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GURGAON: The Supreme Court has directed the Gurgaon police commissioner to file an additional affidavit on the delay in registration of FIR lodged by a man, resulting in the murder of his wife in a suspected honour killing case. Police on November 9, 2013 had arrested the father and maternal uncle for killing the woman .. read more
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The Khap Panchayats of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana will meet on Wednesday and interact with research scholars to discuss honour killings. The meeting will take place at the historical Meham Chabutara. Meham Chaubishi, an umbrella organization of all khaps in the state will put forward its viewpoint on killing for honour. It may be .. read more
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MORE than a dozen inspirational people were honoured in Islington this week. All made a contribution to helping the victims and survivors of ‘honour’-based violence in the UK. The Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation – a national charity based in the south of the borough – invited 13 people to its headquarters for the .. read more
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Honour killing is the murder of a person accused of bringing shame upon his or her family. Out of the 5000 honour killings that occur internationally each year, about 1000 happen in India, and 1000 take place in Pakistan, according to international digital resource centre Honour Based Violence Awareness (HBVA). However, where the central criminal .. read more
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AGENCIES from across South Wales gathered in Newport yesterday to discuss the changes in the law surrounding the criminalisation of forced marriage and how best to support victims. Under current law, forced marriage in England and Wales is not a specific criminal offence. But the Government has introduced clauses in the Anti-social Behaviour Crime and .. read more
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A 14-year-old girl Pili Mamyiai Kalea who escaped being married off while in standard six at Macknnon in Kinango wants well-wishers to help her. Kalea is said to have ran away from her home and hid at Nyango area three years ago after learning that her parents were planning to marry her off. She was .. read more
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In September 2013, Sarah Fournier, then a journalism master’s student at New York University, was looking for a subject to explore for her investigative journalism class. Interested in women’s issues, she thought of one of her previous interviews: an American woman of Indian descent who was forced to marry against her will. Angered that his daughter .. read more
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The murder of realtor and petrol pump owner, Bharatsinh Vala in cold blood on Tuesday night could be murkier than it appears. Vala was shot dead at his office in Botad town of Bhavnagar district. Sources suggest that this could well be a case of honour killing. Officials said that based on the CCTV footage, .. read more
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Cape Town – Abducted and forced into marriage before being raped several times – this is what happened to a 14-year-old girl at the hands of a Philippi man. On Monday morning – more than two years after the girl’s ordeal – Mvuleni Jezile, who was convicted for sexually assaulting the Eastern Cape teenager, is .. read more
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Vidya Sri was a typical American teenager in the Queens borough of New York. She went to school, hung out with her friends and took dance classes. But all that changed when she was 18 and started dating her first real boyfriend, a sweet Irish Catholic boy. That was in 1987. Alarmed that Sri was .. read more
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