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KFC are coming under social media fire for their latest ‘Triple Xtra’ burger advert. Not only is the ad depressingly unoriginal, but it also relies on a combination of nagging girlfriend cliché and a cringe-inducing slogan (‘IT’S MAN TIME!!!’). The sexist ad is causing some would-be customers to lose their... KFC are coming under social media fire for their latest ‘Triple Xtra’ burger advert. Not only is the ad depressingly unoriginal, but it also relies on a combination of nagging girlfriend cliché and a cringe-inducing slogan (‘IT’S MAN TIME!!!’). The sexist ad is causing some would-be customers to lose their appetite for the burger that KFC describe25
Feb
2014
Starting a trip to Easter Island in the footsteps of anthropologist Katherine Routledge. A British woman is running, cycling and hitching lifts on container ships to get to the world’s most isolated island 100 years after another inspirational explorer made the same trip. Runner Susie24
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2014
Women’s conference calls for more support for women, especially for working women. UNISON is calling for free emergency housing for all women fleeing domestic violence. UNISON is one of Britain’s largest unions, and more than two thirds of its.1.3 million members are women
Texas Death House My name is Kerry Max Cook, but for 2 decades, I was known as "Cook, Execution number 600." Innocent of the murder and rape I was accused of in 1977, my home became a tiny death row cell in Texas, the state that kills more people than anywhere else in the U.S23
Feb
2014
Execution Chamberat Tokyo Detention Center Despite government figures, the Japanese public appears increasingly skeptical of capital punishment. Since conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in December 2012, eight Japanese prisoners have been executed. A 200923
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2014
Public execution in Saudi Arabia Riyadh: A Saudi citizen convicted of murder was beheaded on Sunday, the interior ministry announced, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom this year to 10. Salem Al Jahdali beat fellow tribesman Abdullah Al Jahdali to death
The Virginia Department of Corrections said Thursday that it has approved the sedative midazolam as an alternative first drug in the state's three-drug execution protocol. Midazolam was one of two drugs used in last month's execution of an Ohio inmate who made snorting and gasping sounds and21
Feb
2014
‘Brave’ and the legacy of female prepubescent power fantasies. Our regular cross-post from Bitchflicks. Brave is actually situated within a somewhat prolific trope of female prepubescent power fantasy tales. By Amanda Rodriguez. I liked Disney Pixar’s Brave well enough
February 19, 2014: Emirati football player Fayez Juma, who was sentenced to death, has been pardoned by the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi. He has been sentenced to three years in jail and ordered to fast for two consecutive months, as per Shariah law. Fayez’s lawyer Salem Obaid20
Feb
2014
Atlas crane used for an execution in Iran The chairman of a German company whose cranes are reportedly being used for public hangings in Iran lashed out at critics and dismissed calls for his company to end its relationship with Tehran on humanitarian grounds. German20
Feb
2014
First results of survey show women are forced to chose between family and work. Project 28-40, a research project which aims to find out why women in their 30s fail to progress in their careers at the same rate as men, has released its first results. Since November, 25,000 women and19
Feb
2014
I believe capital punishment is one of the critical social justice issues of our country, and is, in many ways, the sharp edge of a deeply flawed criminal justice system. With 143 convicted death row inmates exonerated to date, an increasing awareness of how race, poverty and geography25
Feb
2014
Ask your MP to vote for a Cumulative Impact Assessment and to end the Work Capability Assessment. By Sue Marsh. In 2013 a Resistance to the War on Welfare (WOW) petition was signed by over 104,000 people and secured a debate in the main chamber at the House of Commons, which is scheduled for24
Feb
2014
Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. Bristol: 1 March: Rights and Reasons: International Women’s Rights Conference at Broadmead Baptist Church and Conference Centre, Union Street, Bristol from 9.30 – 4pm. To mark
"Death Row Stories" is a new 8-part series premiering on March 9 on CNN that will examine actual death penalty cases. The show is produced by Robert Redford and narrated by Dead Man Walking star Susan Sarandon. Redford said, "This series is about the search for justice and
NCRI - The families of inmates in the main prison in southern city of Ahwaz have reported that the death sentences for many prisoners have been confirmed by the Iranian regime's judiciary. The death sentences issued for the prisoners have been sent to the country's capital to be confirmed23
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2014
Jakarta Police arrested seven suspected drug traffickers at the capital’s airport and other locations earlier this month with 6.5 kilogram of crystal methamphetamine worth Rp 13 billion ($1.1 million), a police spokesman said. “The drug division has successfully arrested seven21
Feb
2014
Sicilian photographer and photojournalist Letizia Battaglia: exhibition in Liverpool. Letizia Battaglia worked on the front-line as a photo-reporter during one of the most tragic periods in contemporary Italian history, known as the ‘anni di piombo’ &ndash21
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2014
Daft pseudo-scientific excuses have been used to exclude women from sports. It may have taken 90 years, but women were finally able to compete in the ski-jumping at this year’s winter Olympic Games at Sochi. Although women have been ski-jumping since Ingrid Vestby first soared through20
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2014
(CNN) -- A judge has ordered that accused Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes undergo an additional sanity examination, saying there was good cause to believe previous testing was "incomplete and inadequate," according to a ruling issued Wednesday. Arapahoe County District Judge20
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2014
Manama: A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to five years in jail and to 2,400 lashes for assaulting his mother. The man, in his 30s, will also have one tooth broken after he broke his mother’s tooth when he beat her as she was riding with him in a car, the court in Makkah20
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2014
“These are entry-level jobs into a world of gross exploitation and violence.” The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has paid cash incentives of up to £2,275 to lap-dancing bars and similar establishments to hire young unemployed people aged 18-24 as part of its Youth19
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2014
On January 19, Dennis McGuire died gasping and choking during a lethal injection administered by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. “Over those 11 minutes or more he was fighting for breath, and I could see both of his fists were clenched the entire time,&rdquo24
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‘Another thoroughly wasted opportunity to ensure patient safety’. The government’s response to Sir Bruce Keogh’s recent recommendations for overhauling the cosmetic treatment industry is welcome as far as it goes, but overall is “”too little, too late&rdquo24
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2014
Million Women Rise: 8 March 2014. Violence devastates the lives of so many women, families and communities. Just look at the reality of the UK today: One woman in four will experience domestic violence at some point in her life; Domestic violence has more repeat victims than any otherA South Dakota legislative panel has decided the state should keep the death penalty. After hearing from relatives of 2 murder victims, the House State Affairs Committee voted 7-6 to reject a measure that would have repealed the death penalty. The measure would have banned the death
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When the history of the long, slow decline of capital punishment in America is written, a footnote must be reserved for the Apothecary Shoppe of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Do not be deceived by the name. Quaint and cosy it may sound, but until this month the company was the unofficial supplier of the
Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev added a second death penalty expert to his defense team today, less than a month after federal prosecutors announced they would seek execution if he is convicted in the deadly attacks, according to court papers. U.S. District Court Judge21
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(Reuters) - At least 80 people and perhaps as many as 95 have been executed in Iran already this year, a surge in the use of the death penalty that has dampened hopes for human rights reforms under President Hassan Rouhani, the United Nations said on Friday. Rouhani, who won a surprise20
Feb
2014
Florida Death Chamber The state corrections official who stands beside condemned inmates as they take their last breaths in Florida's death chamber recently pulled back the veil on what has largely been a very secretive execution process. The testimony was given during a20
Feb
2014
Jakarta. Paroled Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby could find herself back behind bars if she goes ahead with a planned tell-all interview slated to run on an Australian news network, an Indonesian official warned on Tuesday. The interview, for which Corby was allegedly offered20
Feb
2014
Women’s Aid calls for government to take action on online abuse. Three in ten women have been stalked or harassed online through email and social media platforms, including Facebook, according to a poll by Women’s Aid, the national domestic violence charity. And much of the abuse19
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2014
Screen shot from "Dead Man Walking" BRUSSELS (AP) — There’s one big reason the United States has a dearth of execution drugs so acute that some states are considering solutions such as firing squads and gas chambers: Europe won’t allow the drugs to be19
Feb
2014
I saw this poster again the other day. It encapsulates one of the strongest rows about inequality. The TUC recently reported that women over 50 earn a staggering fifth less than men of the same age, and on average women earn £5000 less than men a year. And the gap widens in some