Ⅰ. Introduction
1) Definition
Human Rights Watch defines "honorkillings" as follows:
Honorkillings are acts of vengeance, usually death, committed by male family members against female family members, who are held to have brought dishonor upon the family. A woman can be targeted by (individuals within) her family for a variety of reasons, including: refusing to enter into an arrange
-Other oppression of women's rights
We treat not only honorkilling but also other violent behavior against women's right as a human. There are a few cases about this.
1) "Bibi-Aisha"
The woman in the picture is Aisha, who ran away from Taliban. And there are sentence, "What happens if we leave Afghanistan."
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2) other many cases
October 2002 in Acton, West London, UK.
Kurdish Abdullah Yones murdered his 16 years old daughter by repeated stabbing and cutting down her throat. She was in a relationship with her Lebanese teacher and planned to elope. Fearing that she was becoming westernized and will be a disgrace to family, her father murdered her in name of honorkilling.
3. Ban on HonorKilling
If government or religious group can be active, honorkilling will be eradicated. However, the government ignores that issue. In 2004, criminal prosecution bill for honorkilling was submitted to the Jordan National Assembly, but it was dismissed by the conservative section's overwhelming opposition. A bill to ban on honorkilling was dismissed in Pakistan, also.
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2. Religious view of honorkilling
1) In Quran.
What Quran said about adultery?
If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, Take the evidence of four (Reliable) witnesses from amongst you against them; and if they testify, confine them to houses until death do claim them, or Allah ordain for them some (other) way. (004.015)
If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If