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Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi
figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da
qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so
called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali
The Guardian
The fight to vote is supported by
guardian.org
25 Feb 2022
By Sam Levine
<<Judge orders new trial for US woman sentenced to six years for
trying to register to vote. A Memphis judge has ordered a new trial for
Pamela Moses, a woman who was sentenced to six years in prison for
trying to register to vote. The case attracted national attention in
recent weeks, following a Guardian report, because of the severity of
the sentence. Moses said she had no idea she was ineligible. Moses has
been in prison since December, when her bond was revoked. On Thursday,
the Guardian revealed new evidence in the case that had not been
produced at the trial. Moses was being released from custody on Friday,
according to Claiborne Ferguson, her attorney. <We are so excited that
the motion for new trial was granted for Pamela Moses today and that she
is able to return home to her family while she awaits trial. We hope
that she receives justice and is found not guilty for the admitted
mistakes of the state of Tennessee,> said Dawn Harrington, the executive
director of Free Hearts, a criminal justice organization in Tennessee
that supported Moses. Moses was convicted last year for submitting a
document in 2019 indicating she was eligible to vote. Prosecutors said
she knew that this was false, because just months before a judge issued
an order telling Moses she was still on probation for a 2015 felony. In
Tennessee, people on felony probation cannot vote. When she turned in
the form, Moses believed that the probation for her 2015 felony had
expired, and a probation officer even signed a certificate indicating
that this was the case and that she was eligible. Prosecutors said that
Moses deceived the officer into signing the certificate. But evidence
obtained by the Guardian this week showed that corrections officials
investigated the error immediately afterwards and determined that the
probation officer – identified as Manager Billington – was negligent and
made an error while Moses waited in the lobby of his office. <Manager
Billington advised that he thought he did due diligence in making his
decision,> Joe Williams, an administrator in the department of
corrections, wrote in an email to Lisa Helton, a top department
official. <Manager Billington failed to adequately investigate the
status of this case. He failed to review all of the official documents
available through the Shelby county justice portal.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/25/pamela-moses-new-trial-voting-memphis-judge
The Guardian
25 Feb 2022
By Lauren Gambino in Washington
<<Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to become first Black
woman on supreme court.
Joe Biden on Friday nominated judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the
supreme court, seeking to elevate a Black woman to the nation’s highest
court for the first time in its 232-year history. Jackson, 51, was
nominated to succeed justice Stephen Breyer, 83, for whom she clerked.
Breyer, the most senior jurist in the court’s three-member liberal wing,
will retire at the end of the court’s current session this summer.
<Judge Jackson is an exceptionally qualified nominee as well as an
historic nominee, and the Senate should move forward with a fair and
timely hearing and confirmation,> the White House said in a statement.
Born in Washington and raised in Miami, Jackson clerked for three
federal jurists, including Justice Stephen Breyer himself. Jacksonsits
on the powerful US court of appeals for the DC circuit, after winning
bipartisan approval during her Senate confirmation last year, when Biden
elevated her from the federal district court in the District of
Columbia. Born in the nation’s capital and raised in Miami, Jackson
clerked for Breyer during the supreme court’s 1999-2000 term. She is a
graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Among her many legal
jobs, Jackson worked as a public defender, an experience that sets her
apart from many judges sitting on the federal bench. In its statement,
the White House added that Biden has sought a nominee <who is wise,
pragmatic, and has a deep understanding of the constitution as an
enduring charter of liberty>. It added: <The president sought an
individual who is committed to equal justice under the law and who
understands the profound impact that the supreme court’s decisions have
on the lives of the American people.> >>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/25/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-nomination-biden-pick
The Guardian
26 Feb 2022
Opinion
Ketanji Brown Jackson will be a superb addition to the US supreme
court.
By Moira Donegan
Read it here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/26/ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court
The Guardian
Global development is supported by
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
By Haroon Janjua - Islamabad
24 Feb 2022
<<Tycoon’s son sentenced to death in Pakistan in high-profile
rape and murder case. Zahir Jaffer tortured and beheaded Noor Mukadam,
in July last year, in case that sparked outrage over violence against
women. A court in Islamabad has sentenced to death the tycoon’s son who
raped and murdered Noor Mukadam, a case that sparked outrage in
Pakistan.
Mukadam, 27, the daughter of a former Pakistani diplomat, was
held captive, tortured and beheaded in July last year by Zahir Jaffer, a
member of a well-known industrialist family. Jaffer, 30, a
Pakistani-American citizen, is thought to have attacked Mukadam after
she refused his marriage proposal. Two household employees of Jaffer, a
guard and a gardener, were both sentenced to 10 years for abetting the
murder. The court heard they had blocked the young woman’s attempts to
leave the luxury mansion. Jaffer’s parents, who had faced charges in
connection with covering up the killing, were acquitted by the court.
After a lengthy trial that began in October, Judge Ata Rabbani on
Thursday sentenced Jaffer to be hanged.
Shaukat Ali Mukadam, Noor’s father, said the verdict was a
<victory for justice> and thanked the media for keeping the matter
alive.
<Today, an exemplary punishment has been given to the main
accused. Today, my daughter’s soul will be content to some extent. We
are happy as far as the principal accused is concerned,> he told
reporters outside the courtroom. Prosecution lawyer Shah Khawar said:
<Justice has been served, and today’s verdict will empower Pakistani
women at large. We will challenge the acquittal of his parents at the
higher court.>
The murder, and the efforts to protect the wealthy killer, had
caused outrage in Pakistan where, despite high rates of brutal violence
against women, there are low conviction rates, with most perpetrators
going uncharged.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/24/tycoons-son-sentenced-to-death-in-pakistan-in-and-case
The Guardian
23 Feb 2022
By Maya Yang
<<US supreme court
Biden interviews three Black women as potential supreme court
picks – reports. Joe Biden has interviewed at least three potential
supreme court nominees and is expected to reveal his decision by the end
of this month, according to multiple sources close to the president.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger and J Michelle Childs – all Black
women – were among the contenders who spoke with the president, those
familiar with the matter told CNN and the Washington Post. Jackson, who
has widely been considered the frontrunner, currently sits on the US
court of appeals for the DC circuit after replacing the attorney
general, Merrick Garland, in June 2021. Kruger is an associate justice
of the California supreme court and has served as the acting principal
deputy solicitor general under the Barack Obama administration. Childs
currently sits on the US district court for the district of South
Carolina and was previously nominated by Biden for a seat on the DC
circuit court of appeals.
The impending retirement of supreme court associate justice
Stephen Breyer has given Biden has the opportunity to fulfill one of his
campaign promises: to appoint a Black woman to the supreme court. On
Sunday evening Cedric L Richmond, director of the White House office of
public engagement, told members of the organization Win With Black Women
that <we’re close>.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/feb/23/supreme-court-nominations-latest-biden-interviews-black-female-judges
BBC NEWS
22 Feb 2022
The 'window' saving families from domestic violence
The police in Iceland have an innovative approach to domestic
violence. They target a 24-hour window after an attack is reported.
Reporter - Maddy Savage - Video Journalist - Benoît Derrier
Find out more on People Fixing the World.
Click here to download/watch the video:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04grdbc/episodes/downloads
BBC World Africa
21 Feb 2022
<<Somalia, sexism and me: Being a camerawoman in Mogadishu
What is it like to be a working woman in Somalia in 2022 - trying
to do a job in a culture where women traditionally take second place to
men in many aspects of life? For many women in the labour force, it is a
daily fight against prejudice. BBC Africa Eye asks, is it now time to
start thinking differently? Can things change? This is the story of
Maryama Omar, a camerawoman in the capital, Mogadishu.>>
Watch the video here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world
The Guardian
19 feb 2022
By Lorenzo Tondo
<<‘They torched our clubhouse’… but Sicilian rugby team won’t let
mafia win.
Gloria Mertoli’s shift is over when the first light of dawn
shines on the goalposts of a rugby pitch in the Librino district of
Catania, a stronghold of the Cosa Nostra, the feared Sicilian mafia.
Since mobsters torched the clubhouse and team bus, she and other players
on the women’s rugby team, Briganti Librino RUFC, have taken turns to
stay after evening practice and guard the area overnight.
Since the club started working to take children – easy targets
for mafia recruitment – off the streets of Librino, the clans have tried
to put it out of business. Librino is a complex neighbourhood,> Piero
Mancuso, one of the founders of the Briganti, told the Observer. <new it
wouldn’t be easy to work here. These criminal attacks risked destroying
everything we had achieved in recent years. But if I look at what we
have done so far, I can say that these attacks have made us stronger.>
The story of the small Briganti team from Catania has made news around
the world and received expressions of solidarity from England’s national
rugby coach, Eddie Jones, as well as from former England captain Bill
Beaumont. Even World Rugby has expressed its support for the team. Last
year, the amateur rugby team from Bolton, with a 150-year heritage,
forged a partnership with the Sicilian team. <For the people of Librino,
rugby offers an alternative to a potential life of crime on the
streets,> said the Bolton chairman, Mark Brocklehurst, in a note last
year. <If we can help Briganti by offering a glimmer of hope, then
amazing things can happen. What better motivator for Bolton to get
involved?>
The Briganti, which runs several junior and senior teams, as well
as women’s teams across multiple age groups, was established in Librino
in 2006, with the goal of doing more than simply playing rugby.>>
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/19/they-torched-our-clubhouse-but-sicilian-rugby-team-wont-let-mafia-win
Comment by Gino d'Artali: I was born in Sicily and know all to
well how dangerous the 'cosa nostra' can be.
The Guardian
19 feb 2022
<<Playing with fire: a Margaret Atwood guest edit
Abortion
The abortion travel agents: ‘Some women know what they need,
others just say: help’
Introduction Margaret Atwood Interviews Candice Pires>>
Note by Gino d'Artali: This is a must read article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/19/the-abortion-travel-agents-some-women-know-what-they-need-others-just-say-help-europe-margaret-atwood
Al Jazeera
By Hanna Davis
18 Feb 2022
<<‘Elephant in the room’: Jordanian women and equal rights
Recognition of ‘Jordanian women’ in the kingdom’s constitution
ignited a brawl in parliament and debate over their status under the
law.
Amman, Jordan – A political feud in parliament erupted into a
fistfight during a discussion to add <Jordanian women> to a
constitutional clause on equal rights. The new amendment, which passed
with 94 votes of 120 parliamentarians present last month, changed the
title of the constitution’s second chapter to <Rights and duties of
Jordanian men and Jordanian women>, adding the feminine pronoun for
Jordanians, <al-urduniat>. Some activists argue the amendment is
useless; only an escape route to avoid the real legal changes the
constitution needs to properly support women. <It’s running away from
the elephant in the room,> said Salma Nims, the Jordanian National
Commission for Women (JNCW) secretary-general, referring to continuously
neglected demands to add <sex> to Article 6 of the constitution, which
now only bans discrimination based on <race, language, and religion>.
Nims added the recent amendment is not legally binding, given the title
of a constitutional chapter <has no legal effect>. Minister of Political
and Parliamentary Affairs Musa Maaytah said in Jordan’s state media that
adding <Jordanian Women in came in <honour and respect to women>.
Nims questioned Maaytah’s reasoning, responding, <What? I am not
asking you to honour me by using a term. It is not about honouring
women, this is a constitution, you use it for legal purposes.>
Others fear the amendment will have long-term legal
repercussions, specifically impacting Jordan’s family affairs laws –
based on Islamic legal teachings and the nationality law – fearing the
expansion of eligibility for Jordanian citizenship. <The addition of
‘Jordanian women’ is dangerous in the long run for society, and for the
family,< said former lawmaker and member of the Islamic Action Front (IAF)
Hayat al-Musami. >>
Read more here:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/18/elephant-in-the-room-jordanian-womens-struggle-for-rights
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