Although often portrayed as a practice born from Islam or Arab culture, honor killings are really a Mediterranean punishment that herald from Greek civilization. And...

The video footage of a 17-year-old girl being flogged by Taliban in Swat has received nationwide attention including condemnation from the President of Pakistan and sou...

The highest incidence of violence against women in Pakistan, in the year 2008, has been reported in the Punjab province. In a news report, published in the English...

Honor killings in the southern-coastal Iraqi city of Basra have seen a 70% increase in the past year. And authorities are helpless in the stopping of such crimes and...

Muslim honor killings of daughters came to Georgia last month.A Pakistani immigrant who strangled his daughter because she wanted to end her arranged marriage did it...

Sandela Kanwal wanted a divorce for unknown reasons. Maybe her husband in Chicago was a wife-beater. Maybe she just didn’t like him. We don’t know. For...

A married woman can leave her husband’s house only in a coffin- is a famous epitaph in most of the chauvinistic driven Islamic countries. Are women a mere...