honour killings

Australia: Forced Underage Marriage Is Common

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

Karzai urged to veto bill ‘silencing women’

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

Sexual abuse, early marriage, forced recruitment among concerns highlighted by UN child rights body

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

Jordanian gets reduced sentence for ‘honor killing’

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

Bulandshahr: Honor killing takes life of Muslim boy

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

Robert Fisk: The number of women sentenced to death across the Middle East has very little to do with justice

The execution of women holds a special revulsion for Westerners, especially – let us be honest about this – when the women are decapitated, hanged or shot in the Muslim world. Our revulsion at the act of killing a woman is thus neatly dovetailed into our foundational conviction that Islam treats women not only as .. read more

‘Honour’ crime: “We need to see this as abuse, call it out for what it is”

A charity campaigning for women’s rights is calling for all police forces across the UK to review their handling of honour-based violent crime. A report by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation claims one in five police forces are failing to report the crimes adequately, which puts more women at risk. These crimes include .. read more

New campaign targets honour violence

In an online survey of 130 London Muslims — most of them women under 25 — nearly 90% said it’s time to address the issue, which can range from parental pressure and shaming to abuse. About 35 service providers also completed the survey, which was conducted by the Muslim Family Resource Centre for Support and .. read more

London campaign targets ‘honour’ violence that can range from shaming to assault to killings

For such a complex issue, the plan is simple: Reclaim honour. It’s what a group of young Muslim women in London — the demographic typically victimized by “honour” violence, which can range from verbal shaming to killings — have set out to do. On Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, in school gyms, mosques and community centres, they .. read more

Separate law needed to fight honour killings, panel says

NEW DELHI: A high-level committee on status of women sought a separate law to punish those involved in honour killings. It also urged that the next round of data collection by the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) should also have figures on violence against women. The 14-member committee, which submitted its preliminary report to women .. read more