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Terming it “a rarest of the rare case”, a sessions court in Saharanpur district has sentenced a 28-year-old man to death in connection with a honour killing case. The Additional District Sessions judge Ram Kesh Singh found Bhura guilty of murdering his sister Mohbina (24) and her lover Ashvani (26) in Kolakheri Village in Saharanpur district .. read more
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ISLAMABAD: A judge re-examining allegations of a mass “honour killing” on Tuesday ordered the case reopened, a lawyer involved in the case said. Five women from the remote northern region of Kohistan were allegedly killed by their families in 2012 after they were filmed on a cellphone clapping and singing in a house with two .. read more
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* Five women allegedly killed for singing with boys * Investigators decided crime never happened * Judge orders women to attend court By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD, Feb 11 (Reuters) – A Pakistani judge re-examining allegations of a mass “honour killing” on Tuesday ordered the case reopened, a lawyer involved in the case said. Five women .. read more
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During the AHA Foundation’s Third Annual Conference on Honor Violence, Forced Marriage, and Female Genital Mutilation, held in December of 2013 in New York City, an impressive host of speakers engaged a large crowd of activists, teachers, doctors, academics, and lawyers. The keynote presentation was “Profile of A (Mass) Honor Killing: The Shafia Family Murders,” .. read more
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A teenage girl missing since she flew to Pakistan with her younger sisters may have been forced to marry, a High Court judge has heard. Alyssa Din, 16, and her sisters Safia, five, and Amani, four – all from Preston – have been missing since flying to Karachi via Islamabad in October. Their parents Ilyas .. read more
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Forced marriages of underage girls might be commonplace in certain communities in Sydney, according to the NSW Minister for Community Services, Pru Goward, who spoke yesterday following the arrest of a 26-year-old man charged with 25 counts of sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. The man, who for legal reasons cannot be named, allegedly met .. read more
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Rights groups say a proposed law in Afghanistan will allow perpetrators of domestic violence to escape prosecution, and are calling for international pressure to prevent President Hamid Karzai from signing it into law. Afghanistan’s parliament, a two-chamber house dominated by conservative Muslim leaders and former warlords, passed a “criminal procedure law” last year, which experts .. read more
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5 February 2014 – The United Nations Committee monitoring compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, briefed reporters in Geneva today, highlighting the achievements and challenges in regards to child protection in Congo, Yemen, Portugal, Russia, Germany and the Holy See. Expert members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, .. read more
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A Jordanian court has reduced the sentence of a man who killed his daughter because she left home without her husband’s knowledge from death to 10 years in jail, an official said Thursday. “On January 29, the court initially condemned the man to death but gave him a reduced jail sentence after the family dropped .. read more
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Bulandshahr: Despite the laws passed by the government, cases of honor killing are not ready to stop in the country. Every now and then, we hear 2-3 cases related to honor killing. As per reports, another incident has been reported from Bulandshahr where a Muslim boy was killed by the family members of a Muslim .. read more
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