Women’s Rights Watch (KWRW)
The Kurdish Women’s Rights Watch (KWRW) is an organization aimed for supporting and promoting women’s rights in the Kurdish community. It also incorporates KWAHK, which stands for Kurdish women: Action against Honor Killing, that is an honor-based violence campaign within the organization, established in 2000 in London. KWAHK is a network of Kurdish and non-Kurd
againstwomen within these institutions allows the perpetration of violence againstwomen to continue on an immense scale.
(4) Misconception of honor killing
There is a misconception regarding the practice of honor killing. The first misconception about honor killing is that this is a practice that is limited to the rural areas. The truth is that it is spread over such a large geographical
1. 성범죄의 의의와 개념정의
1) 성범죄의 개념
성범죄란 여성은 물론 남성까지 포함된 개인의 자유로운 성적 결정권을 침해할 뿐만 아니라 부녀의 신체의 완전성 침해까지 오는 범죄로서 강간뿐만 아니라 추행, 성희롱 등 모든 신체적, 언어적, 정신적 폭력을 포괄하는 광범위한 개념이다.
성폭력(
tribes society developed trust relationship but hold each other in check. Tribes superiority depends on tribe's military power, credibility and honors. So tribe's honor was symbol of Superiority, the honor comes from individual morality in the tribes.
Members who damage the honor were punished by their tribes. So the tribes prevent from a war against other tribes and preserve their own honor.
-Other oppression of women's rights
We treat not only honor killing but also other violent behavior againstwomen'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."
The following is an abridge version of an article that appears in the Aug,