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Honor killings continue to receive some support in the conservative regions of Turkey. In 2005, a small survey in Diyarbakir in southeastern Turkey found that, when asked the appropriate punishment for a woman who has committed adultery, 37% of respondents said she should be killed, while 21% said her nose or ears should be cut off. [ 156 ]
One of the world regions with a long tradition of honor-based violence is the Mediterranean The Indian subcontinent, a region where honor killings occur 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 ...
Several honor killings have been documented in the United States. As of 2012, there is no central agency that collects data across all jurisdictions in regards to honor violence in the United States. [citation needed] There is reluctance among some organizations to label events as honor killings to avoid stigmatizing Muslim and Arab cultures. [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.
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Honor killings have followed Afghan women from their war-torn homeland to the sometimes impoverished communities where millions have fled over four decades of instability that started with the ...
Khalida Brohi, Pakistani activist and author has spoken out around the world against so-called honor killings. Her memoir is 'I Should Have Honor.' How a cousin's murder led an Arizona woman to ...
The term karo-kari is commonly used as a synonym to honour killing, [5] especially in the Sindh region of Pakistan. [ 16 ] Originally, karo and kari were metaphoric terms for adulterer and adulteress, but it has come to be used with regards to multiple forms of perceived immoral behavior.