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Will you watch a film a week by a woman for one year?
Say YES, and join the#52FilmsByWomen movement!
It is super easy: make the commitment, watch the film and post about it on Facebook or Twitter.
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Aside from the barbarism and injustice of Saudi Arabia’s execution of 47 men on Jan. 2, the state-sponsored killings — some by beheading — bucked a strong trend against capital punishment in most of the world. According to the annual report of Amnesty International, executions were carried out in11
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)Iran Human Rights (JAN 8 2016): On the morning of Thursday January 7, a prisoner was reportedly hanged in public on murder charges.The execution was reportedly carried out in public in the city of Khoy (in the Iranian province of West
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‘Progress in reducing the employment gap between disabled and non-disabled people has ground to a halt.’Nearly half of disabled people are not in work.In response to this, on 7 January the TUC published a manifesto to promote equality for disabled people and challenge discrimination against
Bystanders, including young children, watch a public hanging on Jan. 8, 2016Northwestern Iran: as a crowd including young children watch, a young man is hanged in public by Iranian authorities.Iran Human Rights (JAN 8 2016): Late morning on Thursday January 7, a prisoner was hanged in public on07
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince has used his first major interview since taking office to defend the country’s recent mass execution, claiming that human rights are ‘important’ to his government.Speaking to the Economist, Mohammed bin Salman – the son of King
Bystanders watching a public execution in Iran (file photo)Three prisoners were reportedly hanged in the city of Nazarabad on drug charges.Four men and one woman were reportedly hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on murder and drug charges.Iran Human Rights (JAN 7 2016): On
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Robert Greene ElliottOn this date in 1927, Robert Greene Elliott — the “state electrician” who wired the majesty of the law to condemned men and women from Rockview, Pa. to Windsor, Vt. — had the busiest day of his illustrious career.Once just a regular prison electrician, Elliott
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The difference between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic regime of IranOnly China carries out more executions a year than Iran, according to human rights groupsOn Saturday Saudi Arabia executed 47 people, including the Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.The move prompted
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Dawoud al-MarhoonThree Saudi juveniles remain at grave risk of execution, international human rights NGO Reprieve has warned, as fresh details emerged of the cases of several young protestors who were executed on Saturday.Ali Saeed al-Rebh and Mohammad Faisal al-Shioukh, two protestors who were03
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British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford (centre) on Death Row in Bali has setup a knitting venture behind bars to provide desperately needed fundsfor
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Protesters demanding freedom for jailed Shiite cleric Nim al-Nimrshortly before his execution in Saudi Arabia.BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran on Sunday and gave all Iranian diplomats 48 hours to leave the kingdom, as escalating tensions over the execution of
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Public beheading by the sword in Saudi Arabia (file photo)Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Sunday executed an Ethiopian for killing a Saudi woman while she was praying.“Jinat Damti Farid, an Ethiopian woman, was executed in Taif Governorate in the Makkah region today for
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The British Library’s digitisation project is looking for former contributors to Spare Rib.May 2015 saw the successful completion of one of the most unusual and unique digitisation projects the British Library’s staff have ever tackled: digitising the British Library’s complete archive of the
British police have trained hundreds of Saudi officers in the last four years, a BBC investigation has found.A Freedom of Information response from the UK College of Policing has revealed that, since the body’s founding in 2012, some 270 officers have been brought from Saudi Arabia to the UK for08
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Oscar Ray BolinRAIFORD — Oscar Ray Bolin, convicted of murdering three Tampa-area women in 1986, was executed by lethal injection Thursday at Florida State Prison.Bolin, 53, was pronounced dead at 10:16 p.m., 11 minutes after the execution began. Scheduled for 6 p.m., Bolin’s execution was delayed07
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Work less, play more.The 40-hour work week is an ingrained part of our culture, but it does very little to enrich our lives. Here’s how to do away with the nine-to-five.By Lucy Purdy.Time is perhaps the most precious commodity of all. While we can buy more possessions and work new jobs, we07
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Patrick Henry in 2001The Patrick Henry affair was a French judicial affair concerning Patrick Henry, convicted for the kidnap and murder of 8-year-old Philippe Bertrand in early 1976. The emotionally charged trial began on January 17, 1977.Henry's case entered legal history after the performance05
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A UK Government minister was this evening repeatedly asked by Members of Parliament to condemn the execution of protesters last weekend in Saudi Arabia, and to publish secret agreements signed between the UK and Saudi governments, but refused to do either.Foreign Office (FCO) minister Tobias05
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Iran Human Rights (JAN 4 2016): On the morning of January 4, a prisoner sentenced to death for murder was hanged in public in Miandoroud, a town in the province of Mazandaran (northern Iran).A source who asked to be anonymous identifies the name of the young prisoner as Abbas Bazari Jamkhaneh.He04
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Presidential hopeful Ted CruzTed Cruz would represent a lot of firsts should he be elected president: He'd be the first Hispanic president, and the first president to be born in Canada (or anywhere outside the 50 states, for that matter). But he'd also be the first president
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A criminal court in Qatar this week has sentenced 5 men in absentia to death by firing squad for murdering their boss.According to court documents, the incident took place in January 2014.4 of the men who were convicted are from Bangladesh: Rebon Khan, Din Islam Aziz al-Rahman, Muhammad Rashid03
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At the height of Alabama’s search for lethal injection drugs, state officials were turned down by every pharmacy they contacted for help, according to court records filed Wednesday.State officials asked every licensed compounding pharmacist in Alabama to make batches of pentobarbital — once the11
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"There have been over 2,000 executions in Iran inthe two years Rouhani has been in office."Who is Hassan Rouhani and what does he stand for? And more importantly what has been the conduct of the
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Why shouldn’t the State obtain a warrant when it comes to our communications?Surveillance powers can play an important role in preventing and detecting serious crime.But the current framework fails to provide sufficient safeguards to ensure it is conducted in a necessary, proportionate and08
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It seems we have had to listen to Saudi Arabia defend its barbaric slaughter of 47 human beings on the second day of this new year.They have said over and over that each and every person killed had been given a fair and impartial trial and have been convicted by their
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ISIS Publicly Executes A Man In Raqqa in January 2016(CNN) An ISIS fighter has executed his own mother before a public audience, an expat Syrian rights group said.The 20-year-old killed his mother in the Syrian city of Raqqa, ISIS' de facto
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New Year challenge for MEPs to be open and transparent about contacts with lobbyists.Green MEP, Molly Scott Cato, has launched a New Year challenge to her fellow South West MEPs, calling on them to be open and transparent about their lobbying contacts.Scott Cato is one of 50 Green MEPs who is06
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The use of the death penalty last year increased dramatically in countries closely allied to the UK, including Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, according to new figures collated by human rights organization Reprieve.The governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan both oversaw unprecedented numbers of05
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Britain has begun the year by abandoning its strategy on the death penalty which had been in place since 2010 – as executions in Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan hit record numbers.Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution of 47 people, including at least four protesters, on 2 January.
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Iran Human Rights (JAN 4 2016): On the morning of January 4, a prisoner sentenced to death for murder was hanged in public in a town in the province of Mazandaran (northern Iran).A source who asked to be anonymous identifies the name of the young prisoner as Abbas Bazari Jamkhaneh.Photos of the
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India's Supreme CourtWorld's largest democracy remains firmly in the company of a minority of countries that swear by medieval practices.As 2015 ends, the number of countries that have abolished the death penalty has risen by four. Although small in population, the four - Fiji, Madagascar03
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Public execution in Iran (file photo)On Thursday December 31, 6 prisoners were reportedly hanged at Tabriz Central Prison (northern Iran) on drug charges and 2 young prisoners were reportedly hanged at Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison (northern Iran) on murder charges.On Saturday January 2, a prisoner03
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The Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Dec 2, 2015 after Iranianprotesters entered the building.Iranian protesters ransacked and set fire to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran on Saturday after Saudi Arabia executed an outspoken Shiite cleric who
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