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For many women involvement in prostitution is based not on choice but survival.
Scottish women talk about their experiences of being involved in prostitution in two powerful short films launched recently by the Women’s Support Project and Zero Tolerance.
‘Katy’s Story’ and ‘Stephanie’s Story’ can be seen via the Women’s Support Project’s Youtube channel.
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Clive Stafford SmithI got Brandon Jones off death row 20 years ago. On Tuesday, the state of Georgia ended his life.I knew I wouldn't sleep on Tuesday, when the state of Georgia geared up to execute Brandon Jones. At 72, Jones was the oldest prisoner to ever be
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Bernie Sanders (left) and Hillary Clinton (right)Clinton thinks it's appropriate for "particularly heinous crimes," while Sanders wants the government out of the killing business.WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders split on the issue of capital
Meth bust in IndonesiaJakarta. In 1971, US President Richard Nixon proclaimed that "America's public enemy number one" was substance abuse, and that America therefore needed to wage a "war on drugs."More than 40 years later, the Indonesian government has declared its own war against drugs, but03
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Change which could directly affect the ability of UK citizens to bring their non-EU family to the UK.David Cameron’s negotiations with the EU have been all over the news these last few days, with a lot of focus on Donald Tusk’s response to Cameron’s key demand for a 4-year ban on in-work03
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Brandon Astor JonesGeorgia has executed the oldest man on the state’s death row, Brandon Astor Jones.At 12:46 a.m. Wednesday, Jones, just 10 days shy of his 73rd birthday, took his last breath, ending a decades-long journey for the daughter and widow of the man he murdered in 1979.The execution02
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We must have change now.The Nineteen Child Homicide report launched recently by Women’s Aid reviewed relevant serious case reviews for England and Wales, published between January 2005 and August 2015.It uncovered details of 19 children in 12 families who were killed by perpetrators of
Kagyu Samye Ling monastery in ScotlandChina has sentenced two men to death for killing a British monk who founded Europe’s first Tibetan monastery, state media said.Chöje Akong Tulku Rinpoche, co-founder of Scotland’s Kagyu Samye Ling monastery near Langholm, in Dumfries and Galloway, was found
Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)The parents of Joselito Zapanta, the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was executed in Saudi Arabia in December, are looking for the P23-million bloody money the government raised to save him from death penalty."Where did the blood money go?
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A Superior Court judge has halted all trials and penalty hearings in capital murder cases while Delaware's Supreme Court mulls the constitutionality of the state's death penalty law.The order was issued Monday President Judge Jan Jurden, head of the Superior Court system.Last week, the Supreme01
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We believe that ‘discretionary’ funding for refuge provision is far too insecure.Women’s refuges in Scotland could be forced to close because planned changes to housing benefit would leave them with shortfalls of tens of thousands of pounds a year, Scottish Women’s Aid has warned.Scottish01
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Somewhere under the tall grass and thistle in Chester Township lies the bodyof Alexander McClay Williams, an African American teen executed84 years ago for a murder Lemon is convinced he didn't commit.Sam Lemon of Media has spent more than 30 years researching what he believes was the unjustified
The 6th October Bridge in central Cairo, EgyptThe grounds for the appeals court ruling are still unclear, but the new trial will be held in a criminal court.Egypt's Court of Cassation, the country's highest appeals court, on Wednesday ordered a retrial for 149 activists
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Watching a public execution in Iran (file photo)According to close sources, 2 Baluchi prisoners were hanged to death at Yazd Central Prison on drug related charges.The executions were reportedly carried out on Monday February 1.According to the Baloch Activists Campaign, the names of the Leggi
The top court directed the federal government on Tuesday to submit a report on the status of thousands of death row prisoners languishing in jails for years.A 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, took up a petition filed by Barrister Zafarullah, who requested the03
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Holyrood elections a fantastic opportunity to push women’s equality up the political agenda.And this year Engender, a feminist organisation that has worked in Scotland for 20 years to advance equality between women and men, is encouraging women across Scotland to get involved by asking03
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Ashraf FayadhPanel of judges downgrades punishment for apostasy conviction to 8 years in prison and 800 lashesA Saudi court has overturned the death sentence of a Palestinian poet accused of renouncing Islam, imposing an 8-year prison term and 800 lashes instead. He must also repent through an
Custer State Park, South Dakota2 dozen state legislators have sponsored a bill to repeal South Dakota's death penalty.Sen. Arthur Rusch, R-Vermillion, a retired circuit court judge, and Rep. Timothy Johns, R-Lead, serve as the prime sponsors on Senate Bill 94 to strike the death penalty from state02
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Bali's Kerobokan prisonSerang, Banten. An officer from the Serang District Police in Banten has been arrested for allegedly smuggling drugs to two inmates serving time at a local prison.Prison officials became suspicious when the police officer, identified only as Brig. H.D., arrived at the prison02
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Brandon Astor JonesThe Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a clemency request from the state's oldest death row inmate.The board announced its decision Monday after holding a hearing on the request from Brandon Astor Jones.The 72-year-old is scheduled for execution at 7 p.m. Tuesday01
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Public execution in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Saudi authorities executed a Saudi national on Monday for the murder of a compatriot, bringing the number of executions by capital punishment to 56 in the kingdom this year.Ahmed al-Harbi was found guilty of stabbing and shooting Fahed al-Balawi Leggi01
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Right now the global tax system is not working for women and it is making the world more unequal.Natasha Adams, Tax Campaign manager with Action Aid, explains.Taxes are the key building blocks of societies. They pay for the vast array of public services that societies rely on, and that people01
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Jessica Kumala WongsoPolice in Jakarta have charged Jessica Kumala Wongso, a suspect in the high-profile murder of her friend, Wayan Mirna Salihin, with premeditated murder, which means she could face the death penalty, an official said on Saturday.The 27-year-old was named a suspect at 11 p.m. on
The European Parliament has condemned the use of torture and the death penalty in Bahrain, demanding the release of a man sentenced to death after allegedly confessing under torture.In a resolution passed on Thursday, the body called on Bahraini ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa to pardon
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A proposal that would force inmates to die by electric chair if lethal injection drugs can't be found is gaining steam in Virginia, in part because of a looming execution scheduled for next month.State officials are frantically searching for the drugs for the March 1604
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‘If I hadn’t been able to return to education as a young mother I don’t know what would have happened to me.’The Further Education sector has seen cuts to EMA, the adult skills budget carved up, the slashing of ESOL funding, the axing of courses and adult student numbers crashing.And now03
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A secretive circle of drug suppliers, doctors and nurses could be subverting U.S. tax law while carrying out state executions, but that's no problem as far as Missouri Department of Corrections director George Lombardi is concerned. In fact, during a tense budget hearing yesterday in Jefferson03
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Cary Michael LambrixThe Florida Supreme Court issued a stay Tuesday hours after lawyers for Cary Michael Lambrix argued more time was needed to review his case in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring the state's death penalty law unconstitutional.A unanimous 6-0 court issued the stay02
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Ohio's 53 executions shown "vast inequities" in racial, gender and geography, a new study concludes.Research by Frank Baumgartner, a University of North Carolina political science professor, are not a revelation to those familiar with Ohio's death penalty, which resumed in 1999 after a 36-year
Iraqi President Fouad Massoum on Sunday execution orders for offenders convicted of terrorist offenses, his spokesman announced.Khalid Shwani, the official spokesman of Iraqi president, explained that this was the 3rd batch of executions that Massoum had signed for terrorist offenses, but did not01
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Even as some countries liberalize their drug laws, others like Indonesia are brutally cracking downThe use of society's ultimate sanction, the death penalty, has been declining around the world for decades. In 1977, only 16 countries had abolished the death penalty; by 2015, 140 had either01
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Brandon Astor JonesThe 5 members of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles are now weighing the arguments from family and advocates for condemned killer Brandon Astor Jones against the statements from prosecutors and the victim’s family in deciding if the 72-year-old man should live or die tomorrow
Michael LambrixMichael Lambrix was supposed to die on Nov. 30, 1988.He was moved to a special "Death Watch" cell near the execution chamber.He met with the warden, who explained the process. He met with the chaplain. He met with the kitchen supervisor to plan his last meal."As I sat only Leggi01
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Gay man thrown off building by ISIS militants(CNN) ISIS has executed 3,895 people, more than half of them civilians, since announcing the establishment of a "caliphate state" in June 2014, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.Of the 2,114 civilians killed,
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