The latest victim of familial revenge – or ‘honor killing’, as some may call it – is the well-known singer Shameem aka Aimen Udas. She was reportedly shot dead...

Among hundreds of different kinds of problems that common afghan women face one most serious problem is the burning of women. Where over five thousand people have...

Another so called honor killing just to satisfy the bruised male ego. Two girls from Greater Noida ran away from home with their friends, both were teenagers, school...

In yet another barbaric incident of honour killing in the Khairpur district of the Sindh Province of Pakistan, a 17- year-old girl was avenged for a crime not committed...

Now 21 year old TV mechanic Karan Sharma is a new victim of Honor Killing. He was brutally thrashed on Monday by his girlfriend’s father Kuldeep Singh who had...

Women in Pakistan continue to suffer from violence in different forms, as tells the Daily Times in its October 13, 2008, edition. Acts of violence against women include...

” Every Child has a right to be Protected from Honor Killing.” Love birds Rekha and Sonu were thrashed,strangled and burnt to death in the viilage Vair...

Over than 200 victims of what so called “honor killings” were reported in Syria last year according to The Syrian Women Observatory, and the number is way...

A man who was suspected of drowning his 22-year-old sister for having an extramarital affair was charged Monday with premeditated murder, a judicial official said. The...

Lack of political and social freedom for the Muslim women in the Middle East has added to their sufferings in many ways. The latest manifestation is the honor killings....

It seems that honor killing is a deep-seated tradition in Muslim countries. It is a kind of manacle that has been created by man to restrict the over all progress of...

On eleventh of December, UNICEF’s Iraq Office said that Iraqi women need imperative action to defend and uphold their rights. Iraq is a society that has...

Noor Jeha, a 14 year old Pakistan girl was brutally attacked by 2 male cousins only because the poor girl denied to get married. Noor was shot with 5 bullets when her...

In the conservative nation of Pakistan every year unaccountable number of death takes place in the name of the so called ritual ‘Honor Killing’ practiced...

For decades now ‘Honor Killing’ is a common practice among the Muslim community: in Pakistan the killing of a woman is so much so in vogue that it is of...

Women are treated as commodity in the Muslim World and Ethiopia is an example for it. The Muslim women are being brutally beaten by the males, even to the extent of...

I really thank Souad for writing such book. It is really mind blowing to hear from the women who herself was the target of the barbaric cultural of honor killing. The...

Honor killing has become the part of Syrian society. Most of these crimes are committed when a daughter marries outside the community. The laws in such cases are not...

The rise in the number of ‘honour killings’ among Muslim communities in Britain has alarmed the British police. Though the correct statistics of such deaths...