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Our 2019 battle: stopping Tory voter suppression plans.
By Nancy Platts.
This may come as a surprise. Behind the chaos of Brexit, the Tories have actually been moving forward with some of their plans – and we should all be concerned.
In May, the government trialled a dangerous policy to ban those without the right ID from voting in election.
Out of 45 million votes last year, there were just 28 allegations of ‘personation’ – the type of fraud mandatory voter identification is aimed at.
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‘…An important first step towards tackling the injustices facing women…’The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce has set out its key principles for gender and trauma-informed care in the final report it released earlier this week.Co-chaired by Health Minister Jackie Doyle-Price MP, and Katharine20
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The disgraced deputy head of the state-owned firm developing China’s first home-grown aircraft carrier may face the death penalty over his alleged involvement in passing its secrets to foreign intelligence agents.Sun Bo, former general manager of the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation
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OSAKA--A man who killed two junior high school students by strangulation in August 2015 after luring them into his vehicle was sentenced to death by the Osaka District Court on Dec. 19.Presiding Judge Ryuta Asaka, in explaining the verdict, said that 48-year-old Koji Yamada intended to kill
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Of all intentional killings involving intimate partners almost 80 per cent of victims are women.Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women last month, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences (SRVAW) and the18
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Maldives government on Monday vowed to enforce the death penalty but only after adequately reforming the country's judiciary.The government, in a sudden change of stand voted against a United Nations (UN) general assembly resolution in support of a moratorium on the death penalty.The U-turn comes
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Iran Human Rights (IHR); December 16, 2018: A Prisoner was hanged on murder charges at Mashhad Central Prison last Wednesday.According to the Iranian website, Rokna, a 50 years old man was executed on the morning of December 12, 2018. He was sentenced to death for murdering his wife 8 years
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A senior official of Iran’s Judiciary has said on December 13 that former tycoon, Babak Zanjani will be executed after he returns what he owes the Islamic Republic.Zanjani who was arrested in 2013 on charges of embezzling money earned from black market oil exports sanctioned by the government
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Six former governors call on California’s governor to follow in their footsteps and grant clemency to death row prisoners.Among a governor’s many powers, none is more significant than signing a death warrant. It’s a terrible responsibility, hard even to imagine until you’re asked to carry it out
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All 7 death sentences in 2018 imposed on people of colorThe number of death sentences and executions in 2018 was consistent with lower use of the death penalty in Texas over the last 10 years, according to a new report from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP). New death
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‘Business enterprises, including investors, have a duty to respect human rights and human rights defenders.’A group of major brands has called for the protection of human rights defenders and civic freedoms, both of which are under attack around the world.In a statement the group said:‘The13
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Jose Jimenez is set to be executed Thursday night. Like many death row inmates, he has challenged the drugs Florida uses to execute prisoners.The last time Florida carried out an execution, witnesses said the condemned man — Eric Branch — screamed and thrashed as lethal chemicals coursed through
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The death penalty is on the decline in America.The death penalty is, slowly but surely, on the decline in America.A new report from the Death Penalty Information Center found that 2018 was the fourth year in a row in which executions were below 30 and death sentences were below 50. It’s not a new
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With a new governor and a Democratic-controlled House and Senate, legislators are set to propose a bill to abolish the death penalty in Colorado.Fort Collins Rep. Jeni Arndt, D-Fort Collins, said she's working on a bill in the state House to abolish the death penalty, with support from Democratic
Denpasar: An Australian man could face the death penalty in Indonesia after being indicted for cocaine possession by a Bali court.Brendon Luke Johnsson, 43, from Brisbane, and his partner Remi Purwanti, 43, an Indonesian national, have been indicted on two counts and face two possible charges by
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The three femicide census reports name the 1,246 women killed since 2009.The third Femicide Census Report, released by nia’s Chief Executive, Karen Ingala Smith, in partnership with Women’s Aid, has revealed that at least 139 women were killed by 126 men in the UK between 1 January and 3117
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Solidarity with migrants isn’t ‘terrorism’ – the Stansted 15 case shames the UK.By Gracie Bradley.One of the biggest travesties of British justice in recent years, the judgement in the Stansted 15 case, shame us all.We should cherish dissenters trying to stop human rights abuses – not16
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A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur said this while dealing with an application which had said that prisoners sentenced to death by any court have a right to be treated at par with other convicted prisoners and should be provided all similar facilities as are provided to others in jail.The
Lawyers for a man charged with killing eight people in a terrorist attack on a New York City bike path said in a court filing Friday that they had learned the FBI had intercepted his communications, though it was unclear when that surveillance began.“We are still waiting for more information from
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Oregon lawmakers and death penalty opponents are considering a roundabout approach at gutting the state’s capital punishment law — without sending it to voters.Since 1984, the death penalty has been enshrined in the Oregon Constitution, meaning it can only be removed by a vote of the people. But
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Following the murder, the man assumed his wife's identity on social media and used her money to date other womenA Shanghai man is now appealing his death sentence after being convicted of murdering his wife and hiding her body in a freezer in their home for the following three months while he
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The Home Office has opened a consultation on preventing and tackling forced marriage.Forced marriage is when you face physical pressure to marry (for example, threats, physical violence or sexual violence) or emotional and psychological pressure (eg if you are made to feel like you are bringingNew Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea seeking directions for immediate execution of the four death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case, saying, “you want us to go around Delhi and execute these people?”“What kind of prayer you are making?” a bench of
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Supporters of death penalty repeal appear to have a veto-proof majority in the New Hampshire Senate this coming legislative session, easing the road for potential passage a year after Gov. Chris Sununu blocked the measure from becoming law.After an election that saw four senators lose their seats
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 — A coalition of Muslim groups have demanded that Putrajaya rescind the moratorium on the death penalty, so it could be used against the murderers of slain firefighter Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim.In a press conference, Gerakan Pembela Ummah said those found guilty should hang
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Action on hazardous chemicals by trading standards officers varies widely between councils.A survey of councils has found that UK shoppers are not properly protected from illegal levels of hazardous chemicals in the products they buy.Hazardous chemicals are defined by various EU regulations18
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After a record number of UN member states today supported at the final vote a key UN General Assembly resolution calling for a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, Amnesty International’s Death Penalty Expert Chiara Sangiorgio said: “The fact that more countries
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Vatican City, Dec 17, 2018 / 12:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The death penalty is always a rejection of the Gospel and of human dignity, and therefore must be rejected by all countries, Pope Francis told the Delegation of the International Commission against the Death Penalty on Monday.In his meeting
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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko spoke about the topic of death penalty at the meeting with representatives of the Russian media on 14 December, BelTA has learned. According to Alexander Lukashenko, he is keeping an eye on the situation in western countries where they say that the death
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The death penalty in the United States is dying. Not in Alabama -- not yet, at least -- but nationally it is dying. Good riddance.Killing death-row inmates doesn’t deter violent crime, statistics show. Killing death-row inmates is more expensive than giving them life sentences with no chance of
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Lisa Cunningham, the Australian mother facing the death penalty for the alleged murder of her 7-year-old daughter has appeared in an Arizona pre-trial court hearing today.In a hearing lasting just 3 minutes, Lisa and her husband Germayne Cunningham were granted access to parts of an autopsy
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Florida executes Miami murderer Jose Jimenez after last-ditch appeal denied by U.S. Supreme CourtA man convicted of fatally beating and stabbing a South Florida woman 26 years ago during a burglary has been executed.Authorities say 55-year-old Jose Antonio Jimenez was pronounced dead at 9:48 p.m
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The continued use of the death penalty in Belarus has been condemned by an authoritative UN rights body after 3 men were reportedly executed there, despite its requests for clemency.The Human Rights Committee, one of 10 UN treaty bodies that meet regularly in Geneva, had appealed to Belarus not
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Mark Heyer, whose daughter, Heather Heyer, was killed in 2017 while protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, says he does not want federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against the man who killed his daughter. James Alex Fields, Jr., a 21-year-old who