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In 2014, the research corporation Westat released a study on honor killings and violence entitled "Honor Violence Measurement Methods". The study was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice, and it identified four types of honor violence: honor killings, honor-based domestic violence, forced marriage, and female genital mutilation. The ...
Reliable figures of honor killings are hard to obtain, in large part because "honor" is either improperly defined or is defined in ways other than in Article 12 of the UDHR (block-quoted above) without a clear follow-up explanation. As a result, criteria are hardly ever given for objectively determining whether a given case is an instance of ...
Being the victim of an honor killing in St. Louis Palestina Zein "Tina" Isa ( Arabic : فلسطين زين عيسى , December 3, 1972 – November 6, 1989) was a Brazilian-American teenage girl murdered in an honor killing in St. Louis, Missouri , by her parents, Zein and Maria Isa. [ 1 ]
A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced four men to 25 years for the "honor killing" of a woman stabbed to death in broad daylight in front of her three-year-old daughter. The 28-year-old Roshin was ...
The so-called honour killing of 18-year-old Saman Abbas, who went missing in April 2021, shocked Italy. Her father, Shabbar Abbas, was convicted by the court in the northern city of Reggio Emilia ...
A protest in Arbil against Aswad's killing attracted hundreds of Kurds who called for an end to honor killings. [9] [10] It is believed Aswad's murder sparked, or was used as a pretext for, a reprisal attack in Mosul on 22 April [11] in which 23 Yazidis were killed [3] and for which the Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility. [12]
The book explores the deeply rooted social practice of honor killing, analyzing its historical, cultural, and psychological aspects. Churchill aims to shed light on the causes of honor killing, drawing from original research and proposing methods for prevention to protect girls and women from falling victim to this tragic phenomenon. [1]
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.