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Action International: International Campaign Against Honour Killings
Posted by Ginger on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 (12:56:46) (1066 reads)

Over 5000 women and girls are killed every year by family members in so-called 'honour killings', according to the UN. These crimes occur where cultures believe that a woman's unsanctioned sexual behaviour brings such shame on the family that any female accused or suspected must be murdered. Reasons for these murders can be as trivial as talking to a man, or as innocent as suffering rape.


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Opinions Britain: Forced marriages will be a defining issue of 2009
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Sunday, January 04, 2009 (13:03:59) (35 reads)

One of the most touching aspects of the story of Humayra Abedin – the 33-year-old doctor with a Hindu boyfriend who was tricked into travelling home to Bangladesh, then imprisoned, drugged and forced to marry a Muslim man she hardly knew – was the statement she gave outside the High Court in London just before Christmas.

“I am deeply upset by what has occurred, but I do not wish my parents to suffer any punishment for what has happened,” said Abedin, who had just obtained an injunction to stop her parents removing her again. “I am their only child and they are still my parents.”


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Reports Britain: Crackdown on forced marriages in Lancashire
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Sunday, January 04, 2009 (12:40:36) (31 reads)

A pilot project to tackle "honour violence" and forced marriage saw three cases in Lancashire reach court in nine months, a report has revealed.
Prosecutors say they will be better able to tackle cases of so-called "honour" crime following the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) study, which ran across Lancashire, London, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands from July 2007 to March 2008.

The scheme tasked specially trained prosecutors with identifying and monitoring forced marriages and so-called "honour" crime cases for the first time.


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Crimes Pakistan: Woman, daughter axed to death on suspicion by son
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Sunday, January 04, 2009 (12:16:35) (37 reads)

By: Mr. Imran Mazher (Rays of Development Organization)

HAFIZABAD, PAKISTAN: On Thursday, a woman and her 14-year-old daughter were murdered on the suspicion of illicit relation at Ghania village.

According to the details, Shahnaz Bibi and her daughter Saba had allegedly developed illicit relations with a man of the same village. The murderer Sajjid had repeatedly asked them to mend their ways but to no avail.

On the day of unpleasant incident, Sajjid allegedly axed to death Shahnaz Bibi and her daughter Saba. Arshad the husband of Shahnaz Bibi was settled Greece for business.

Police of Kasoki have arrested the accused after registering a case.

Source:
Ferhan Mazher,
Chairman (Rays of Development Organization, Sargodha, Pakistan)


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Action Britain: Help for victims of 'honour violence' in South Tyneside
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Thursday, January 01, 2009 (16:47:34) (79 reads)

SOUTH Tyneside has its first worker to help victims of forced marriage and so called 'honour' violence.
Anju Khanna specialises in supporting women from the black and minority ethnic (BME) community suffering abuse in the home.

The role has been created by Options – an organisation offering help and advice to women suffering from domestic abuse, and Mrs Khanna is the first dedicated BME worker in the borough.


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Reports Pakistan: 2008 saw 179 honour killings
Posted by Kawthar on Thursday, January 01, 2009 (13:18:52) (79 reads)

As many as 179 persons were killed in 141 incidents of honour killing throughout the country in year 2008.

According to a study by ‘The News’ based on the newspaper reports published from January to December 2008 a total of 138 women and 41 men were killed in the name of honour.

The year 2008 also saw two cruel incidents of violence that included the burial of five women alive in Nasirabad district of Balochistan and throwing of Tasleem Solangi, an eight-month pregnant, in front of the hungry dogs in Khairpur district of Sindh.

Most of such incidents took place in interior Sindh, especially Sukkar, Khairpur and Mirpurkhas. It is, however, astonishing to note that a great number of honour killing incidents also took place in the urban areas of Punjab like Lahore, Sialkot, Gujranwala and one such incident in Rawalpindi.


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Reports Iran: Stoning of a woman is upheld
Posted by Kawthar on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 (22:20:22) (85 reads)

Translated by: Rochelle Terman, SKSW Campaign from the original Persian, Rooz Online.

The 27th Iranian Court District approved of the stoning of a Afsaneh, woman from Shiraz, Iran.

The original stoning order of this woman came from the 5th Court District in Shiraz in Fars Province. It was then appealed to a higher court in the country, who approved the decision under case file 588.

Branch 5 of this court approved the decision on 21 Farvadin 1387 (Iranian calendar) and ordered the sentence of killing by stoning of Afsaneh. In this order, considering to the laws relevant to this file and the statements of the accused, the court came to the conclusion that the defendant purposefully and consciously chose to commit murder. Her partner and accomplice to the murder, a man named Reza, was sentenced to 15 years in jail with 100 lashes.


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Crimes Saudi Arabia: Doctor stops wedding with five year-old
Posted by Kawthar on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 (22:19:03) (76 reads)

A doctor in Saudi Arabia was able to stop the wedding of a five and 11 year-old whose family wanted to marry them to protect financial assets. "Thanks to the law that compels spouses to carry out blood analyses before marriage, we were able to stop a wedding with underage girls, among them a five year-old," said Hani Harsani, the doctor in charge of laboratory analysis in an interview with Saudi daily al-Watan.

"Two sisters came to us accompanied by their parents to undergo pre-marital blood analyses. The first one was five, and the other 11 years-old. When we asked the mother why they wanted to do the tests, she told us that she wanted to marry the girls to cousins to preserve the family's property rights."

During the interview, Harsani remembers an episode when a 10-year-old orphan was brought to do pre-marital blood tests by her brother, who wanted to marry the sister to a 40-year-old friend who already had two other wives.


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Reports Pakistan: Senate body slams slow progress in honour killing probe
Posted by Kawthar on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 (21:53:12) (55 reads)

By Muhammad Bilal

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights criticised the authorities on Monday for not arresting those involved in burying alive women in Balochistan, five months after the so-called honour killings.

The committee – which met here under Senator Latif Khosa – has now directed police and other departments to submit a detailed investigation report on the incident by January 15. Dissatisfied with the progress made so far in the investigation, the committee said “influential people responsible for committing the crime are still at large”. Members have urged police to bring the perpetrators to justice.


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Reports Pakistan: Violence against women in Balochistan increased in 2008
Posted by Kawthar on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 (21:50:49) (40 reads)

By Malik Siraj Akbar

QUETTA: Aurat Foundation, a non-governmental organisation working for women’s rights, has said violence against women in Balochistan intensified in 2008, but Baloch society still adopts a defensive attitude and justifies the killing of women in the name of honour and tradition.

In a dialogue with media representatives on ‘Problems in accessibility of information about violence against women’ on Monday, the organisation said Baloch women were victims of violence due to widespread illiteracy, entrenched tribal traditions, distorted interpretation of Islam and economic dependence of women on men.


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