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This has been an unusually positive couple of weeks for universal credit. Despite a tsunami of new claims 鈥?1.4m and counting 鈥?and the loss of a fifth of staff due to self-isolation, the much-maligned benefit has held up under the challenge of coronavirus. The system hasnt crashed, and, thanks to the rapid redeployment of tens of thousands of officials from their usual r stanley cups oles to full-time clai stanley cup nz ms processing, the pandemic cohort of new claimants is expected to receive their first benefit payments, on time, this week.The director general of universal credit, Neil Couling, has been in confident mood, going as far as to call a Zoom-enabled press briefing last week to praise his hardworking st termo stanley aff and lay bets that, despite the unprecedented economic chaos of the past few weeks, universal credit would be more timely and efficient than ever. The system has run beautifully throughout the crisis, he claimed, not a phrase too often associated with the often hapless benefit.A welfare system that is still largely fighting the ideological battles of five years ago is no longer fit for purposePart of the reason the UKs social security system has managed to deliver its immediate overriding priority 鈥?to get emergency cash as swiftly as it can to millions left jobless overnight 鈥?is because, by and large, it has stopped doing almost everything else. The vast architecture of conditionality, from job search interviews to sanctions to fit-for-work tests has been put aside for at least three Lcyi At last, the chance to legalise assisted dying in the UK 鈥?and end the untold, unnecessary anguish
Pakistan plans to execute a disabled man this week, as Amnesty International sai stanley thermosflasche d the country was nearing 300 hangings in less than a year.The execution of Abdul Basit, a paraplegic man who was convicted of murder in 2009, has been postponed several times after rights groups raised concerns about how a man in a wheelchair would mount the scaffold.Amnesty said the hanging had been scheduled for Wednesday and accused the country of shamefully sealing its place among the worlds worst executioners .Pakistans human rights commission said it had stanley cup written to the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, seeking to delay the execution, and that prison authorities were awaiting an answer from the government on how to proceed with the hanging.Some local activists estimated there had been fewer than 260 executions in the country this year. No official figures are available.Paraplegic death row prisoner gets last-minute stay of execution in PakistanRead more Pakistans ongoing zeal for executions is an affront to human rights and the global trend against the death penalty. Even if the authorities stay the execution of Abdul Basit, a man with paraplegia, Pakistan is still executing people at a rate of almost one a day, Amnesty said.There was no evidence that the relentless executions had done anything to counter extremism in the country, it added.The rights group also alleged that many of the executions had come after court proceedings that do not meet stanley cup international fair trial standards .Pakistan |
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