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Migrant workers make up a third (8 million) of the population and over half the workforce in Saudi Arabia. They are mainly unskilled labourers and domestic workers (jobs the Saudis don’t want to do), are inadequately protected by labour laws and are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse by their employers, including excessive working hours,... Migrant workers make up a third (8 million) of the population and over half the workforce in Saudi Arabia. They are mainly unskilled labourers and domestic workers (jobs the Saudis don’t want to do), are inadequately protected by labour laws and are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse by their employers, including excessive working hours, wages withheld for months or years09
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Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) The Israeli Foreign Ministry tried to convince South Africa's apartheid regime not to seek the death penalty in Nelson Mandela's 1964 trial, newly released documents reveal. According to the documents, which were declassified by the Israel State
A Missouri execution postponed last month amid debate over the state's choice of execution drug is set to take place Wednesday. Allen Nicklasson was convicted in the 1994 slaying of Excelsior Springs businessman Richard Drummond, who stopped to help when a car used by Nicklasson and 2
A Pakistani man, identified as Mohammed Zayer Khan Qol, was beheaded on Sunday after he was found guilty of smuggling drugs into the Gulf state by the Saudi authorities. The accused was convicted of smuggling a large amount of heroin into the country. According to a tally based
Bangladesh's Supreme Court today cleared the way for the execution of a senior leader of the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, 3 months after it overturned a tribunal's ruling that sentenced him to life for genocide during the 1971 war. The apex court headed by Chief Justice M Muzammel07
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On facing the death penalty, Nelson Mandela spoke from the dock at the culmination of the Rivonia Trial in April 1964: "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have
Karen Robertson – Telegraph – Friday, 06 December 2013 I was on a bus brimming with the exuberance of South African women singing freedom songs. It was August 9, 1999, National Women’s Day, and we were on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela’s prison for 18 of his 27 years behind
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Three-day event in London to showcase female talent. From 16-18 December the Women in the Arts festival will bring together women producers, writers, actors, poets, musicians, comedians, artists and directors to foster collaboration, build mutual support and to examine how we can06
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There's another bill in the Ohio House of Representatives to abolish the death penalty. Democratic State Representative Nickie Antonio is one of the bill's sponsors. She says the death penalty needs to be banned because it currently is levied disproportionately upon African Americans and05
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WNN Breaking (WNN) Denver, Colorado, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Militarism and its push toward military armed violence is one of the leading factors contributing today to violence against women worldwide, says a new campaign for human rights advocates Amnesty International. Working to coordinate
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‘An influential figure from art history and important for feminism’. The Hayward Gallery’s current exhibition ‘Ana Mendieta: Traces’ is the UK’s first retrospective of one of the most significant yet under-acknowledged artists of the late 20th century. It
Ohio Death Chamber There is rare issue of agreement in the 2014 gubernatorial campaign: Both Republican incumbent John Kasich and his likely Democratic challenger Ed FitzGerald oppose legislative efforts to eliminate the death penalty in Ohio. At the statehouse Tuesday09
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Here are some woman-centric events going on around the UK this week for your diary. Belfast: 9 December: Women in Parliament at Greenway Women’s Centre, 19 Greenway, Cregagh Estate, Belfast. Greenway Women’s Centre is hosting Clare Mullin from the Houses of Parliament08
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The state of Oklahoma is scheduled to execute 2 convicted killers this month. Ronald Clinton Lott is to be put to death Tuesday for the deaths of 2 elderly women in the 1980s while Johnny Dale Black is set for execution on Dec. 17 for the stabbing death of man in Ringling. The 2 men will
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) In its 1st major decision, South Africa's recently created supreme court abolished the death penalty today, ending a decades-old practice of executing criminals convicted of serious crimes that had once given the country one of the world's highest07
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ISLAMABAD: In a written statement to the Senate on Friday, the Foreign Ministry said that Pakistan's case for greater access to European markets would be substantially weaker if it does not abolish the death penalty. In the written response, the Foreign Ministry said that the case ofEmma Batha for Thomson Reuters Foundation – WNN Improve It (WNN/TRF) London, UNITED KINGDOM, WESTERN EUROPE: Syria’s civil war has caused a big increase in ‘honor killings’ and child marriages and the breakdown of the healthcare system, a British-Syrian doctor said on
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The stark reality of the cuts is that women and children fleeing abuse have fewer places to run to. A new report from Women’s Aid, a national charity working to end domestic violence against women and children, shows the huge gap in funding for domestic violence (DV) services in the UK
The appealed court hearing of a woman in Ibb who had been sentenced to death in a self-defense case has been postponed until the end of December due to the resignation of the judge presiding over the case. Raja Al-Hakami, 29, was imprisoned in October 2010 for shooting a 37-year-old man06
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We want every young person, teacher and parent to challenge this language and change the culture of our schools. The UK’s Minister for Women and Equality Jo Swinson MP, launched a project set up to confront homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools on 21 November, in the05
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‘Girls and young women are just as likely to be harassed at school as on the street’. Sexism is affecting the everyday lives of 75 per cent of Britain’s young women and girls, according to new research released by Girlguiding. The report, ‘Girls’ Attitudes
Execution in Gaza, October 2013 RAMALLAH, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- A Hamas military court on Thursday sentenced a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip to death for collaborating with Israel, a statement said. The statement from the military judiciary did not give further informationThe Federal Shariat Court (FSC) has ordered for deletion of life imprisonment term from "Tahafaz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat" law, saying sentence in blasphemy case is only death sentence and awarding any other punishment in this respect is not lawful. A 5-member larger bench of the FSC, headed by09
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Separate but equal; where have we heard that before? Universities UK, the representative organisation for the UK’s universities, apparently believes that gender segregation is acceptable at British universities. It has claimed that segregation should be permitted in talks by externalIn 1964, when Nelson Mandela and others were facing the death penalty, one newspaper, the Observer, kept the issue before the world's eyes, and effectively saved the ANC leadership Writing in the 20-page Mandela supplement inside today's paper, author Jeremy Lewis, who is currently
A circuit court judge who halted lethal injections in 2010 has declined to lift that injunction, ruling yesterday that a lawsuit brought by death row inmates over Kentucky's execution procedures has some unresolved issues. Franklin County Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd denied a motion by
The 1,800 prisoners of Qezel Hessar Prison who had gone on hunger strike against the death penalty ended their strike after authorities made a series of promises. HRANA reports that on Wednesday morning, judicial and prison officials visited prisoners in ward 2 of Qezel Hessar and assured06
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WNN Breaking (WNN/NWI) Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, AMERICAS: The women of Sudan are facing a crisis of sexual violence with no end in sight. This is the finding of a new report released today by The International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict that documents the
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Review of a short film based on a story written by a woman previously involved in prostitution. The premiere of an 11-minute film - Honest Lies - by screenwriter and producer Gabriella Apicella, recently took place at Amnesty International’s headquarters in front of06
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Indonesian authorities have separately arrested a German man and an Austrian woman for attempting to smuggle methamphetamine into the country, officials said Thursday, an offense punishable by death. The German, 49, arrived at Jakarta’s international airport from the Senegal capitalWNN Breaking (WNN) Denver, Colorado, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: At the age of 95 one of the world’s greatest human rights icons has died. His Excellancy Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela died peacefully in his home in the neighborhood of Houghton in Johannesburg. Before this he spent time near the
Never before has Tennessee asked to execute so many of the condemned. Officials here, believing they are free of the latest round of challenges to Tennessee's death penalty, recently asked the state Supreme Court for execution dates for 10 death row inmates. One of those 10, Billy Ray05
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In a land of punishingly bad food, the vending machines are the stuff of dreams The people who visit inmates on San Quentin's death row are a mixed bag. Women by a large majority, plus a few toddlers, lawyers, religious nuts, activist journalists and the occasional serial killer05
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Arizona Death Chamber Jodi Arias' sentencing retrial will occur in virtual privacy, as the presiding judge has ruled in favor of a media blackout. Cameras are not permitted into the courtroom as Arias' fate is once again put in the hands of a jury, declared Maricopa County