honour killings
Two days after a couple was hacked to death in a suspected case of honour killing in Gadhaka village of Kalyanpur taluka in Devbhoomi Dwarka district, police arrested seven members of the woman’s family on Wednesday. Poori Chauhan (24) and her husband Govind Chauhan (38) were allegedly attacked with axes, scythes and wooden clubs by .. read more
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SARGODHA: The head of a family has been arrested on the charge of alleged murders of his wife and two daughters here, Geo News reported Wednesday. Police said that the accused killed the wife and daughter in the name of honour that led to his arrest. The incident occurred at Qasba Lalyani of Tehsil Kot .. read more
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LUCKNOW: In a case of honour killing, a young couple was allegedly tortured to death and their bodies dumped in a canal by the girl’s family on the outskirts of the city. Their bodies were fished out from the Sharda canal in the Chinhat area on Friday morning. The two were the residents of Satrikh .. read more
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The British Government now has a legal obligation to consider how the aid it gives a foreign country can help the rights of women and girls worldwide – including, for example, reducing forced marriage and FGM – under new rules going through Parliament on Thursday. International development secretary Justine Greening explains the significance Justine Greening, .. read more
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Unicef figures show one in five girls, some under 10, forced to marry by parents to protect against sexual violence Britain is to take the lead in tackling the rise in the number of Syrian refugee girls below the age of 16 forced into early marriage by destitute parents, many of whom believe it provides .. read more
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The Wa Municipal Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has organised a two-day forum to create awareness and strengthen civil society advocacy to reduce forced marriages in communities in the Municipality. Mr. Hamidu Haruna, the Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Social Welfare who gave an overview of early child .. read more
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In its Sunday edition, the Tampere paper Aamulehti interviews Nasima Razmyar, chair of the Multicultural Women’s Association Monika, an NGO aimed at supporting immigrant women in Finland. She believes that dozens of young women or men based in Finland are forced into marriage with someone of their parents’ choosing annually. Razmyar bases her estimate on her .. read more
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Public agencies and civil society organizations involved in the promotion of child rights in the Tamale Metropolis have began a workshop to synergize their activities to tackle the menace of Child, Early and Forced Marriages (CEFM) in the Northern Region. The two-day workshop organized by the Tamale Office of the National Commission for Civic Education .. read more
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A horrendous case of honour killing of a Madurai-based young man, who married a girl, braving opposition from her family, has come to light during the hearing on a habeas corpus writ petition in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. Recording the submission of the Thoothukudi police, Justices A Selvam and V S .. read more
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A man was gunned down in an apparent case of honour killing in Shakar Darra, Kohat on Thursday. Shoukat Saleem, an official of Shakar Darra police, said Umar Khan filed a case with the police stating that he was with his brother Ijaz Mehmood when the incident took place. He said they were on their .. read more
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