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      I understand why people are wary about assisted dying, but it gave my mother a dignified end | Renate van der Zee

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 1 April, 2024

    The Dutch legalisation spared her further misery. We don’t take euthanasia lightly; we’re just grateful to have the option

    My mother, Jannèt, was 90 years old when she ended her life by means of euthanasia. For years she had been suffering from numerous serious and painful conditions that, although not fatal, did make her life miserable. She always worried about her health and was terrified of what the future undeniably held in store for her: more pain, more dependence on others, more suffering, more desperation.

    On 20 June 2022 at 2pm she was visited by a doctor and a nurse. They had a last conversation with her, during which the doctor asked her if euthanasia was still what she wanted. My mother said yes. She had already decided that she would take the drink herself instead of being injected. She didn’t want to mentally burden the doctor more than necessary.

    Renate van der Zee is a Dutch writer and journalist

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      Collection of unreleased Marvin Gaye songs found in Belgium

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March, 2024

    Questions surround ownership of demo tapes reportedly left by soul artist as a thank-you to his Ostend hosts

    A collection of cassette tapes containing a host of unreleased Marvin Gaye songs has been found in the Belgian city of Ostend.

    The collection, thought to contain 66 demo songs, belonged to the musician Charles Dumolin, in whose home Gaye stayed in 1981 as he underwent detox to fight cocaine addiction. When Dumolin died in 2019, the recordings were handed down to his family, along with a cache of Gaye memorabilia.

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      Scotland’s new hate crime act: what does it cover and why is it controversial?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 31 March, 2024

    The government insists the law, set to come into force on 1 April, is needed to protect victims but critics say it limits freedom of expression

    A new law to tackle hate crime in Scotland will be implemented on 1 April, but the past few weeks have seen escalating concerns about how it will be policed and how it might impact freedom of speech. Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, has hit back at the “disinformation and inaccuracy” being spread about its implementation.

    What are the aims of the new hate crime act?

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      ‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 March, 2024

    Exclusive: Satellite analysis revealed to the Guardian shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside mounting air and water pollution, experts says Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable

    In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have no running water, no fuel and are surrounded by running sewage and waste piling up.

    Like the rest of Gaza’s residents, they fear the air they breathe is heavy with pollutants and that the water carries disease. Beyond the city streets lie razed orchards and olive groves, and farmland destroyed by bombs and bulldozers.

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      Andrew Bridgen must pay Matt Hancock legal fees of £40,000 in libel claim

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 28 March, 2024

    High court strikes out part but not all of Bridgen’s case and orders him to pay Tory MP’s costs

    The MP Andrew Bridgen has been ordered to pay Matt Hancock more than £40,000 in legal fees after an early stage of their libel battle.

    The MP for North West Leicestershire is bringing a libel claim against the former health secretary regarding a January 2023 message on X that followed Bridgen posting a comment about Covid-19 vaccines.

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      Garrick Club asked to consider membership for seven leading women

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 28 March, 2024

    A group of men at the club who hope the male-only rule will change have nominated a set of possible new members

    Seven women with leading positions in the British establishment have been nominated as prospective female members of the Garrick in the event that the club agrees to change its rules so that women are able to join.

    The classicist Mary Beard, the former home secretary Amber Rudd, Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman and the new Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika are among the first names to have been put forward to the club as possible future members.

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      Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 28 March, 2024

    Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists

    The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international community’s silence, human rights groups have said.

    Safia Arefi, a lawyer and head of the Afghan human rights organisation Women’s Window of Hope, said the announcement had condemned Afghan women to return to the darkest days of Taliban rule in the 1990s.

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      Assisted dying: what are the laws in UK and what changes are proposed?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 28 March, 2024

    Scotland could become first part of UK to offer terminally ill adults assistance to end their lives if Holyrood approves bill

    A new bill to legalise assisted dying in Scotland has been published at Holyrood by the Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur, in a fresh attempt by supporters to get the measure enacted for the first time in the UK.

    What are the current laws on assisted dying?

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      Clubs such as Garrick can create bias in selecting judges, Bar Council warns

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 28 March, 2024

    Membership of exclusive clubs can be ‘unfair advantage’ for some lawyers seeking to move into judiciary, says barristers’ body

    Exclusive members’ clubs “create the potential for unfair advantage” for lawyers seeking to become judges, the Bar Council has warned, responding to growing unease about senior legal practitioners who are members of the men-only Garrick club.

    The professional body for barristers set its comments about “closed doors and exclusionary spaces” against the background of wider concerns over the under-representation of women in the judiciary, and persistent gender disparities in female lawyers’ career progression and earnings.

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