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Women and girls don’t stop getting pregnant or giving birth in times of crisis.
Unless inequality is urgently tackled and the poorest women empowered to make their own decisions about their lives, countries could face unrest and threats to peace and development, according to The State of World Population 2017, published by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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Pouria Tabaei, who is sentenced to death on the charge of murdering his step-father, is scheduled to be executed at Rajai Shahr Prison.According to a close source, Pouria Tabaei who was only 16 at the time of committing the crime, is currently on the death row at Rajai Shahr Prison.He was born on
LINCOLN, Neb. — A Nebraska judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that claimed the 2016 vote to reinstate the death penalty was invalid because Gov. Pete Ricketts helped bankroll the petition drive to place the issue on the ballot.Lancaster County District Judge John Colborn rejected the lawsuit filed
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Make residential safety products more affordable – and save more livesResidential safety products and services – smoke alarms, annual gas safety checks, fire assessments and carbon monoxide detectors for example – are currently taxed at 20 per cent VAT.There is a strong ethical argument for12
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2018
IQ tests have long been plagued by claims of cultural and racial bias. Critics from a wide range of arenas, including academia, psychology, psychiatry and activism have characterized these controversial assessments as ineffective, inappropriate and skewed toward a normative white standard. Still
Ross Geiger took the extraordinary step of writing to the governor last week. On Thursday, John Kasich responded in a considered and appropriate way. The governor issued a temporary reprieve for Raymond Tibbetts, who was scheduled for execution by lethal injection next Tuesday. Now the Ohio
Pakistan military courts have sentenced 7 "hardcore" militants to death over various attacks on security forces that left dozens dead, including civilians, the country's army chief said Friday.A statement issued by the military's Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) gave few details of the
Last month, the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice sent a bill to the Council of Islamic Ideology for review. The bill proposes an amendment in the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and seeks public execution of criminals charged with kidnapping a child below the age of 14. In the council's
The lynching of Mashal Khan over blasphemy accusations sent shockwaves through PakistanA Pakistani court sentenced 1 person to death and 5 others to life imprisonment on Wednesday for lynching a student accused of blasphemy in a highly-charged case that sent shockwaves through the conservative
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Iran seems intent on erasing any positive impression gained from modest reforms to its drug execution laws last year by hanging several child offenders in a bloody start to 2018(Beirut) – Iran executed at least three child offenders across the country in January 2018, Human Rights Watch said
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Iran Human Rights (Feb 5, 2018): Last week a juvenile offender named Mahbubeh Mofidi, who was sentenced to death on the charge of murdering her husband, was executed at Noshahr Prison. The so-called “17-year-old newly-wed” was the third juvenile offender executed in January 2018.According to a
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Clemency Sought for Solitary Watch Contributor Thomas Whitaker, Scheduled to Be Executed on February 22ndThomas Bartlett Whitaker is a tremendously gifted writer. His work has been published on Solitary Watch (here and here), and was selected for inclusion in our anthology Hell Is a Very Small
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DES MOINES — The 2018 legislative debate over reinstating the death penalty in Iowa didn't last long.One day after a sometimes-emotionally charged subcommittee discussion on a bill designed to provide a limited deterrent in situations in which someone aged 18 or older kidnaps, rapes and murders a
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Good work matters.An independent review has been published which considers the implications of new forms of work on worker rights and responsibilities, as well as on employer freedoms and obligations.The work of this review was based on a single overriding ambition: all work in the UK economy13
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2018
The number of US citizens that have been convicted of crimes they didn’t commit is staggering.There are currently 2,086 exonerated convictions, totaling over 18,060 lost years and an unknowable number of innocent people ripped apart from loved ones. Lives have been destroyed and in some cases
Tánaiste Simon Coveney has called on the Yemeni authorities to release a 52-year-old man sentenced to death for his religious beliefs following an appeal by a number of TDs and the Bahá’í community in Ireland.Mr Coveney, also the Minister for Foreign Affairs, said: “Ireland strongly condemns all
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A group of Utah attorneys, advocates and state staff have spent the last year studying the state's death penalty. The working group, created by Utah's Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, examined several areas, including costs, aggravating factors and public attitude.The CCJJ report
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Texas remains the strictest applicant of the US death penalty but its increasing reluctance to put criminals to death reflects a national trend.Kent Whitaker supported the death penalty until his son, who arranged for a gunman to kill Mr Whitaker and the rest of his family, landed on death row in
Iran Human Rights (Feb 8, 2018): At least one prisoner was hanged at Rajai Shahr Prison on murder charges.According to a close source, on the morning of Wednesday, February 7, at least one prisoner was executed at Rajai Shahr Prison. The prisoner, identified as Mohammad Karimi from Varamin, was
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An Italian Senator has appealed to the Government of Thailand to stave off the death penalty for Denis Cavatassi, who stands convicted of hiring a killer to murder his business partner, Luciano Butti, in Phuket in 2011.Cavatassi was convicted and condemned to death by the Supreme Court of
Texas' highest criminal court on Wednesday rejected the appeal of a condemned British national who was convicted of arranging the killing of a neighbor so she could take the woman's baby.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the ruling of a lower court, which rejected Linda Carty's arguments
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A proposal to expand the number of prisoners on death row who could have their sentences reviewed by a jury was approved by a Senate committee Tuesday.The issue dates back to early 2016 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Florida’s death penalty was unconstitutional, as it allowed judges to
Every Friday in Iraq, a gripping show on state television beams the alleged confessions of death-row jihadists into homes around the country.At peak viewing time, it broadcasts gruesome images of their purported crimes before interviewing the convicts, who appear clad in orange or yellow
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After a push to end Utah’s death penalty system failed two years ago, lawmakers will again consider whether to abolish capital punishment.HB379 would prohibit Utah prosecutors from seeking the death penalty after May 8. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Gage Froerer, R-Huntsville, still would allow for
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Most jewellery brands can’t guarantee their products aren’t tainted by human rights abuses.People spend billions on jewellery each year, and many people make Valentine’s Day extra special by buying a ring or necklace.But does your favourite jeweller know where their gold and diamonds come12
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“She said that I had no difficulty reading with my glasses yet I do not wear glasses to read.”In September 2017, the Work and Pensions Committee put out a call for evidence on the medical assessments for disability benefits PIP and ESA carried out for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)12
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Taipei, Feb. 12 (CNA) The Taiwan government is hoping to one day abolish capital punishment, but until then, death penalties must be carried out in accordance with the proper legal procedure, according to Justice Minister Chiu Tai-san (邱太三).In an interview with CNA earlier this month, Chiu said
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The Ohio Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence of Richard Beasley, who posted fake job offers on Craigslist to lure men for him to rob and kill.Beasley, 58, teamed up with a teenager to use the free classified ad website to put up postings promising jobs on a southeastern Ohio farm
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Muslim Ayub also wants to punish people who 'promote' the LGBTI communityAn Indonesian politician has grabbed headlines in that country after saying he believed LGBTI people should be sentenced to death or at least life in prison.Muslim Ayub is a member of the Islamist National Mandate Party
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The execution of Raymond Tibbetts was postponed until October 17, pending a review by the parole board.Ross Allen Geiger can still smell the unusual odor emanating from Raymond Tibbetts’ blood-splattered jeans. It was a peculiar smell, one that is difficult to describe, but it could be best
He's Watched 21 Men DieAlan Johnson retired from the Columbus Dispatch last year. During his preceding tenure at the paper, in addition to a host of other topics, Johnson reported on Ohio's executions for 18 years. Of the 55 men put to death in the state since 1999, he witnessed 21 of them; he
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One hundred years later the struggle for equality continues.Jeremy Corbyn has marked the centenary of women’s suffrage by staging a special meeting of the shadow cabinet at the Museum of London as he launched #TheNextStep, Labour’s year-long campaign for women’s equality.Corbyn, Dawn Butler07
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Clemency Sought for Solitary Watch Contributor Thomas Whitaker, Scheduled to Be Executed on February 22ndThomas Bartlett Whitaker is a tremendously gifted writer. His work has been published on Solitary Watch (here and here), and was selected for inclusion in our anthology Hell Is a Very Small
The arrest of a man who has confessed to raping and killing an 11-year-old girl, and burning her remains, has revived the call among some members of Congress to reinstate the death penalty.Under the 1979 Constitution, the death penalty was abolished except for crimes of treason during times of