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2018
We must take proactive steps now to address women’s under-representation.
New research from the Fawcett Society shows that although today marks 100 years since the first women won the vote, less than half of young women think equal representation in Parliament will be achieved in their lifetime.
The figure is significantly lower overall, with only 37 per cent of people believing they will live to see a gender-equal Parliament.
Leggi tuttoThe ABA House of Delegates on Monday asked all death penalty jurisdictions to ban capital punishment for any offender who committed their crime at the age of 21 or younger.In the report accompanying the resolution, the chairs of the Death Penalty Due Process Review Project and the Section of
The decision came just days before the government decides on whether to criminalize homosexualityIndonesia’s Ministry of Health has just declared homosexuality a mental disorder with advocates worried it could strengthen the case for politicians wanting to criminalize homosexuality.On Friday (2
The initiative follows the terrible news that a father who raped and murdered his one-year-old child in the southern city of Puerto Montt, was given life imprisonment.A group of far-right lawmakers asked Chile's recently elected President Sebastian Piñera to pass a bill that would restore the
The authorities in Kabul on Sunday hanged the kidnappers and killers of a 12-year-old boy who was murdered in the city in a kidnap for ransom case last year.Informed security sources said three individuals were hanged to death in Kabul's Pul-e-Charkhi prison earlier today. The sources further
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Feb
2018
When it comes to imposing the death penalty, the United States has long outpaced North American neighbors Canada and Mexico, according to the director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project.Cassandra Stubbs, speaking Friday at the 2018 ABA Midyear Meeting in Vancouver, told the audience of "A
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Feb
2018
Sister Helen Prejean learned early on that opposing the death penalty in the age of President Trump would be a different kind of challenge.The long-time activist and author of “Dead Man Walking” has encountered hundreds of death penalty supporters over the years, including American presidents, so
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Feb
2018
An Alabama Death Row inmate, set to die later this month, was granted a stay of execution.Assistant Alabama Attorney Generals yesterday argued in federal court that Doyle Lee Hamm, who has been on death row for more than 30 years, should be executed on Feb. 22-- the date the Alabama Supreme Court
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Feb
2018
Government proposals mean an estimated that four out of 10 refuges will have to close.The single biggest threat to the future of refuges for abused women and children is this government’s proposed changes to funding for supported housing.More than 50 per cent of refuge funding comes from31
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Amnesty International is outraged by reports that the Iranian authorities have executed a young man convicted of murder who was only 15 years old at the time of the crime.The organization learned that 22-year-old Ali Kazemi was hung earlier today in prison in Busher province. His execution was
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2018
‘It is clear that the time for action is now and urgent’.Shocking figures released by End Hunger UK gives us a glimpse of the extent of hidden hunger in the UK and shows why the government should measure holiday hunger.Over 1 in 10 adults and almost 1 in 4 parents with children aged 18 andIran Human Rights (Jan 29, 2018): At least two prisoners were hanged at Urmia Central Prison on murder charges.According to a close source, on the morning of Sunday, January 28, at least two prisoners were executed at Urmia Central Prison (Darya). The prisoners were sentenced to death on murder
He stood inside the execution chamber at the Huntsville Unit 43 times as a prison chaplain.Today, he's 74, preaching at the First United Methodist Church in Refugio. But the Rev. Ken Houston still recalls the tight, sterile space vividly, where it was once his job to stand near a gurney and lay
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Feb
2018
As a 20-year-old Newport Beach man awaited arraignment Friday for allegedly killing a gay former high school classmate, Orange County's top prosecutor and a state senator announced they would seek legislation to make a murderer motivated by gender or sexual orientation eligible for life in prison
Attempts to convince Iranian courts to review the death sentence given to an academic convicted of spying for Israel have failed, according to the man’s lawyer, who says the sentence is now "definitive".Iranian emergency specialist Ahmadreza Djalali, who is a resident in Sweden, was arrested
Aum Shinrikyo's leader is at last facing capital punishment, but the motive for the 1995 gas attack on Tokyo's subway remains obscureKazumasu Takahashi, an assistant stationmaster on the Chiyoda subway line in central Tokyo, was on duty when the 8:10am train pulled in on Monday morning, March 20
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Feb
2018
An 83-year-old Nevada prison inmate serving 2 life terms, including 1 for a fellow prisoner, has died 3 decades after his case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court decision that spared him the death penalty.Raymond Wallace Shuman died at Carson Tahoe Medical Center in Carson City on Friday, nearly
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Feb
2018
Governments have gone to great effort to keep the sources and methods of their death penalty regimes secret.In November, the Omaha World-Herald sent a simple records request to the Nebraska state government. Along with several other news outlets, the paper wanted to know the source of the drugs
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Feb
2018
John David Battaglia went out with a joke and a grin.Battaglia, 62, offered no apologies and showed no remorse for killing his daughters at his Deep Ellum loft in 2001.He seemed jovial, strapped to a gurney while witnesses arrived to watch his execution at the state's Huntsville Unit.As they
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Gen
2018
New book is a crucial intervention in the ongoing debate around digital activism.The most controversial activist organisation of the 21st century, WikiLeaks has attracted strong, divergent opinions from across the political spectrum.Lauded by its supporters for its indispensable role in31
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2018
Dallas man put to death for murder committed while on parole for earlier slayingA Dallas man who was already on parole for the murder of his estranged wife when he stabbed and strangled his ex-girlfriend in 1999 begged for forgiveness and thanked God with his final breaths before his Tuesday
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Anthony Graves was convicted in 1994 for killing 6 people in 1992. He was exonerated in 2010 after having served 18 1/2 years in prison, 16 of which were spent in solitary confinement and 12 of which were on death row. The prosecutor in Graves' case was eventually disbarred for misconduct, and
A Malaysian couple who were on death row for starving their Cambodian maid to death saw their sentences reduced to 10 years in prison last week, according to Malaysian rights organisations.Chin Chui Ling and her husband, Soh Chew Tong, were initially convicted of homicide in 2013, but the appeal
05
Feb
2018
Sharing stories enables us to hear the voices of those who have often been omitted from the history books.Women’s memories, voices and lives have often been written out of Welsh national heritage, so this year a project aims to capture this hidden history, celebrating Welsh Women’s Aid’s 40th05
Feb
2018
A man facing the death penalty if convicted of the 4 charges of murder against him, including the death of an unborn baby, appeared in court Friday, a week after an Allen Superior judge said his lawyer wasn't qualified for the case.Judge Fran Gull removed Nikos Nakos as lead attorney of Marcus D
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Feb
2018
Three ailing Louisiana death row inmates will still have to be protected from excessive heat during the sweltering summer months, but a federal appeals court has given state corrections officials more latitude to decide how to keep them cool.A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
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Feb
2018
Rage and faith warred inside Kent Whitaker as he lay in a hospital bed with a 9mm bullet hole 6 inches from his heart. It was December 2003, and the pillars of the Houston-area man's life had just been ripped down.A husband of 28 years, he was now a widower. Of his 2 college-age sons, 1 was dead
New Mexico abolished the death penalty in 2009, and it is not coming back this year.A legislative committee on Saturday quashed a bill that would have reinstated capital punishment for the murders of children, police officers and correctional officers.The 3-2 party-line vote was no surprise, but
Alleging the state of Texas botched the year's first two executions by using too-old drugs, lawyers for a death row inmate filed last-minute claims to halt a Thursday night death date for a Dallas man who killed his two daughters. A federal judge denied the claim just an hour before John
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Feb
2018
Review of rape cases has started.The Metropolitan Police Service (‘MPS’ or ‘the Met’) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have published the findings of the joint review carried out into the disclosure failures in the case of R vs Allan, which was dropped at trial in December 2017.The31
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In one trial the defence barrister said that use of Section 41 was to show that “she is an adulteress”.Pressure is mounting on the government over unfair questioning of rape complainants in court after a campaign was launched led by two former Solicitor Generals – eminent lawyer Dame Vera Baird30
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2018
As it stands now, people in Scotland have no recourse to truth or accountability.The Scottish establishment is inexplicably stalling investigations into political secret police in the country, but you can help.Most of the known spycops were active in Scotland, including many who had deceived30
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2018
William Rayford, a 64-year-old death row inmate convicted in the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, is hoping 2 previous U.S. Supreme Court cases will be the key to stopping his execution Tuesday.William Rayford's lawyers are hoping 2 recent U.S. Supreme Court cases will stop his execution set for
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2018
Israel has confronted terrorist attacks for many decades, but in all of those years, the Knesset and the public have not seriously considered whether the justice system should sentence convicted terrorists to death. Instead, despite allowing punishment by death for a narrow range of crimes that