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UN children’s expert praises Canada’s focus on fighting forced marriage of girls
OTTAWA – A top United Nations official is praising the Harper government’s foreign policy initiative to end forced marriage of young girls, even if Canada won’t fund projects that would allow victims access to an abortion. The Conservative government’s practice of not allowing aid dollars to go towards organizations that offer abortions to victimized girls .. read more
Jan
Karo-kari murders: Four people shot dead in honour killings
SUKKUR: Four people were killed in two separate incidents of Karo-Kari within the RD-109 police limits near Buxapur in Kashmore district on Saturday. The first incident took place in the village of Yar Mohammad Jakhrani, where a man and woman were gunned down on suspicion of illicit relations. Miran Jakhrani suspected that his daughter was .. read more
Jan
PHC Rejects Bail Plea of Lawyer in Honour Killing Case
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday dismissed the bail petition of a lawyer charged with honour killing and directed the trial court to decide the case within six months. A single bench of PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan dismissed the bail petition of the accused Yousaf Shah hailing from Mardan district. He .. read more
Jan
“Honor killing” brings death sentence to two Jordanians
Two Jordanians were sentenced to death in an Amman criminal court for the death of their sister earlier this year. Defense of their intention “to cleanse the family’s honor,” failed in court, official stated. “The two men, aged 23 and 20, took their divorced sister, also in her twenties, to the garden of their house .. read more
Jan
Girl’s father ‘kills’ youth for honour in Karnal village
KARNAL: In yet another suspected case of honour killing in Haryana, a 21-year-old boy was allegedly killed in a village of Karnal district by father of the girl he loved. Ravinder, a resident of Kutail village near Gharounda town, was allegedly killed since they were from different caste. Sources said that Ravinder loved a 20-year-old .. read more
Jan
Honour killings, girls with guns and female mps: is iraq still a man’s world?
In some parts of Iraq there are whole military forces made up of females. In others, a young girl is killed by her uncle because she is suspected of having pre-marital sex. Niqash spoke to three prominent Iraqi women about women’s rights in Iraq today. The Iraqi Constitution says men and women are equal in .. read more
Jan
Man murdered in Haryana, 2 held for ‘honour killing’
A 40-yaar-old man was brutally murdered by three persons of his village in a case of suspected honour killing in Bhiwani district of Haryana. Two of the three accused — Praveen and his cousin Suprasidh — were arrested on Sunday. The third, Praveen’s father Jagat Singh, is missing. During preliminary interrogation, the accused reportedly confessed .. read more
Jan
Eight of family booked in suspected case of honour killing
Muzaffarnagar: In a suspected case of honour killing, a probe has been ordered against eight members of a family of a girl who was allegedly killed after she refused to remarry, police said Friday. The incident occurred in October when one Sangita was found hanging at her parents’ house, they said, adding that the complaint .. read more
Jan
Chargesheet in Rohtak honour killings names girl’s parents, brother
The Haryana police submitted a chargesheet against six people on Wednesday in the three-month-old “honour killing” case in Gharnavati village of Rohtak district in which a runaway couple, Nidhi and Dharmender, were allegedly killed by girl’s parents. In the chargesheet submitted in the court of Judicial Magistrate, Rohtak district courts, all six accused have been .. read more
Jan
Anatomy of an ‘honour’ killing: Why a Palestinian community demanded a father murder his divorced daughter
Thamar Zeidan was murdered by her father when he choked her to death as she took an afternoon nap in their small, conservative West Bank village. “Honour crimes” are rarely talked about in Palestinian society, but Ms. Zeidan’s mother and sister have gone public to highlight the case and reveal the immense pressure her father .. read more
Jan
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