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    Honor killings involve the murder of a family or clan member, usually a woman, who is perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family. They occur in some Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Mediterranean countries and immigrant communities. Reasons for honor killings include suspicions of infidelity, promiscuity, flirting, desire for divorce, marrying without family consent, or unacceptable clothing. While not sanctioned by law or Islam, over 1,000 honor killings still occur in India each year according to legal experts. UN resolutions have condemned honor killings as human rights violations.

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    Honor killings involve the murder of a family or clan member, usually a woman, who is perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family. They occur in some Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Mediterranean countries and immigrant communities. Reasons for honor killings include suspicions of infidelity, promiscuity, flirting, desire for divorce, marrying without family consent, or unacceptable clothing. While not sanctioned by law or Islam, over 1,000 honor killings still occur in India each year according to legal experts. UN resolutions have condemned honor killings as human rights violations.

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    Honor killings involve the murder of a family or clan member, usually a woman, who is perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family. They occur in some Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Mediterranean countries and immigrant communities. Reasons for honor killings include suspicions of infidelity, promiscuity, flirting, desire for divorce, marrying without family consent, or unacceptable clothing. While not sanctioned by law or Islam, over 1,000 honor killings still occur in India each year according to legal experts. UN resolutions have condemned honor killings as human rights violations.

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    Honor killings involve the murder of a family or clan member, usually a woman, who is perceived to have brought dishonor upon the family. They occur in some Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Mediterranean countries and immigrant communities. Reasons for honor killings include suspicions of infidelity, promiscuity, flirting, desire for divorce, marrying without family consent, or unacceptable clothing. While not sanctioned by law or Islam, over 1,000 honor killings still occur in India each year according to legal experts. UN resolutions have condemned honor killings as human rights violations.

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    An honor killing or honour killing

    (see spelling differences) both are correct .


     It s also called customary killing.

    Discuss with some points :


     Reasons for honour killing  Misconception  What is being done?  UN Resolution  Some Case Histories  Fact and Figures

    What is honour killing ???


    

    An honour killing is the murder of a family or clan member by one or more fellow family members, where the murderers (and potentially the wider community) believe the victim to have brought dishonor upon the family .

    Cultural Concept
     A Middle Eastern and South Asian

    cultural practice whereby murder, usually of a female family member, is committed by male family members in response to abperceived slight upon the so-called honour of the family, with the sointent of defending that family honour

    Reasons for honour killings


    Suspicions of infidelity Promiscuity Flirting Desire for divorce Marrying someone of their own

    choice. Dressing manner unacceptable to the family or community.

    MISCONCEPTION

    Honor killings are not sanctioned by Government law and also Islamic law.

    What is being done?

     UN Resolution

    UN Resolution
     On October 24, 2002, at the 57th

    Session of the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee, the UN resolution, "Working Towards the Elimination of Crimes Committed in the Name of Honor" was passed. Honor"

    CASES OF HONOUR KILLING IN INDIA.

    Manoj-Babli honour killing case ManojHistorical significance of the

    ManojManoj-Babli case Monica and Kuldeep case.

    Nirupama Pathak CASE:

    HONOUR KILLINGS A GLOBAL PROBLEM.


    According to a 2002 report by the UN Special Reporter on Violence against Women, honour killings take place in Pakistan, Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Morocco and other Mediterranean and Gulf countries. It also occurs in countries such as Germany, France and the United Kingdom within immigrant communities. It is not only in Islamic countries or communities that this act of violence is prevalent. Brazil is cited as a case in point, where killing is justified to defend the honour of the husband in the case of a wife s adultery

    More than 1,000 young people in India have been done to death every year owing to 'Honour Killings' in INDIA two legal experts have claimed.

    Chandigarh-based legal experts Anil Malhotra and his brother Ranjit Malhotra have said that in traditional societies, honour killings are basically 'justified' as a sanction for 'dishonourable' behaviour.

    FACTS AND FIGURES

    FACTS AND FIGURES


     According to a government

    report, 4,000 women and men were killed in Pakistan in the name of honour between 1998 and 2003, the number of women being more than double the number of men

    FACTS AND FIGURES


     In Jordan and Lebanon, 70 to

    75 percent of the perpetrators of these so-called honour sokillings are the women s brothers

    BOOKS ON HONOUR KILLING.

    MOVIES ON HONOUR KILLINGS

    CAN WE HAVE PRINCIPLES WITH OUT ETHICS ?

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