12 honour killings per year in UK So-called ‘honour’-based violence (HBV) occurs in communities where the concepts of honour and shame are fundamentally bound up with the expected behaviours of families and individuals, particularly those of women. Read more here Tweets...
ITV's true-crime drama Honour has just hit Netflix, and already it's stormed to the top of the streaming platform's most-watched list. The chilling yet gripping two-part story retells the murder of 20-year-old British Muslim woman Banaz Mahmod (Buket Kömür) in 2006, the victim of...
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This crime has been around for quite some time now. However, it got recognized by the Indian society as a crime separate from that of murder, pretty recently. There are, however, no separate legal provisions in India, which deal exclusively with the crime of honour killing. Instances of ho...
She also commented that the crime "wears many faces" and warned against making sweeping generalisations about the type of person affected by the abuse. "What I also learned from that day and from several people there was that this crime wears many different faces, and to assume that it happ...
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Earlier this year, Banaz's sister Payzee detailed her concerns that UK police aren't taking honour killings seriously enough in a Vice article, as Banaz reported concerns for her own safety to the police five times before her death. However, that seems to be something the ITV series will...
Yet, national crime statistics indicate that violence against women is undeniably a wide-ranging and systemic problem regardless of the ethnic background of the victim or perpetrator. In 2018, for example, 8 in 10 victims of domestic violence in Canada were women, while 77% of all domestic ...