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It was found in the said report that the photos of the girls, who were made to appear before the commission, did not match the images of the girls appearing in the said video." [ 9 ] In August 2018, on the order of the Supreme Court, the Kohistan police registered a first information report for the alleged honour killing of the five girls ...
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]
Around 2017, City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Ric Curtis led a team that analyzed honor killing statistics from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and made a proxy estimate for the United States based on that, resulting in an estimated 23–27 annual honor killings in the U.S.
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 Shafia family murders took place on June 30, 2009, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with their father's first wife Rona Muhammad Omar, 52 (all of Afghan origin), were found dead inside a car that was discovered underwater in front of the northernmost Kingston Mills lock of the Rideau Canal, [1] after they were reported missing. [2]
Human rights advocates are in wide agreement that the reported cases do not reflect the full extent of the issue, as honour killings have a high level of support in Pakistan's rural society, and thus often go unreported. [27] [28] Frequently, women & men murdered in honour killings are recorded as having committed suicide or died in accidents. [28]
In its report, "Pakistan: Honor Killings of Girls and Women", [183] published in September 1999, Amnesty International criticized governmental indifference and called for state responsibility in protecting human rights of female victims. To elaborate, Amnesty strongly requested the Government of Pakistan to take 1) legal, 2) preventive, and 3 ...
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]