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An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing [1] is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the ...
Honour killing is an act of murder, in which a person is murdered for his or her perceived immoral behaviour. Such "immoral behaviour" may take the form of alleged marital infidelity, refusal to submit to an arranged marriage, demanding a divorce, perceived flirtatious behaviour and being raped.
An honor killing is a practice in some societies when family members justify killing a person, ... The United Nations Population Fund estimates that up to 5,000 women are killed each year in such ...
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women: DEVAW was one of the documents invoked by the UN Commission on Human Rights in Resolution 1994/45 adopted on 4 March 1994, [13] in which it decided to appoint Radhika Coomaraswamy as its first United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, including its causes and ...
The fact that honor killing has ever existed, and indeed continues to exist (at the rate of 20,000 per year) cannot but sicken us to mourn our hapless far-flung sisters. [ 2 ] Professor of law Sital Kalantry [ b ] welcomed Churchill's focused approach on this specific form of gender-based violence, and said it allows for deeper insights into ...
The chairperson's duties include declaring a meeting to be open or closed, directing the discussion in a session, announcing decisions made by the committee, preparing agendas in consultation with the secretary-general, designating the members of pre-sessional working groups and representing the committee at United Nations meetings which the ...
The case was the first honor killing trial in Sweden. [ 9 ] The sentences of uncles Rezkar and Dakhaz were commuted to limited durations of 24 and 25 years in prison and they were released after having served two thirds of the time in 2016.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...