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It is now three years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. On 11 March 2011, one of the most powerful earthquakes on record hit north-east Japan. The resulting tsunami killed almost 20,000 people, and caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Kaori Saito watched the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster unfold on TV from her... It is now three years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. On 11 March 2011, one of the most powerful earthquakes on record hit north-east Japan. The resulting tsunami killed almost 20,000 people, and caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Kaori Saito watched the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster unfold on TV from her living room in Fukushima City13
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2014
An academic looks at what was a ‘scare’ in the UK, and a ‘scandale’ in France. On March 16, 2010, officials from the French Health Security Agency (AFSSAPS) made a preannounced visit in Southern France to a manufacturer of silicone breast implants called PIP12
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2014
New online project launched to celebrate Sheroes of History. My name is Naomi. I run a feminist group in Coventry and work in a museum. I’m really excited to spread the word about a new project I have just launched which will tell the untold stories of history’s heroines12
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2014
Iran executed 331 people for drug-related charges in 2013, a new report published today by the non-profit organisation Iran Human Rights reveals.The findings will put further pressure on the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and a number of European countries which continue to12
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2014
And caring responsibilities need to be underpinned by new employment rights. A rigid workplace culture is making it difficult for older women to balance their careers with caring responsibilities, leading to decades of low pay at the end of their working lives and poverty in retirement, a11
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An Emirati court has sentenced a Pakistani man to death after convicting him of trafficking four kilograms of heroin in the Gulf country, media reported Monday. The defendant, identified only by his initials W.A., was arrested in a sting operation when a police officer posed as a client11
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2014
When women join together it is a powerful movement. When we cycle together, it is a lot of fun. This year the third CycloFemme is taking place; an event where women come together on two wheels to create change. CycloFemme is an opportunity for cyclists around the world to make a10
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2014
The Home Office has hidden the reality of men’s lethal violence against women and girls for too long. Karen Ingala Smith is petitioning Theresa May to stop ignoring dead women. This is why: On New Year’s Day, 2012, 20 year-old Kirsty Treloar got a text from her boyfriend Myles10
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Documents abuses of women in detention based on interviews with women and girls in prison. On 11 March a public meeting will be held in House of Commons Committee Room 17 to discuss the recent Human Rights Watch report on the abuse of Iraqi women in detention. The 105-page report, ‘No
In the attack, suspected Al Qaida suicide bombers posing as Saudi police blew up a car in a Riyadh compound Riyadh: A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced three men to death and jailed two others for up to 17 years for their part in a series of militant attacks including the deadly bombing09
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The execution wave continues in Iran. In another show of horror, four prisoners were hanged in one of the streets of Bandar Abbas (Southern Iran) early this morning. More than 160 people have been executed since the beginning of 2014. Iran Human Rights, March 8, 2014: Four men were07
Mar
2014
Louisiana corrections officials must reveal the manufacturer and source of the state's lethal injection drugs within the week, a federal judge ordered Wednesday (March 5). U.S. District Judge James J. Brady also ordered the names of the staff and healthcare professionals involved in13
Mar
2014
They could have settled with the workers they underpaid. Instead, they paid London lawyers ‘to defend the indefensible’. Many former cooks, cleaners and carers are now eligible for up to £100,000 after proving unfair discrimination. Up to 5,000 women may benefit from the12
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2014
March 11, 2014: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has failed to fulfil campaign promises to allow greater freedom of expression and there has been a sharp rise in executions since his election. In a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Ban12
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2014
‘Merit is clearly not enough’. A Cambridge college asked its former students about their working life, with revealing results. One of the few all-female colleges at Cambridge University, Murray Edwards College – better known as New Hall – asked 1,000 former students11
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2014
Bali's Kerobokan Prison The Corby family's inept handling of Schapelle's first weeks of freedom has angered one of the Bali Nine members, who believes it may turn Indonesian authorities against other Australians in the prison system. Martin Stephens, who is serving a life11
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2014
Glenn Ford in 1984 A black man was convicted by an all-white jury in Louisiana 30 years ago following a capital trial that was constitutionally deficient in almost every way. Now he may be released from death row not because the courts remedied the injustices that swamped his11
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2014
‘Standing shoulder to shoulder with one another the fear disappeared.’ Women in Coventry took part in the first Reclaim the Night march in Coventry City centre for 30 years recently. Over a hundred women attended, proudly carrying placards and banners, marching through the10
Mar
2014
Every year on International Women’s Day we hear the same question. And there is what I want to say and what I actually say when I’m asked ““Why is there a Women’s Day, why isn’t there a Men’s Day?” or “Why isn’t there a Men’s09
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2014
Public execution in Iran TEHRAN — Born into a poor family in one of Tehran’s most desolate neighborhoods, at age 17 Safar Anghouti had little to look forward to beyond a lifetime in his father’s business — rummaging through trash on the streets of the
Jakarta. A Malaysian couple convicted of starving their Indonesian domestic helper to death was sentenced to death by the Shah Alam High Court on Thursday, according to reports in local media. Fong Kong Meng, 58, and his wife Teoh Ching Yen, 56, were sentenced to death by hanging for the09
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2014
Five death row convicts got some relief on Friday after the Delhi High Court refused to confirm their death sentences and modified the same to life imprisonment while holding that the case did not fall under the “rarest of rare” category or honour killing. A Bench of Justices07
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Makers and suppliers of Alabama's execution drugs would be kept secret and not released to the public or the courts under a bill approved Thursday in the Alabama House of Representatives. House members voted 77-19 for the bill being sought by the Alabama13
Mar
2014
Women lag behind men on most dimensions of job quality. An international report has found women in more underpaid, stressful and inflexible work compared to male counterparts. In a report published recently by the British Sociological Association (BSA), academics tested out their
A newly recruited hangman in Sri Lanka has resigned in shock after being shown the gallows for the first time. The country has not carried out a judicial execution since 1976 but has over 400 prisoners on death row. The authorities want to have an executioner ready in case hangings12
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Offensive. Women! Microsoft would like you to meet the computer. It’s a handy device that you can use to plan your wedding. The company’s latest ad campaign, which is called ‘Honestly’, shows a bride-to-be sitting with her friends. And it shows how, thanks to the
Public flogging in Iran NCRI - The Iranian regime's judiciary in Kurdistan province of Iran has lashed a teacher for "insulting a government employee while on duty." Payman Nowdinian, a member of teachers association in Kurdistan had been sentenced to 20 lashes by mullahs11
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2014
Record numbers of women are now billionaires, according to the 2014 Forbes list. But what exactly does that mean? ‘Girl Power!’ the Daily Mail said of the record number of women making the 2014 Forbes list of billionaires. But is that really the message the record sends out11
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The Sun lent Tuesday’s Page Three to support breast cancer awareness charity CoppaFeel. One of the most talked-about recent stories. A divisive decision. Here I recall some of the week’s best analysis. One of the most fiercely critical responses this week came from Fay Schopen10
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2014
Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Bath: 10 March: After Tiller plus Q&A at Screen 2, The Little Theatre Cinema, Bath, from 6pm. The film ‘After Tiller’ explores the highly controversial subject of late-term09
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2014
Public execution in Iran Iran has stepped up executions, and believes in doing so, it has earned the gratitude of mankind. The Islamic republic's execution rate, which has soared to ghastly heights since self-described moderate Hassan Rouhani became president last year
BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, is considering reducing the number of crimes subject to the death penalty, an NPC official said on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing parliamentary session, Zang07
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2014
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld lower court rulings that sentenced a man to death for killing 16 people by setting fire to a video-viewing parlor in Osaka in 2008 in a failed suicide attempt. The highest court's 5-justice first petty bench led by Justice Tomoyuki Yokota turned down07
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A 21 year old man was hanged in Northern Iran for an alleged murder he committed at the age of 17. Despite ratifying the UN Convention for the Child’s Rights, Iranian authorities continue execution of juvenile offenders. Iran Human Rights, March 7, 2014: The local news website