That's almost three honor killings a day.
"U.N. women's rights group criticized Pakistan for honor killings, trafficking," from The Associated Press, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair:
UNITED NATIONS: A U.N. committee charged with promoting women's rights expressed concern over an increasing number of reported "honor killings" in Pakistan and criticized the country for failing to adequately address the trafficking of women.Members of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women questioned Pakistan's sincerity in tackling the issue of the extrajudicial killings, asking why they appear to be rising even after a new law aimed at banning them was passed in 2004.
"Have all the criminals guilty of these murders been prosecuted?" asked Maria Regina Tavares da Silva, a committee expert from Portugal, according to transcripts of the meeting obtained this week. "There is leniency and tolerance toward this crime."
The committee was meeting to review the progress of countries that have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Since 1979, 185 countries have acceded to it, pledging to implement laws to end discrimination against women.
The committee pointed to a shadow report submitted by a group of Pakistani rights organizations that alleged that Pakistan has not done enough to eliminate tribal courts and practices such as "honor killings," an ancient custom in which those accused of committing adultery or violating other sexual mores are killed by relatives. Most of the victims are women.
The groups contended that such extrajudicial killings are on the rise, though representatives from the Pakistani government argued that a rise in reported killings did not represent an increase in the number of incidents.
The government said the rise is evidence of progress since such acts have traditionally gone largely unreported.
The independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, citing government figures, said in a report last year that about 1,000 women die annually in honor killings.
They're "concerned".
Isn't that special?
"Honor killing". What an oxymoron that is.
Kinda like "moderate muslim".
Yeah. And don't forget the notion of Sharia Lite as a solution to the world's ills.
That's just horrible, but the West should NOT try to try to do anything about this. The more Islamic countries oppress their women, the more they'll decline as societies and the further they'll fall behind the civilized world.
And that's a good thing.
We can also find these very honourable men elsewhere
In July 1996, 24-year-old Kajal Khidr was detained by six members of her husband's family near the town of Rania in Iraqi Kurdistan. They accused her of adultery and, although she was pregnant, tortured and mutilated her. They cut off part of her nose, and told her that she would be killed after the birth of her child. After receiving treatment at a hospital in Rania, she managed to escape and received three further months of treatment at a hospital in the city of Sulaimaniya, where she was kept under police protection. She then spent a year in hiding before finding protection in a women's refuge in Sulaimaniya. With the help of local human rights activists Kajal Khidr escaped to Syria in February 1999 and was recognized as a refugee by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In July 2000 she was resettled in a third country where she lives with her daughter, now four years old. Two of the men who had tortured Kajal Khidr were arrested by the authorities in the area, which is controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), but were released within 24 hours because it was argued that they had acted to safeguard the honour of the family. No charges were ever brought against them.
Every year, in countries around the world, girls and women are brutally assaulted or killed – usually by members of their own family – in the name of ''honour''. They are accused of bringing shame on their families and community by their behaviour. This can range from simply having a conversation with a male neighbour to having sexual relations outside marriage. The mere perception that a woman has contravened the code of sexual behaviour damages honour. Women on whom suspicion has fallen are not given an opportunity to defend themselves and men are encouraged to remove the ''stain'' on their honour by attacking the woman.
Iraqi law allows male relatives to kill a female relative in the name of honour without any consequent punishment. Women's organizations and human rights activists in Iraqi Kurdistan have reported that many thousands of women in the areas controlled by the PUK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) have been tortured or killed by relatives and others who claim they are acting to protect the honour of the family. Women who have been raped, as well as those accused of adultery – or any sort of contact with a man who is not a family member – have been among the victims, as have women who have refused to marry the man chosen by their family. Neither the KDP nor the PUK have denied that women have been the victims of so-called ''honour crimes''.
A list of women who have been murdered or burned themselves to death in Iraqi-Kurdistan (1991-1999)
In April 1991, 20 years old Fatima Ahmedwho lived in Pishdar area was killed by her brother for honour.
At the end of March 1991 Sagul Ismael 40 years old and the mother of nine children was killed in Sulaimaniya by her cousin’s son named Kawa Muhammed Kowloz.
In 1991, Khaj Hassan Hama, 25 years old from Nawdashty was murdered because she was pregnant out of marriage.
On the 2nd of October 1991, Nihayat, 26 years old, worker in a tailoring factory, was killed by her ex-husband. She had married again and was four months pregnant when she was murdered.
On 18th of August 1991, Ayesha Abdulrahman, 45 years old and an activist of PUK, was murdered in her own home.
On July 1991, a family based on love was destroyed in Erbil; the woman’s father, brother and some other defendants murdered the woman named Ziryan, the reason being that this woman loved her husband and she married him but her relatives didn’t agree to the marriage.
In March 1992, Mleeha Faris burnt herself in the collective town of Samood. She died after few hours. She had been forced to marry an old man.
Mihabed Haji Abdulla, 16, was killed by her brother in 1992 because she loved a boy.
In 1992 Fakhria Salim Fattah, 28, who lived in Pishdar area, was killed because of adultery.
Sabiha Youseif Mustafa, 18, from Pishdar, burned herself to death in 1992 because she had been forced to marry a man she didn’t love. She had been exchanged for another woman, each forced to marry the other’s brother.
Zilekhan Muhammed, 30, from Hiran area was killed by her relatives in 1993.
Khatun Raouf Mirza, 24 years old, from Qaladiza, who had divorced and then remarried, was killed by her ex-husband in 1993.
Nigar Muhammed Haji, 20, from Rania, was killed in 1993 because she was in love with a man.
Khadija Saleman Ali, 21 years old, was killed by her brother in law in 1993.
A woman named Fatima from Shorish quarter was killed by her husband on 25.08.1993.
Bafrin Ahmed Muhammed, 21, from Rania was killed in 1993 for adultery.
Astry Omer Abdulla, 35 years old, was killed by her husband in 1993.
Sakina Haji Beg, 35, was killed in Sheih Wasan village on 20.08.1993 by her brother because fell in love and married her lover; her brother killed her after seven years of marriage.
Bayan Ali Sofi, from Rania and a mother of 6 children was killed by her brother because she loved another man, not her husband. He tied her to a stone and threw her into Sirwan River. She was found after a week between Chinara and Darbandikhan.
On 27th August 1993, Nazaneen was killed by her husband in Bahraka. The murder happened after a quarrel between them.
The complete list
http://www.ikwro.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=2
Pakistanis are behind the times. Women are treated worse than dogs and the sad part about it, the women accept it.
1,000 honor killing the islamic paradise is proberly an undercount. many so called suicides of young muslimn women are honor killing. i hope the women's right's world will now concentrate on these honor killing in all islamic paradises and forget harping on a few overblown caes of so called " bride burnings" in India.
Quite rightly we should look at Pakistan, but we should not forget to look closer to home,
It used to be the case that liberal Britain left Islamic practice and ritual alone on the basis of respect for differences in culture; but now that we have our imported clerics, clearly undeserving of anything we might call respect, we are urged to leave it alone on the basis that it doesn’t much matter anyway. Or, where the concerned citizen was once told that he may not intervene he is now told that he need not intervene.
What this stance provides, unfortunately, is yet another theory to feed the practice that ignores the predicament of the thousands of young women. So schoolteachers will continue to lose pubescent girls – at an age when in law they should still be compelled to be there – and will continue to say nothing. Heads who know perfectly well that a planned fortnight’s ‘holiday’ in a distant land might mean a vanishing off the face of the earth will, still, alert nobody. Social services and police will still take little or no action with the glib get-out that it is all too ‘sensitive’.
The Government will still give passports for bogus husbands to treat child brides as they please, not to mention work permits to ‘imams’, who often don’t have a single religious or teaching qualification and whose sole purpose is to ensure that the old ways never, ever change.
Also helping to preserve the old ways, there will still be muslim youth being raised to protect family honour by spying on their sister, and then being encouraged to participate either in her beating or a beating of her ‘unsuitable’ friends: systematic induction into violence before the first whisker is in sight.
In the Spanish Inquisition, 1000 people over a 300 year period were put to death. I wonder how many people Islam kills each year for religious reasons ... oh yah ... killing women is just cultural and not true Islam. But then only Muslim crap doesn't stink.
Honor Killing isnot support by the Koran. Pakistian willnot change it legal system to make the racist bigot west happy.
The Washington Time report of CAIR loseing member is
false written by than reporter who isnot allow to cover CAIR events as she is too agvent driven and blias.
Islam is losing members as they have realized Islam is for losers...
DefenderofIslam ...
Who care's if honor 'murder' is santioned by the Quran, or not. It is prevelent in the Ummah anyway.
CAIR
The woman has it right, defender,the money number's were published. Sorry, the racist, bigot west, just wont support CAIR. Guess those CAIR guy's will just have to find 'real' job's...
...Muslims have just issued the "just because" Fatwa.....They can kill you "just because"...
Hey Defender -
For the sake of all of us, take some English lessons, would ya ?