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Linda Wootton: Double heart and lung transplant dies nine days after she has benefits stopped

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/linda-wootton-double-heart-lung-1912498 She was told her employment and support allowance was being stopped as she lay dying in a hospital bed A double heart and lung transplant patient died just NINE DAYS after the Government stopped her benefits and ordered her to go back to work. Linda Wootton, 49, was on 10 prescription drugs a day, […]

the man who saved the world – literally

Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в; born c. 1939) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, he was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported a missile being launched from the United States. Petrov judged that […]

International Human Rights Day Celebrated in Sierra Leone

Every year the celebration of International Human Rights day observed on 10th December provides the opportunity to raise global awareness on human rights issues. As a national human rights institution, the Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone (HRCSL) in collaboration with its local and international partners, joined hands to celebrates this day with the theme ‘Inclusion […]