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Some estimates suggest that more than 200 honor killings occur every year in Syria. [143] The Syrian civil war has been reported as leading to an increase in honor killings in the country, mainly due to the common occurrence of war rape, which led to the stigmatization of victims by their relatives and communities, and in turn to honor killings ...
In 2014, the research corporation Westat released a study on honor killings and violence entitled "Honor Violence Measurement Methods". The study was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice, and it identified four types of honor violence: honor killings, honor-based domestic violence, forced marriage, and female genital mutilation. The ...
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 ...
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.
A Virginia sheriff's deputy posed as a 17-year-old boy online and asked a teenage California girl for nude photos before he drove across the country and killed her mother and grandparents and set ...
Pages in category "Honor killing in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
According to the National Institutes of Health, honor killing is a violent crime committed by one or more perpetrators, in which the crime’s intention is to restore honor to their family.
The Colonial Parkway murders were the serial murders of at least ten people in the U.S. state of Virginia between 1986 and 1989. [1] The killings were associated with the Colonial Parkway, a 22-mile long thoroughfare that cuts through the Colonial National Historical Park and connects Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown.