With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Repeal the 8th: a landmark step forward for Irish women
Yes campaigners celebrate in Dublin Castle as Ireland has voted to repeal the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution which prohibits abortions unless a mother's life is in danger.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
ON Friday May 25, the Republic of Ireland voted in a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, introduced in 1983, which prohibits and criminalises abortion by claiming to recognise an equal right to life between a pregnant woman and a foetus.
The vote, with 64 per cent in favour, followed a huge campaign by feminist groups and the labour movement to improve women’s rights by allowing abortions.
While the Irish parliament still has to bring in a law on the matter, the referendum’s success means that women in Ireland may be able to access legal abortions there as opposed to being turned into criminals.
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Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss under suspicion of having broken the outdated 1967 Abortion Act have sparked uproar, writes PEOPLES’ HEALTH DISPATCH
