International: International Campaign Against Honour Killings
Posted by Ginger on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 (12:56:46) (770 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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USA: Jonesboro man killed daughter who wanted out of arranged marriage
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Sunday, July 06, 2008 (19:44:41) (189 reads)

JONESBORO, Ga. -- A 25-year-old Jonesboro woman is dead after police said she told her father she wanted out of an arranged marriage.

Police said they found Sandela Kanwal’s body inside a home on Utah Drive in Jonesboro. They said Kanwal had been killed by her own father, Chaudry Rashad.

“Apparently, she had been married and has had no contact with her husband who lives in Chicago for the last three months,” said Tim Owens of the Clayton County Police Department.

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Sweden: Male victims of 'honour' crime are being ignored
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Friday, July 04, 2008 (13:07:17) (76 reads)

Men should not be overlooked when it comes to investigating honour related crimes. That’s according to a debate article written in Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter, today.

The government investigation found feminist views that see women as the main victims of honour related violence, have lead to male victims being forgotten about and male suspects being judged in advance. Many male victims are members of the homosexual, bi-sexual and transgender, or HBT, community.

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Jordan: Jordanian boy murders sister for 'honour'
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Friday, July 04, 2008 (08:02:50) (86 reads)

AMMAN: A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murdering his 23-year-old sister in an apparent "honour killing", a judicial official said.

The unnamed suspect reportedly stabbed his sister 10 times in the heart on Wednesday in a village in the north-eastern governorate of Mafraq, said the official.

"He has confessed to murdering his sister because she disappeared from home for a month with a boyfriend," the official said. It was the seventh reported so-called "honour" killing this year, according to security officials.

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Germany: Culture is not an excuse
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Friday, July 04, 2008 (08:01:16) (92 reads)

Morsal Obeidi was born amid civil war in Afghanistan but it was in Hamburg, a peaceful German city, that she was murdered. The killer was her own brother, Ahmad, 23. He stabbed her 20 times to "protect the family's honour". He felt no regret.

The incident happened in May but Hamburg's Afghan community is still in shock. Hamburg has the largest population of Afghans in Europe, but so far they have lived inconspicuously. Afghans are among Germany's better-integrated ethnic minorities. Some 40% are German citizens and the community values education. So what went wrong? Why did Ahmad feel compelled to kill his sister when in Afghanistan men like Perwez Kambakhsh risk death by challenging traditional perceptions of Afghan women?

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Pakistan: Woman shot dead in Pakistan 'honor killing'
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:57:45) (86 reads)

LAHORE -- A man in a small Pakistani town killed his Danish sister-in-law because he suspected her of having a "bad character", police Tuesday said.

Faisal Bashir shot dead 31-year-old Tahira Bibi, who was of Pakistani origin, local police official Mohammad Shahbaz Cheema told Agence France-Presse.

"It's a case of honor killing as Faisal suspected his brother's wife had bad character," Cheema said.

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UAE: Social rights are just as important for women as political rights
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:55:08) (72 reads)

‘Murder in the name of honour”: that was the headline under which the Jordan Times ran the first investigative report on honour killing in Jordan in the mid 1990s. Until then, honour killing was a taboo subject rarely addressed by the media. But the newspaper challenged the taboo and exposed the injustice to which women have been subjected.

The report provoked severe criticism from conservative forces in society. But the newspaper’s extensive coverage of the subject triggered a campaign to fight the killings. The royal family threw its weight behind efforts to fight the practice. The religious establishment issued fatwas prohibiting the killing of women by male members of their families for allegedly violating the honour system. But a conservative parliament was not convinced. It aborted a government initiative to amend laws that were lenient to the perpetrators of these crimes.

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Britain: Nazir Azfal recognised by British newspaper
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Friday, July 04, 2008 (07:48:15) (61 reads)

CPS lawyer Nazir Afzal today topped a Daily Mirror readers' poll, to win the People's Award, for his work in highlighting the issue of so-called honour crimes, where Asian women have been killed by members of their own families if they are judged to have brought shame by not marrying the man chosen for them.

Nazir was one of five finalists the Daily Mirror described as showing 'the courage and determination of the people who try to make a difference'. Readers have been asked to submit votes for the past week and all MGN net profits from the poll will be donated to Women's Aid, a charity working to end domestic violence.

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Kurdistan: A father who burnt his 3 daughters has been arrested
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 (20:27:01) (57 reads)

On 21st of June 2008 in Dibis Province a father scalded his 3 daughters’ faces with boiling water while they were asleep. When he found out that they were still alive, he shot them. Two of them died and the third one is seriously injured.

Detective Farhad told Awena that on the 29th they were arrest the man and they have started an investigation.

Translated from Awena

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Yemen: Tiny voices defy child marriage in Yemen
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 (13:01:25) (134 reads)

JIBLA, Yemen — One morning last month, Arwa Abdu Muhammad Ali walked out of her husband’s house here and ran to a local hospital, where she complained that he had been beating and sexually abusing her for eight months.

That alone would be surprising in Yemen, a deeply conservative Arab society where family disputes tend to be solved privately. What made it even more unusual was that Arwa was 9 years old.

Within days, Arwa — a tiny, delicate-featured girl — had become a celebrity in Yemen, where child marriage is common but has rarely been exposed in public. She was the second child bride to come forward in less than a month; in April, a 10-year-old named Nujood Ali had gone by herself to a courthouse to demand a divorce, generating a landmark legal case.

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