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Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday he was suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state, announcing a move that he hopes will enable officials to "join a growing national conversation about capital punishment." The Democrat said he came to the decision after months of review, meetings with family members of victims, prosecutors and law... Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday he was suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state, announcing a move that he hopes will enable officials to "join a growing national conversation about capital punishment." The Democrat said he came to the decision after months of review, meetings with family members of victims, prosecutors and law enforcement. "There have been12
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2014
A core purpose of honour killings is to remove all memory of the victims. Memini intends to do the opposite. TRIGGER WARNING: THIS IS VERY UPSETTING. The United Nations conservatively estimates that worldwide 5,000 women and girls are killed each year by members of their own family, often12
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2014
Three joint winners united by one tragedy; the ‘honour killing’ of one of their family. The third IKWRO True Honour Awards 2014 saw three campaigners awarded joint winners following the tragic loss of their relative to ‘honour based violence‘. Jagdeesh Singh11
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Despite the controversy over how Missouri has carried out its past three executions, a state House hearing on Monday revealed little that hasn't already been reported: - The Department of Corrections has been obtaining its execution drug from an Oklahoma compounding pharmacy that the11
Feb
2014
Public execution of a womanin Iran What do the masterful male executioners of Saudi Arabia think of when they hack off the head of a woman in a public marketplace? What of the Iranian state executioner who heard 23-year-old Delara Darabi screaming to her mother for help down11
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Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby was freed from prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali Monday after more than nine years behind bars. Corby was ushered out of prison into a green minibus, as crowds of journalists waited outside the prison and scores of police stood guard
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COLOMBO, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Maldives government has approved the death penalty and will soon enact regulations on the process of execution, local media reported here on Monday. Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Muaz Ali was quoted as saying the government has observed increasing11
Feb
2014
How did The Sun respond? By the No More Page 3 campaign. On Sunday, a woman won the UK’s first EVER snow medal at the Winter Olympics. British snowboarder Jenny Jones took home the bronze medal on Sunday in the snowboarding “slopestyle” competition. Wow, WOW!!! It was10
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Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. 14 February: One Billion Rising for Justice events are going on all around the UK; check here for details. One in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. That is one08
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2014
EU High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy Catherine Ashton Friday welcomed the announcement that United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, ordered a stay on all executions in the UAE on 29 January. "I hope this will constitute07
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2014
NEW DELHI February 7, 2014 (AP) - India acceded to Italy's request and said Friday it won't invoke an anti-piracy law carrying the death penalty when it tries two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen. A Home Ministry official said the government had decided against07
Feb
2014
Not all children taught about consent at school, and we have no compulsory sex education. A survey of children and young people conducted by the Sex Education Forum, based at leading children’s charity the National Children’s Bureau, has found that almost one in three say they did12
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2014
Jakarta. A two-decade-long tragedy born of shame in East Nusa Tenggara took another step toward finality on Tuesday after the Supreme Court imposed the death penalty on a former Catholic priest for the deaths of his lover, a former nun, and their two newborn children. “I’m not12
Feb
2014
Sylvia Pankhurst made a profound impact on the fight for women’s rights as both an artist and a campaigner. A display about Sylvia Pankhurst at London’s Tate Britian, devised by curator Emma Chambers with The Emily Davison Lodge as part of the Tate’s Spotlight series is up11
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2014
Dzkokhar Tsarnaev BOSTON -- The trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzkokhar Tsarnaev is expected to last three months, plus another six weeks if he is convicted and jurors have to decide whether he should be put to death, prosecutors said Monday. The trial estimate11
Feb
2014
The Egyptian presidency upheld the death penalty for 14 people convicted of attacking police in North Sinai in 2011, signaling the army-backed authorities' determination to press a campaign against Islamist militants. The condemned men, all from the Tawheed wal Jihad ("Monotheism and Holy11
Feb
2014
You wouldn’t think school girls in the UK have to worry about female genital mutilation, but we do. Although it is illegal in the UK, it is still happening – 24,000 girls in the UK are currently at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM). People just don’t talk about it11
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2014
In a barbaric act on Wednesday, February 5, the anti-human clerical regime secretly and collectively hanged 15 Baluchi political prisoners in the prison of Chahbahar. Khossrow Barahoui, a local from Loutak in Zabol, 2 brothers from Rigi tribe, 2 brothers from Mir tribe, and a merchant by the11
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2014
Sexual violence is not about evil individuals, Asian grooming gangs, or 1970s BBC culture. By Sarah Graham. A number of years ago I heard British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalist Bidisha quote feminist academic Germaine Greer: “The corporation changes the woman before the10
Feb
2014
It is estimated that one in three women will be beaten or raped in her lifetime – that is 1 billion women. The refusal to hold perpetrators to account is a ‘global plague’ – and this year the one billion rising campaign will focus on justice and is calling08
Feb
2014
Ohio Death Chamber Unresolved concerns about the drugs used to execute Dennis McGuire last month prompted Gov. John Kasich yesterday to postpone the scheduled March 19 lethal injection of Gregory Lott. Without comment, Kasich rescheduled Lott’s execution, delaying it
RICHMOND, Va (WVIR) - Lawmakers in the state legislature have killed a controversial death penalty bill - at least until next year. Due to a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs, the bill filed in the state Senate proposed using electrocution as Virginia’s secondary means
“The main female characters are all dying, dead, or not human”. Our regular cross-post from Bitchflicks. By Katherine Murray. Um… spoilers for Battlestar Galactica. What Battlestar Galactica is: To recap for anyone who isn’t familiar with the show but still12
Feb
2014
Sochi Olympic Site SOCHI, Russia -- An activist who shed the light on the environmental impact of Olympic construction in Sochi was ordered Wednesday to serve three years in prison for spray-painting a fence. A court in the regional capital of Krasnodar converted the12
Feb
2014
Experts call for world-wide, wholesale change in preventing gender-based violence. Following several newly published reports and data sets, activists around the world are calling for a complete rethink of the way gender-based violence is dealt with. And recent events emphasise the urgent11
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Three leading anti-death penalty groups have appealed to the United Nations to freeze counter-narcotics aid to Vietnam after the country sentenced 30 people to die for drugs offences. The call - from Reprieve, Harm Reduction International (HRI) and the World Coalition Against the Death11
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A man from another Gulf country could be executed for raping five boys in Abu Dhabi after seducing them to come with him to the top of buildings where they lived, claiming he wanted to show them the birds, the press reported on Monday. The unnamed man, 39, first denied he was giving moneyFebruary 6, 2014: A Gaza military court sentenced a man convicted of collaborating with Israel to death and another to life in prison on the same charge. The court did not determine a date for his execution. It said the evidence proved the defendant was guilty. Neither defendant was
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Acas publishes guidelines for employers. The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) published new guidelines for employers recently aimed at helping them create ‘an accommodating environment’ for women who are breast feeding. The booklet, called10
Feb
2014
It’s everywhere. By Dwysan Rowena. I re-read this fabulous article on casual sexism by Natascha McElhone recently. This was my response at the time: For someone like me who is a bit obsessed with equality and feminism it was even a bit of a surprise to me that her day consisted of08
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2014
The Malaysian government’s move to halt an execution scheduled for today is positive but the lives of hundreds of others on death row are still at risk, Amnesty International said. Malaysian authorities had planned to execute murder convict Chandran Paskaran today, but after an07
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2014
Typical cell at Kerobokan Prison, Bali. Bali/Jakarta. - Convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby will soon walk free from a notorious Bali prison after Indonesia’s justice minister confirmed on Friday that she had been granted parole, bringing to an end her nine years07
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2014
Death Chamber atTokyo Detention Center Japan's opinion polls skewed, exaggerate support: Oxford expert LONDON – When defending Japan’s use of the death penalty, the government always cites overwhelming public support for the policy, and the last survey in 200907
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2014
Airlines continue to perpetuate 1960s-style stereotypes around female flight attendants. In an episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’, serial womaniser Barney Stinson goes on a monologue about “hot” professions. Air stewardesses, he insists, no longer hold this dubious