Honour Killings

Articles

• Banaz: A Love Story
  28 November 2018, by siawi3

  Banaz Mahmod was murdered by her own family in an ‘honour’ killing. Deeyah Khan’s debut documentary film tells Banaz’s story for the first time – as well as the story of the extraordinary police team who refused to give up, and who finally brought her killers to justice. And it is the story of the filmmaker Deeyah, herself a victim of harassment within a tight-knit Muslim community. It was Deeyah’s love for the story, for Banaz, for Bekhal and for Caroline, and her drive to raise awareness around the issue of honour killing, that drove her to spend four years making this harrowing and emotionally resonant film.

• Pakistan authorities record a dozen cases of ’honour’ killing in a fortnight
  28 May, by siawi3

  In Pakistan, the state system runs in parallel with a more regressive societal system that reinforces patriarchy and disempowers women.

• Pakistan: The cleric behind Qandeel Baloch’s ’honour’ murder
  14 November 2017, by siawi3

  Qandeel had been murdered last year, allegedly by her brother Mohammad Waseem, who said he killed her in the name of ’honour’. He added:
  “There are other issues as well... like the maulvi [cleric] issue”. On Oct 30, Muhammad Azeem’s ─ the slain celebrity’s father ─ had told the court that his daughter had been killed on Qavi’s behest.

• Pakistan: Where is the law?
  9 September 2016, by siawi3

  I’m tired of hearing about women’s empowerment in Pakistan when the government is breaking all its promises made to Pakistani women on the topic of safety and security from gender-based violence. While debates rage about the Panama Papers, the situation in Karachi, CPEC, and the state of affairs in IHK, the issue of ‘honour’ killings has been swept under the rug. All the feel-good news about women entrepreneurs and girls’ education drives pales in comparison to the image of women’s bodies in funeral shrouds that appear on our newspaper pages with depressing regularity.

• Pakistan: Couple in Karachi killed allegedly on jirga’s orders for contracting freewill marriage
  28 November 2017, by siawi3

  The couple married without permission from their elders about a month and a half ago. Chief Minister expressed anger over the couple’s murder. “This is Karachi, not a tribal area. How was a jirga held here?” Jirgas thrive in Karachi in clear defiance of state’s writ. Eight suspects arrested.

• Canada: religious leaders support civil law against honour killings
  7 February 2012, by siawi3

  Controversy surrounding the Shafia murder trial prompted imams from across Canada and the United States to issue a moral ruling Saturday officially condemning honour killings, domestic violence and misogyny as “un-Islamic.â€

• Caught in the clash of civilizations
  20 January 2008
  BERLIN:
  Death came for Hatun Surucu at a cold bus stop here three years ago. The 23-year-old was the sixth Muslim woman murdered by a relative in Berlin in as many months for being “too Western.”
  Hatun had divorced a cousin she had been forced  (...)
• The deadly face of Muslim extremism
  18 December 2007
  (Published in: National Post, December 12, 2007)
  The tragic death of a Mississauga, Ont., teenage girl — allegedly at the hands of her own traditionally minded Muslim father — has sent shock waves across the world. Canadians are justified in  (...)
• PAKISTAN: Lawyer and rights activist threatened for pursuing the honor killing of two women
  12 June 2014, by siawi3

  Ms. Munaza Bukhari, advocate and prominent human rights defender of Pakpattan, Punjab province, is under threat of death by the alleged killers of the two women who were killed on the pretext of honour on the accusation of having illicit relationships out of wedlock. The government, courts and police have been informed but are waiting for the attempts to kill her. This is similar to the case of Mr. Rashid Rehman, a human rights defender fighting the case of a professor who was accused of Blasphemy.

• INDE. Crimes d’honneur : les khap panchayats défient la Constitution indienne
  1 May 2010, by siawi2
  Françoise Lanby
  15 avril 2010
  Source : L’Inde Aujourd’hui
  http://www.aujourdhuilinde.com/actualites-inde-crimes-d-honneur-les-khap-panchayats-defient-la-constitution-indienne-5172.asp?1=1
  Deux semaines après la condamnation àmort de cinq  (...)

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