Category: Honour Crimes
Posted on December 29, 2011 by DaroonMK
Human Rights Day 2011 was warmly welcomed in London’s House of Lords where a board of delegates came together from across Europe in discussion and reflection of the developments and progress made within the global community on the agenda of human rights. …
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Posted on July 29, 2010 by Reem Shawkat (Sudan)
A.M.H was circumcised at the tender age of 9. She remembers the nitty-gritty details of this ordeal even though it has occurred over 40 years ago.
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Posted on June 25, 2009 by Shahrazad (Iran)
TEHRAN (AFP)–Iran’s parliament plans to scrap stoning and amputation of a hand as punishments in a revised version of the Islamic penal code, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday. “Parliaments judicial commission decided not to put some Islamic punishments …
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Posted on May 6, 2009 by Wamith Al-Kassab (Iraq)
6 Iraqi gay people were executed by machine guns in Sader city in April 2009, this makes the number of executed gays in Iraq reach 10 after 4 other executions in March in the last few weeks, 25 boys and …
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Posted on March 21, 2009 by Mohammad Memarian (Iran)
This essay motivated current post. Reducing social problems in general and women’s problems in particular to a simple dilemma, i.e. Islam, is the misleading theme repeated by those who fail to comprehend complexity of social phenomena. From their point of …
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Posted on December 12, 2008 by Kaw
According to a recent report, nearly 350 men and women were murdered in the name of honour since 2001 in Turkey. The list of ‘offences’ that are perceived to bring shame to a family is long, and includes falling a …
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Posted on August 29, 2008 by Nissim Dahan
Remember that Robert De Nero film when he said those words? I think it was Taxi Driver, and believe me; you wouldn’t want to be the one talking to him. You probably have enough troubles without getting a crazed animal …
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Posted on August 20, 2008 by Tasnim (Libya)
Every so often yet another picture of a young woman appears with the caption: “victim of an honour killing”, and often these pictures are encountered as an easy way to fuel Islamophobic sentiments, playing on the Muslim woman as victim …
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Posted on March 31, 2008 by Muneeb (Saudi Arabia/Pakistan)
OH… MY… GOD! I CANNOT BUH-LEIVE that this has happened. This is so sad and get’s one’s blood boiling Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the …
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by Nissim Dahan
Every once in a while we hear of an “honor killing” carried out by a family member against one of their own. Kawthar’s article about an Iranian father who stoned his daughter to death, for bringing “dishonor” to him and …
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