta Police have sought assistance from the Australian Federal Police in02
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Death row inmates in Ghezel Hesar Prison, IranIran Human Rights (MAR 2 2016): In the last month Iran's Supreme Court has reportedly confirmed 100 death sentences for drug offenses.At least 100 prisoners in Ghezel Hesar Prison (in Karaj, northern Iran) are in imminent danger
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Missourians and future legislators would be able to see where in the state budget is the money that pays for executions, under a change approved by the House Budget Committee.The Committee approved putting money for Missouri's executions in a separate budget line - it used to come out of an02
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2016
The reasons why include workplace discrimination, job segregation and the lack of flexible working.Women have barely half the pension savings of men, according to a new report that has just been published.Sponsored by Age UK, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), The People’s Pension and The01
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Campaigners say the No DSS problem is a nationwide one.Housing activists picketed a series of east London estate agents over the weekend in a call to end renting discrimination against people on benefits.Dozens of people picketed letting agents in Hackney as part of the launch of the ‘Yes06
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaYADH: Saudi Arabia executed a citizen convicted of murder on Sunday, bringing the number of people it has put to death this year to 70.Alaa al-Zahrani was found guilty of killing fellow Saudi Abdullah al-Sumairi with a rock to the head, the interior
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One of the masterminds behind terror attacks on Jakarta in January was a convict on death row, Indonesian police revealed on Friday.JAKARTA: One of the masterminds behind a series of terror attacks that hit Jakarta on Jan 14 is a convict on death row, Iwan Kurniawan or Rois, Indonesian police told04
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Pressure from Australia led to Papua New Guinea shelving its plans to reintroduce the death penalty for serious crimes, the country's chief law reform bureaucrat has saidDr Eric Kwa, the secretary-general of the Constitutional and Law Reform Commission, told a law reform conference in Melbourne03
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Daryl Jerome ReedA Winston-Salem man accused of killing a 2-year-old boy in 2014 has rejected a plea deal that would have taken the death penalty off the table.Daryl Jerome Reed, 26, made the decision at the last minute Wednesday morning in Forsyth Superior Court.Reed is charged with 1st-degree
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire lawmakers are deciding whether to suspend the state's death penalty rather than repeal it outright.The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on a bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Kevin Avard of Nashua.The measure would suspend use of the death penalty until03
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Mahmoud IshtiwiGAZA CITY — The death of Mahmoud Ishtiwi had all the trappings of a telenovela: sex, torture and embezzlement in Gaza’s most venerated and secretive institution, the armed wing of Hamas.Mr. Ishtiwi, 34, was a commander from a storied family of Hamas loyalists who, during the 2014
Mark James AsayThe Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the execution of Mark James Asay, just hours after hearing oral arguments in his case.Asay, convicted in 1987 of 2 Jacksonville murders, was scheduled to be executed March 17. But a January ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hurst02
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Delaware Supreme Court3 assistant public defenders have argued to the Delaware Supreme Court that the death penalty law is unconstitutional - and therefore needs to be fixed by lawmakers.The attorneys from the Office of Defense Services filed a written argument Monday explaining why they believe02
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Perhaps not since Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge has an Asian society been this on edge about its future. Granted, the Indonesian government has not declared martial law nor has it begun to ship the Muslim-majority country's LGBTQ community into forced labor camps. But a recent string of announcements
Larry Fitzgerald witnessed 219 executions while he was the spokespersonfor Texas Department of Criminal Justice in the 1990s.So far this year, the State of Texas has executed 3 death row inmates. 10 more
Leggi TuttoFebruary 29, 2016: A court in Pakistan has sentenced two brothers to death twice for killing their sister and her husband over ‘honour’. The brothers, Ahsan and Zeeshan Butt, had shot dead their sister, Saba, and her husband, Shafiq, for marrying out of their own will six years ago. Sessions