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	Thousands of Women Killed for Family "Honor" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family "honor." It's difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honor killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honor justifies the act in the eyes of some societies.
		Most honor killings occur in countries where the concept of women as a vessel of the family reputation predominates, said Marsha Freemen, director of International Women's Rights Action Watch at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
		But while honor killings have elicited considerable attention and outrage, human rights activists argue that they should be regarded as part of a much larger problem of violence against women.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/02/0212_020212_honorkilling.html (727 words)

	Middle East Report 206: Legalism and Realism in the GulfSheila Carapico
		The honor killing-the execution of a female family member for perceived misuse of her sexuality-is a thorny social and political issue.
		The honor killing emerged in the pre-Islamic era, according to Sharif Kanaana, professor of anthropology at Birzeit University.
		The group publicized the recent honor killing of a woman from the Ramallah area, referring to her as a "martyr" of her society, thereby seeking to promote a redefinition of the "dishonorable" woman's status.
	www.merip.org /mer/mer206/ruggi.htm (2669 words)

	Gendercide Watch: "Honour" Killings and Blood Feuds
		Most "honour" killings of women occur in Muslim countries, the focus of this case study; but it is worth noting that no sanction for such murders is granted in Islamic religion or law.
		While the victims of Pakistani "honour" killings are overwhelmingly female, tradition dictates that males involved in the "crimes" should face death as well.
		As with witch-hunts, however, "honour" killings also need to be viewed from a broader societal perspective; they derive from expectations of female behaviour that are held and perpetuated by men and women alike.
	www.gendercide.org /case_honour.html (3876 words)

	Honor Killings \| Culture & Society
		The practice, she said, "goes across cultures and across religions." Complicity by other women in the family and the community strengthens the concept of women as property and the perception that violence against family members is a family and not a judicial issue.
		Honor killings are perpetrated for a wide range of offenses.
		Even though the crime was reported to the police and the perpetrator was arrested, the Pathan tribesmen decided that she had brought shame to her tribe and she was killed in front of a tribal gathering.
	www.eruditiononline.com /01.04/honor_killings.htm (963 words)

	Honour killing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In societies and cultures where it occurs, honour killing is often regarded as a private matter for the affected family alone; rarely do non-family members or the courts become involved or prosecute the perpetrators.
		Furthermore, many honour killings (along with some Crimes of passion) are based on sheer suspiscion as opposed to (what appears to be) factual proof, in relation to the idea that an individual has committed or been involved in an "undesirable act", in the mind of the perpetrator(s).
		An honour killing, in Islamic definitions, refers specifically to extra-legal punishment by the family against the woman, and is technically forbidden by the Sharia (Islamic law).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honor_killing (3105 words)

	Honor Killing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In various countries throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East and parts of South Asia, women who bring dishonor to their families because of sexual indiscretions are forced to pay a terrible price at the hands of male family members.
		The problem of “honor killings” is not a problem of morality or of ensuring that women maintain their own personal virtue; rather, it is a problem of domination, power and hatred of women who, in these instances, are viewed as nothing more than servants to the family, both physically and symbolically.
		Confronting the problem of “honor killings” and other crimes that disproportionately affect women requires a change in attitude that pervades all levels of society where such attacks occur.
	www.mwlusa.org /publications/positionpapers/hk.html (1066 words)

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