Synopses & Reviews
This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organizations addressing so-called "honour crimes", including "honour killings" and interference with the right to marry, as well as analyzing relevant crosscutting thematic issues. In addition, this book identifies relevant intersecting thematic issues from practice-orientated academic perspective. It seeks to highlight a human rights based framework in seeking to address "crimes of honour" rather than taking a culturally relativist approach.
Synopsis
This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and interference with the right to choice in marriage, and the related use and legal treatment of the defence of 'honour' and 'provocation' in different countries of Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. This timely volume is distinctive in approach and content, highlighting activist and practice-orientated academic perspectives from both the South and the North.
The authors give voice to the struggle to locate 'crimes of honour' firmly within the international framework of violence against women and human rights, rather than positioning these abuses as specific to particular cultures or communities. The first of its kind, this book serves as a resource in addressing 'honour crimes' and, more broadly, violence against women, and will be of interest to a multi-disciplinary academic audience as well as to lawyers, policy-makers and activists.
About the Author
Sara Hossain is a barrister practicing at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. Lynn Welchman is Senior Lecturer in the Law Department, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Violence Against Women and 'Crimes of Honour'
Radhika Coomeraswamy
INTRODUCTION
Honour, Rights and Wrongs
Lynn Welchman and Sara Hossain
The United Nations and International Advocacy on 'Crimes of Honour'
Jane Connors
'Crimes of Honour': Value and Meaning
Purna Sen
The Role of 'Community Discourse' in Combatting 'Crimes of Honour': Preliminary Assessment and Prospects
Abdullahi An-Naim
'Honour Killings' and the Law in Pakistan
Sohail Warraich
Women Murder in Lebanon: 'Crimes of 'Honour' between Reality and the Law
The Lebanese Council to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
Crimes of Honour as Violence Against Women in Egypt: An Analysis and Future Prospects
The Centre for Egyptian Women Legal Assistance
Researching Women's Victimization in Palestine: A Socio-Legal Analysis
Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian
Culture, National Minority and the State: Working against 'the Crime of Family Honour' among the Palestinian Community in Israel
Aida Touma-Sliman
Changing the rules? Developments on 'crimes of honour' in Jordan
Reem Abu Hassan and Lynn Welchman
Honour-based Violence among the Kurds: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan
Nazand Begikhani Killing
'Crimes of Honour' in the Italian Penal Code: an Analysis of History and Reform
Maria Gabriella Bettiga
'Legitimate Defence of Honour': Illegitimate Impunity for Murder.
A Critical study of legislation and case law in Latin America
Silvia Pimental, Val‚ria Pandjiarjian and Juliana Belloque.
Women's Struggles Against 'Honour Crimes' in the UK
Hannana Siddiqui
Forced Marriage in Bangladesh: Of Consent and Contradiction
Dina Siddiqi
From Fathers to Husbands: Of Love, Death and Marriage in North India
Uma Chakravarty
Tackling Forced Marriages in the Nordic Countries: Between Women's Rights and Immigration Control
Anja Bredal
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INDEX