Sunday, April 05, 2009

Honour crimes have no country borders...

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“We are actively encouraging other countries to engage with us on how we can all unite in the fight against honour-based violence and a visit by officers from the Pakistani police force is a step to help us achieve this. 

“To the best of our knowledge, 12 people are murdered every year for transgressing someone else’s perverted notions of honour. We do not know how many commit suicide as an alternative or an escape. We know that around 500 men and women report to us every year their fear of being forced into marriage, or their experience of rape, assault, false imprisonment and much more, as the consequence of being in marriage without their consent.” Full story...

See also:

  1. Honour killings and honour suicides in Turkey...
  2. Jordanian man beats daughter to death for wearing make-up...
  3. The horrors of "honour" killings...
  4. Saudi man cuts daughter's tongue, burns her to death...
  5. Bangla-desh: ordeal of a British-based doctor forced into marriage...

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