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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 ...
Rana Husseini was born in 1969. She has been an active journalist and activist since 1993, when she began working for The Jordan Times. After hearing the story of a 16 year old girl that was raped, silenced and then killed by her brother for tarnishing her family's honor in 1994, Ranaa Husseini was inspired to write a book about her and many other women that experienced the same fate .
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]
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 Italian court sentenced two parents to lifetime imprisonment on Tuesday for killing their teenage daughter after she refused to travel to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. The so-called honour ...
Heshu's case was the first in the United Kingdom to be legally recognised and prosecuted as an honour killing; [4] [5] it led to the creation of a specialist task force [6] [7] in honour-based violence and, subsequently, to the reviewing of more than 100 previous cases of murder and suicide for any indication that "honour" was a factor. [8] [9]
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 ...
The killing of Surjit Athwal was planned in the UK and done in India; Murder of Tulay Goren; Murder of Heshu Yones; So-called honour killings of people with Kurdish ethnic heritage: Pela Atroshi (Iraqi Kurdistan) Fadime Şahindal (Sweden) Hatun Sürücü (Germany) So-called honour killings of other people with Iraqi national heritage: