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„Most of these cases will always be invisible,“ says Barr. „Covered up and reported as suicides or disappearances.“
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canada goose clearance sale The other reason is society’s acceptance Canada Goose sale of discrimination against women. In a 2013 Cambridge University survey of 850 teenagers in Jordan, a third believed that honor killings were „morally right.“ Support for honor killing is far more likely among adolescent boys who have not spent much time in school, according to the report. And in a 2009 survey from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 68 percent of young Iraqi men believed that killing a girl for dishonoring the family was justifiable. canada goose clearance sale
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canadian goose jacket „It goes across cultural norms,“ says Christa Stewart, sexual violence program manager at Equality Now, a women’s and girls‘ rights organization. „It’s aimed at any woman who transgresses in a societal framework who canada goose asserts her own desire to marry on her own volition, not have a marriage imposed upon her or chooses education.“ In the case of Baloch, she says, her „transgression“ was clear: posting social media posts that defied cultural norms. canadian goose jacket
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In 2010, for example, Faleh Almaleki, an Iraqi immigrant living in Phoenix, Ariz., ran over his 20 year old daughter, Noor, with his Jeep. She was becoming too „Westernized,“ he told the police, and brought him dishonor by leaving an arranged marriage to an older cousin in Iraq. She died in the hospital two weeks later; in 2011, the buy canada goose jacket father was sentenced to 34 years in prison.
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The laws that allow families to get away with it are slowly changing. In 2009, Syria abolished a law that waived punishment for men who kill female family members in the name of honor and replaced it with a minimum two year sentence. Critics at Human Rights Watch said in a statement that „two years is better than nothing, but is hardly enough for murder.“ In 2011, Lebanon repealed a criminal code provision that permitted short sentences for family members found guilty or convicted of an „honor crime.“ And on Wednesday, the Pakistani government, facing mounting pressure in the wake of Baloch’s murder, has announced that it plans on passing long delayed legislation against honor killings within weeks. The law would close canada goose outlet a loophole that allows family members to pardon a killer.
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And some researchers believe the label for these acts is part of the problem. „We shouldn’t use the term ‚honor killings‘ at all,“ she says. „It’s just an excuse for murder.“.