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Pressing concerns and important priorities require urgent attention from policymakers.
A paper exploring women’s perspectives on what policies the government should prioritise to address the persistent disadvantage of women in NI was published recently.
The overall aim of the paper – Policy Prioritisation for Disadvantaged Women: Women’s Perspectives – was to capture the perspectives of a cohort of women, living and working in deprived and rural areas of Northern Ireland, on the subject of policy prioritisation in respect of disadvantaged women’s needs and interests.
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Kirk Bloodsworth, the 1st person to be exonerated from a death sentence by DNA testing in the United States, spoke to an audience at the Emmanuel Apolistic Church in Bremerton on Saturday about his experiences being imprisoned as an innocent man.In 1984, Bloodsworth was arrested for the rape and
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PARIS (Reuters) - France would intervene if a French jihadist were condemned to death in Iraq or Syria, the country’s justice minister Nicole Belloubet said on Sunday.The possibility of such an event has arisen after an Iraqi court this month sentenced to death a German woman of Moroccan origin
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Egypt must stop executions until it has reviewed all death sentences and retry any convictions that are found to rest on unfair trials, 5 independent U.N. human rights experts said on Friday.Egypt's mission to the United Nations in Geneva did not immediately comment on the appeal, but Egyptian
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The attorney for a man facing the death penalty was removed from the case after a judge said he was unprepared and inexperienced.Nikos Nakos, the defense attorney in the state of Indiana’s murder case against Marcus Dansby, was removed as counsel by Allen Superior Court
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Authorities in the central province of Henan on Thursday rejected an appeal from a man sentenced to death for killing a police officer who was forcibly escorting him home from a petitioning trip in the Chinese capital.Veteran activist Xu Youchen and his wife Zhang Xiaoyu were initially both
The U.S. Supreme Court halted the planned execution on Thursday of an Alabama man convicted of murdering a police officer in 1985 after attorneys petitioned to spare the man’s life, arguing that he had suffered several strokes that left him unable to remember the crime.Vernon Madison, 67, has
Philippine legal procedure is horribly ill-equipped for 21st century transnational issues like human trafficking and modern slavery, the drug trade, terrorism, regional environmental degradation, money laundering, and the legal needs of the Filipino diaspora, all of which cross state bordersThe
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The U.S. Supreme Court won't take up a Nebraska death row inmate's latest challenge to his sentence.John Lotter, who was convicted in the killing that inspired the 1999 movie "Boys Don't Cry," was seeking review of an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals order July 31 denying him permission to go
Attorneys for a Nevada death row inmate whose execution is on hold are telling the state Supreme Court that his execution using a never-before-tried lethal injection protocol would be less humane than veterinary euthanasia.Nevada's plan to put a death row inmate to death using a 1st-of-its-kind
The embezzlement trial began Wednesday for a former executive at Vietnam's state oil giant who Germany said was kidnapped from there by Vietnamese agents last year.Trinh Xuan Thanh was the former chairman of state energy giant PetroVietnam's construction arm and is accused of embezzling $622,000
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The current state of affairs renders women even more susceptible to destitution, harm and exploitation.The forthcoming Domestic Violence Bill must prioritise safety, equality, dignity and liberty for migrant women.Anything less is discriminatory, unjust and completely antithetical to aTALLAHASSEE — After issuing another batch of 10 rulings Friday, the Florida Supreme Court this week rejected a total of 40 death-penalty appeals on similar legal grounds. The 40 appeals all were filed on behalf of Death Row inmates who received their sentences before June 2002, though the Supreme
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APA News - Two Nigerians convicted of drug offenses in Saudi Arabia have been executed, the Vanguard reports on Saturday, quoting prison sources in the kingdom.Local news reports suggest that since Ibrahim Ciroma and Maimidu Issah were executed by hanging last week, a sense of trepidation has
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Some detainees arrested in the protests that broke out in Iran's Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces in December 2017 are facing charges that are punishable by death, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned."Some of them have been investigated, interrogated and charged with
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5 death row inmates sued Pennsylvania prison officials on Thursday, challenging a policy that keeps the convicts isolated most of the time and calling the practice degrading and inhumane.The federal lawsuit asks the court to end mandatory, indefinite solitary confinement for the 156 men on death
Pakistani Leader Should Raise Case with Visiting President JokowiThis week's visit by Indonesia President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to Pakistan may determine how Zulfiqar Ali spends his final days - on death row in Indonesia, or with his family back home in Pakistan.Ali, a 53-year-old father of 5 from
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5:38 p.m. local time: The Supreme Court of the United States has issued a temporary stay of execution, which means the execution is delayed until the court issues another order. The state has until midnight to start the execution or face having to go back to the Alabama Supreme Court to set a new
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A lorry driver was sent to the gallows by the High Court here today after being found guilty of counts of trafficking over 45 kg of drugs, 2 years ago.Judicial Commissioner Datuk Mohamad Shariff Abu Samah meted out the sentence against S. Gopi Kumar, 33, after finding that the prosecution had
Florida prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty for a 24-year-old man they say is responsible for randomly killing 4 people in a Tampa neighborhood will face the death penalty, according to news reports.Howell Emanuel Donaldson III was charged with 1st-degree murder in the deaths of
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The European Union has sharply criticized Belarus for sentencing 2 men to death, and repeated its call for President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government to abolish capital punishment.Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini, said on January 23 that the Minsk city
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeal of a repeat rapist and murderer who has been on Arizona’s death row for 40 years for a string of grisly crimes in Maricopa County.The justices without comment Monday declined to hear Joseph Clarence Smith’s claim that the jury
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Saudi Arabia has been one of the five top executing countries in the world for more than a decade. Having put more than 300 people to death in the past two years, this trend shows no sign of stopping.The death penalty in Saudi Arabia is regularly imposed for ‘protest-related offences’, including
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For 19 years, I directed the masters in public policy program at University of Northern Iowa. Our goal was to give students the skills to analyze complex public policy issues. However, there are some issues that don’t require advanced analytical skills to evaluate — just a good dose of common
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A little-known S.C. law, on the books for nearly a decade, exempts the state from performing an autopsy on a death-row inmate who has been executed.That means if a lethal-injection execution doesn’t go according to plan, the state is not required to conduct an autopsy, a procedure that could shed
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We are all terrified that it could happen to us and that our children are not safe in their schools, homes or even on the streets. What happened to that beautiful little girl is everyone's worst nightmare - and for her parents, an excruciating reality.There are no words. But there is anger. Anger
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William Rayford faces his 1st execution date on Tuesday, Jan. 30, for the 1999 kidnapping and murder of ex-girlfriend Carol Hall. The 64-year-old Dallas native was on parole at the time, as part of a 23-year sentence for murdering his wife.Last week, Rayford's attorney Bruce Anton asked that the
A Pakistani Senate committee has proposed to publicly hang those who sexually abuse or murder children. The measure is a response to the gruesome case of a Pakistani 7-year-old girl who was raped and killed earlier in January.Part of the Pakistani Penal Code (PPC) on the punishment of child
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A new museum of women’s history is set to open in a permanent home at the end of 2019.The East End Women’s Museum was established in 2015 in response to the Ripper Museum which opened on Cable Street, but it has since operated – without a building – by organising events, workshops, and pop up25
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The Supreme Court has paved the way for a death row inmate to be put to death on Thursday, despite his lawyers pleading he doesn't currently remember his crime or even understand his looming execution.Attorneys for Vernon Madison petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday asking them to review
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Federal prosecutors will decide by Sept. 1 on whether to seek the death penalty against the ISIS-inspired terrorist truck driver jailed in a deadly Halloween rampage.The deadline was announced during a Tuesday hearing where bearded suspect Sayfullo Saipov, handcuffed and wearing a blue prison
Three French women who joined the Islamic State (IS) armed group before being captured by Iraqi forces could face the death penalty as they await trial in Baghdad.The women were detained after Iraqi fighters ousted the jihadists from Mosul last July, one source said, confirming a report on RMC
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Very few of them were in any way concerned about her circumstances or her plight.Ruhama, Ireland’s only dedicated national frontline NGO supporting women affected by prostitution and sex trafficking, has released a short video about their ‘Andreea’ campaign and what it exposes about the views23
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The gendered nature of online violence deserves to be addressed in research, policy and prevention.From April to November 2017, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) led a six-month project that aimed at analysing the current state of online violence against women and girls in Europe.In order to