UN warns of an increase of "Honour killings" in Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/b7b2a35cb337777097cecc1b5cd4bd64.htm

Honour killings

The UNAMI report also warned of the increasing number of honour crimes against women in the country.

"In their fight against generalised violence, central, regional and local authorities should provide greater protection to women for crimes committed within the family, including all types of violence against women and girls on the grounds of honour," the report said.

"The killing of a woman in Iraq will not command the same media attention as that of a man. Honour killing is a terror that women in Iraq have been suffering from and those responsible should pay drastically for that," said Nuha Salim, spokesperson for the Baghdad-based NGO Women Freedom Organisation (WFO).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing

Honor killing is the killing of a female, and sometimes her love-interests and other associates <1>, for supposed sexual or marital offenses, typically by her own relatives, with the justification being that the "offense" has brought "dishonor" to the family. This practice is especially strongly condemned by many Western cultures for being a double standard and sexist, because males will not be killed for such an "offense"; i.e. if a man rapes a woman, it is the woman who "brings dishonor" to her family and not the rapist.

[acmavm]

1. Jeez, pretty soon that place will be nothing more than one huge

vacant lot.

[sabra]

2. hundreds of thousands have already fled the country

:-(

[filer]

3. We've freed those people to slaughter each other.

There I go again, dwelling only on the bad news. Have we painted another school recently?

[Karenina]

4. The paint is already flaking...

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