Honour Killings
An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or a shame killing, is the murder of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators' belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community or a religion with an honor culture. Typical reasons include divorcing or separating from their spouse, refusing to enter an arranged, child or forced marriage, being in a relationship or having associations with social groups outside the family that is strongly disapproved by one's family, having premarital or extramarital sex, becoming the victim of …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Pakistan has been a priority country for international development assistance since the early years of its creation. Though Pakistan celebrates National Women’s Day on 12 February each year to commemorate …
tradi- tional practices, including so-called honour killings. Pakistan ranked fifth on non-sexual violence …
ARCC: Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada · 29 August 2024 English
Citations of the Code in local government bylaws and policies give the Code more authority and the force of law, and can become one part of a city’s defence in …
Edmonton for its removal of a bus ad about honour killings of Muslim women, which was seen as a “dog whistle” …
CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 7 June 2023 English
The survey was conducted in 18 countries and key findings include the international prevalence of online harms, as well as the impacts on the mental health, safety and freedom of …
much TFGBV against without citizenship and honour killings (Louie 2021; women (Aziz 2020). Gendered attacks …
ARCC: Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada · 13 April 2022 English
1 analysis … In my view, the Court may take judicial notice of the Code in order to better understand the context of this case.” (para 69) o “…it appears …
Edmonton for its removal of a bus ad about honour killings of Muslim women, which was seen as a “dog whistle” …
ARCC: Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada · 7 November 2021 English
Justice Gill held that the City’s objective of providing a safe and welcoming transit system far outweighed the negative effects of its refusal to run offensive or discriminatory ads on …
Edmonton for its removal of a bus ad about honour killings of Muslim women, which was seen as a “dog whistle” …
ULCC: Uniform Law Conference of Canada · 11 January 2021 English
Reiterating their commitment to the work of ULCC, ―Deputy Ministers agreed to renew their commitment to the invaluable work of the ULCC, to reconsider sending a delegation to the Criminal …
prevent its application in cases involving ―honour‖ killings and spousal homicides that are provoked by …
desLibris · 8 December 2020 English
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: An Overview 1 As the first publication in this series, this paper In order to contribute to this research area, CIGI serves as an introduction to TFGBV …
wearing her hijab) and threats of so-called honour killings. Disabled women who rely on assistive devices …
desLibris · 7 December 2020 English
wearing her hijab) and threats of so-called honour killings. Disabled women who rely on assistive devices …
RCIS: Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement · 5 December 2020 English
This working paper addresses the following questions: What do narratives mean and what is distinct about political and policy narratives? What are the characteristics of migration narratives? Who are the …
headscarves/face covers, forced marriage, and honour killings. There have been cases in France and the Netherlands …
RCIS: Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement · 5 December 2020 English
This working paper addresses the following questions: What do narratives mean and what is distinct about political and policy narratives? What are the characteristics of migration narratives? Who are the …
headscarves/face covers, forced marriage, and honour killings. There have been cases in France and the Netherlands …
