Last week, the Jordanian Court of Cassation upheld the Criminal Court’s verdict convicting two brothers of the premeditated murder of their sister and her sister-in-law. The court rejected their defence that they acted to uphold their family’s honour and handed them the maximum penalty. This...
ViolenceThere is much talk currently about the genetic basis of violence and crime. Yet far from undermining the National Children's Bureau (NCB) position that 'children are not born violent: they are made so', evolutionary biology wholeheartedly endorses this view. From Darwin to Dawkins, the...
honey/‘hΛni/n.蜜,蜂蜜;甜,甜蜜 honour/‘ɔnə/n.光荣;尊敬,敬意 honourable/‘ɔnərəbl/a.诚实的;光荣的 hook/huk/n.钩,挂钩vt.钩住 hope/həup/n.&vt.&vi.希望 hopeful/‘həupful/a.有希望的 hopeless/‘həuplis/a.没有希望的,绝望的 horizon/hə’raizn/n.地平线...
In 1922 B.E.Footnote39was described as “immoral , dionysiac and cocaine-addict”. She had two children from an “illegal relationship which lasted six years”Footnote40and some time prior to internment she was shot at by her lover who was under the influence of cocaine. The psychiatrist rec...
(Urdu: عید قرباں), Eid al-Bakr and Bakrid is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honour the willingness of the prophet ʾIbrāhīm (Abraham) to sacrifice his young first-born son Ismā’īl (Ishmael) as an act of submission to God’s ...
For these fantastic intelligence scores, Van Haarlem received a medal from the Soviet Union at a private party held in his honour in Prague. "He moved a lot," Johanna later told a Dutch radio station. "From that small apartment I visited the first time to bigger, fancier places… I had...
he did… stand upon a just moderation of keeping his own in good and happy case than, multiplying desire upon desire, seeking one enemy after another, put both his honour and people’s safety in the continual dice of fortune…. *** But yet, O man, rage not beyond thy need:Deem it ...
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the tangata whenua of Aotearoa, iwi Māori, and extend our deepest appreciation to the 43 participants in our community consultations. Your generous contribution of time, knowledge, experiences, and emotions has been invaluable. We recognise and honour your strength,...
5 Alexander von Hoffman notes: ‘In the mid nineteenth century, changes in thinking about the formation of individual character, the importance of home life, spiritual redemption, the nature of poverty, the causes of crime and vice, and the sources of disease all converged to produce a moral ...