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Kohistan ‘honour’ killing: Pakistani woman Rukhsana Bibi relives horror
On a hot and humid night in late August, a small group quietly scales the wall of a mud-brick house in a village near Pakistan’s north-western town of Akora Khatak. In the dim, starlit courtyard, they make out the figures of a man and a woman lying in two separate charpoy cots, sleeping. About 15 .. read more
Jan
Morocco MPs Ask to End Rapist Marriage Law After Teen Suicide
A Moroccan parliamentary panel voted to repeal a penal code allowing rapists to dodge lawsuits if they marry their victims. The justice and legislation committee voted to scrap a clause in the penal code that stipulates there can be no grounds for lawsuits against those “who abducted or seduced a minor girl who has reached .. read more
Jan
Lack of clarity on ‘early marriage’ cause for India not sponsoring UN child marriage resolution: MEA
India stopped short of co-sponsoring a first-of-its-kind United Nations resolution on eliminating “early marriage” due to a lack of greater legal clarity, the External Affairs Ministry said in a reply to an RTI application. The Resolution on ‘Strengthening efforts to prevent and eliminate child, early and forced marriage: Challenges, achievements, best practices and implementation gaps’, .. read more
Jan
Pupils missing after school holidays shows big increase in district
The number of children who go missing during school holidays is on the rise, the Telegraph & Argus can reveal. New data shows 96 children failed to return to school as expected after the long summer break last year, the highest number in three years and a 55 per cent rise on the previous year’s .. read more
Jan
Break the Silence on Honor Killing
“I am sharing this reluctantly: last night’s shooting gun sounds were so close that it turned out a family from our neighborhood killed their daughter after an unsuccessful forced marriage. My only plea is that they could never see the light of day again.” The update of one of my Kurdish friends on Facebook called .. read more
Jan
MNC employee murdered in suspected case of honour killing
In a suspected case of honour killing, a 23-year-old engineer of a private company was allegedly murdered by the family of the girl he was engaged in Kutail village of the district. The body of Ravinder was found from a canal here almost 19 days after he went missing under mysterious circumstances. Police said here .. read more
Jan
Homicide: Six killed over ‘honour’ in separate incidents
GILGIT: At least six people lost their lives in two separate cases of ‘honour’ killing. Four people, including two women, were gunned down in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) late Sunday night, while two pedestrians caught in the line of fire were also injured. Senior police official Jehangir Khan on Monday said armed men barged into a house and .. read more
Jan
Brothers murder sister, her hubby in honour killing
PAKPATTAN: Brothers gunned down their own sister and her husband over their marriage by choice and voluntarily surrendered themselves in the police station, Geo News reported on Sunday. Police said that one Sana and Amjad of Chak number 107 had married by choice, but the Punchaiyet had sent Sana back to her parent’s house, in .. read more
Jan
Honour killing: Man, two sons gunned down in Charsadda
CHARASADDA: A man and his two sons were gunned down in what appeared to be a case of honour killing in Majoki, on the outskirts of Charsadda, on Thursday. Prang police official Amir Nawaz said the deceased were working in their bakery when they were shot. Fawad Ali registered a case with the police that his .. read more
Jan
Empower ZPs to Curb Child Marriages: NGO
The Karnataka Child Rights Observatory has come up with a set of recommendations to completely eliminate child marriage from the country. This follows months after India refused to sign a global resolution, led by the United Nations, against early and forced child marriage. As per the recommendations, Zilla panchayats in Karnataka should be given the .. read more
Jan
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