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A comic book about one of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionaries.
‘Red Rosa’ tells the life story of philosopher, economist, publisher, writer, organiser, political leader and martyr Rosa Luxemburg in full-colour, graphic form.
This beautifully drawn graphic life gives ‘Red Rosa’ her due as an iconic radical, but also portrays a fascinating woman with a rich love life, struggles with physical disability and an abiding love of literature and theatre.
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Veterans sentenced to death in Texas murder cases - and nationwide - might have escaped the punishment if juries had been told about their military service and any ensuing mental health problems, according to a Death Penalty Information Center report released Tuesday.About 300 veterans are on12
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Trailblazing driver admits her Formula 1 racing career “isn’t going to happen”.In an interview with BBC Breakfast, Susie Wolff said, “It was a decision I made at the end of the summer. There was very little opportunity to carry on in Formula 1.“My goal was to get on to the starting grid and11
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Seven years for diagnosis is #TooLong and a huge injustice for the UK’s women and girls.Endometriosis UK is calling for the UK government to create a National Strategy for endometriosis, a long-term condition.This would set quality standards for endometriosis care and set out a clear clinical10
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Public execution in Saudi ArabiaAt least 151 people have been put to death in Saudi Arabia so far this year - the highest recorded figure since 1995 - in an unprecedented wave of executions marking a grim new milestone in the Saudi Arabian authorities' use of the
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Andrew Chan (left) and Myuran Sukumaran (right)Given the very different views about the death penalty in Australia and Indonesia, it was perhaps inevitable that the bilateral relationship would come under strain as the executions of convicted drug smugglers, Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran08
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Kho JabingThe Singapore Court of Appeal has set November 23 to hear an appeal by Sarawakian death row inmate Kho Jabing to have his sentence commuted, according to an anti-death penalty activist.Ms Kirsten Han, the co-founder of Singapore-based We Believe in Second Chances, told Malay Mail Online07
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Democratic presidential candidates, from left, Bernie Sanders,Martin O’Malley, Hillary Clinton, November 2016.Less than 3 decades ago, calling for an end to the death penalty on the campaign trail could sink a candidate. Now, with public support for executions waning, Democrats are making it06
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The UK stands alone in Europe as the only country with no time limit on detention.On 7 November over 1000 people from around the country will converge at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre to demonstrate, demanding that Yarl’s Wood is finally shut down and calling for a complete end to05
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Unjust. Unfair. Costly. Dehumanizing.These concerns reflect the reality of the administration of the death penalty. As such, they lead to the same inevitable conclusion: It is time to abolish capital punishment in Kentucky.It has been 4 years since an American Bar Association-sponsored assessment05
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Capital punishment, once a key issue in U.S. presidential races, has hardly been mentioned in this one. That is testament to the fact that America, like the rest of the world, is moving away from the death penalty. Most of the work for abolition in the U.S. is happening in the states,
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Sarawakian Kho JabingSarawakian Kho Jabing has received a stay of execution on a death sentence less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to be hanged in Singapore, rights advocacy group We Believe in Second Chances co-founder Kirsten Han said today.Jabing's lawyer had filed a criminal motion on12
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On Tuesday, 6 June 1995, over a year after electing the late Nelson Mandela as its President, South Africa ended the use of the death penalty, with a ruling of its constitutional court.Mandela's personal involvement in this outcome has been significant: 5 years earlier, freshly out of prison, he12
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The tomb-like isolation cell next to Oklahoma's death chamber. Everythingin Cell L is cement, including the bed. The door is always kept closed.It's underground, so there is no natural light. Instead, bright lights are kepton all the time.For 50-days straight, florescent lights bore into the small11
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The UK is ‘wilfully turning a blind eye’ to Narendra Modi’s ‘brutal and authoritarian Hindu Right regime’.On 13 and 14 November 2015 the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, will be visiting the UK.His visit is significant for a number of reasons, but most of all because it marks the10
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It was supposed to be a humane alternative to the noose. On March 22, 1890, The Times reported on a New York Court of Appeals ruling that a new invention, the electric chair, did not constitute cruel punishment.It would be used to execute a convicted wife killer, William Kemmler.When the09
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Pakistan has hanged 299 people since resuming executions in December last year, and could pass the 300 mark any day, according to research by international human rights organization Reprieve and Justice Project Pakistan (JPP).Pakistan lifted a moratorium on executions in December 2014, arguing08
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Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal all spoke this weekend at the National Religious Liberties Conference in Iowa, an event hosted by Kevin Swanson, a Colorado-based pastor and activist who frequently informs his followers that the biblical penalty for07
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Nebraska's corrections director faced blistering criticism Thursday for spending more than $54,000 on foreign-made lethal injection drugs the state hasn't received because the federal government says their import is illegal.Members of a legislative oversight committee grilled Nebraska Department06
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The Prime Minister has refused to disclose how drone strikes are governed or justified.The Joint Committee on Human Rights, chaired by Harriet Harman MP, has announced there will be an inquiry into the UK government’s policy on the use of drones for targeted killing.Earlier this year members
In 2014 the number of people sentenced with the death penalty increased by 28 %. According to the UN the penalties were imposed for terrorism and drug charges.In 2014, there had unfortunately been a 28 % increase in the number of people condemned to death, according to data presented by the UN05
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Welfare reform and the political crisis in Northern Ireland.If the public thought the Northern Ireland political institutions were failing to meet their expectations before, then the recent shenanigans can only have confirmed this view.The response by the Deputy Leader of the DUP to the
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Toto Riyanto,Indonesia's new ambassadorBRASILIA - Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff accepted the Indonesian ambassador's credentials Wednesday after a nearly nine-month standoff over the Asian country's execution of two Brazilian nationals convicted of drug12
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Ali al-NimrThe Saudi authorities are refusing to allow Ali al-Nimr, who was sentenced to death aged 17, access to a doctor, according to his family.Ali was arrested following anti-government protests in 2012, and sentenced to death in a secretive trial on the basis of a “confession” extracted11
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New paper offers a gendered critique of multilateral instruments. The negative impacts on our society of patriarchy and male privilege are perhaps nowhere more pervasive and pernicious than in the field of weapons, war, and militarism.But much of the discussion on disarmament perpetuates the11
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"Self Portrait after our new arrivals, A bad sleeplast night" by Myuran Sukumaran, Nusakambanganpenal island, April 25, 2015.Convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran has been posthumously named GQ Artist of the Year, seven months after
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Nusakambangan Island, where Indonesia carried out the execuctionsOn the night of 28 April, much of the world’s media was trained on a prison island off central Java where eight prisoners, including two Australians, were executed at midnight.The lead up to the executions and the
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California's death chamberThe California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has finally settled on 4 barbiturates - amobarbital, pentobarbital, secobarbital and thiopental - as the poisons of choice for its proposed new method of executing people. A single dose from any of the 4 would
Rokhsahana was stoned to death by Taliban for eloping in Afghanistanin Oct. 2015. The man with whom she was eloping has not been stoned.KABUL, Afghanistan — After men believed to be Taliban fighters forced a 19-year-old named Rukhshana into a freshly dug pit and methodically stoned her to death
California's brand new execution chamberCalifornia unveiled a new method for executing condemned prisoners Friday, proposing a single-drug lethal injection protocol that could restart capital punishment after a 10-year hiatus.The proposal came as a result of a lawsuit filed against the state by
The state of Arizona says it has a 3-drug combination available to use in executions once they resume.In a federal court notice filed Tuesday, the state says it has midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride on-hand and that it plans on using that combination when executions resume. It's05
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On the morning of Wednesday October 4 [sic], 2 prisoners were reportedly hanged to death at Rajai Shahr Prison on murder charges.On the same day another prisoner charged with murder was reportedly hanged at Tabriz Central Prison.On Sunday the 2 prisoners from Rajai Shahr Prison had been05
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And devolution could give the Scottish parliament an opportunity to make improvements.David Mundell MP, the Secretary of State for Scotland, announced recently that abortion law is to be devolved to the Scottish Parliament.What now?‘Abortion Rights’ is a national pro-choice campaign; it has04
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Gathering signatures against the Nebraska death penalty repealNebraska prison officials unsuccessfully tried to buy a key lethal injection drug from a Mississippi-based pharmaceutical company after spending months trying to import tens of thousands of dollars in execution drugs from India