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'Honour killings' (UK) / 'Honor killings' (USA)

Murdered for her selfies: Qandeel Baloch - Pakistan’s ‘Kim Kardashian’

Video    BBC Stories    21 October 2016

Murdered social media star Qandeel Baloch

posted images of herself

that few Pakistani women would dare to –

but did her traditional village background

catch up with her?

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoPGxkzEGw

Fouzia Azeem

(Urdu: فوزیہ عظیم‎; 1990 – 2016),

better known

by the name Qandeel Baloch

(Urdu: قندیل بلوچ‎),         USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qandeel_Baloch

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=_qoPGxkzEGw - BBC - 21 October 2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/07/27/
487467370/in-pakistans-heartland-a-perfect-storm-of-obstacles-to-protecting-women

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/07/19/
486607329/honor-killings-are-a-global-problem-and-often-invisible

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/16/
486305960/pakistani-social-media-star-falls-victim-to-apparent-honor-killing

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

HBO    21 February 2016

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (HBO Documentary Films)

HBODocs        21 February 2016

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk2OcKVu8qU

Amid Threat of Honor Killing, Couple Goes on the Run

NYT    21 April 2014

Amid Threat of Honor Killing, Couple Goes on the Run

Video        The New York Times        21 April 2014

Zakia and Mohammad Ali

are fleeing threats of arrest and death in Afghanistan

as a result of their marriage,

which crosses cultural boundaries.

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJYSy47j9o

'honour killing' / ‘honor killing' / crime        UK / USA

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/
1080843294/qandeel-baloch-brother-acquittal-murder-pakistan

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/09/04/
644498267/after-her-cousins-honor-killing-khalida-brohi-became-a-womens-rights-activist

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/20/
honour-killings-male-shame-violence-fgm-forced-marriage

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jun/27/
sharmeen-obaid-chinoy-home-1947-installation-manchester-international-festival-pakistan

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/world/europe/turkey-germany-
honor-killing.html

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=_qoPGxkzEGw - BBC - 21 October 2016

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/06/
496905205/pakistan-toughens-penalties-for-honor-killings

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/01/
488191830/amid-calls-to-end-honor-killings-in-pakistan-more-women-murdered

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/28/
honour-killings-qandeel-baloch-samia-shahid

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/07/27/
487467370/in-pakistans-heartland-a-perfect-storm-of-obstacles-to-protecting-women

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/07/19/
486607329/honor-killings-are-a-global-problem-and-often-invisible

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/16/
486305960/pakistani-social-media-star-falls-victim-to-apparent-honor-killing

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/07/19/
486607329/honor-killings-are-a-global-problem-and-often-invisible

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/16/
486305960/pakistani-social-media-star-falls-victim-to-apparent-honor-killing

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/mar/04/
a-girl-in-the-river-oscar-win-pakistan-end-honour-killings

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/02/29/
468582341/this-oscar-winning-film-could-help-end-honor-killings-in-pakistan

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/
opinion/sunday/her-father-shot-her-in-the-head-as-an-honor-killing.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/
sunday-review/in-danger-in-afghanistan-unable-to-flee.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/world/asia/
afghanistan-a-thin-line-of-defense-against-honor-killings.html

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/25/
are-honour-killings-really-too-dangerous-to-be-discussed-in-public

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/world/asia/
pregnant-pakistani-woman-is-beaten-to-death-by-her-family.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/world/asia/
in-spite-of-the-law-afghan-honor-killings-of-women-continue.html

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/23/
stop-honour-killing-murder-women-oppresive-patriarchy

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/world/asia/
2-star-crossed-afghans-cling-to-love-even-at-risk-of-death.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/21/
shafilea-ahmed-killing-chester-crown-court

http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9706000/9706514.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/21/
honour-crime-domestic-abuse

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/
a-question-of-honour-police-say-17000-women-are-victims-every-year-780522.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/03/
honour-crimes-cases

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/03/
honour-crimes-uk-rising

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/sep/19/uk
crime.haroonsiddique

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/world/europe/16turkey.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/21/
gender.features 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/30/
religion.world

'honour' crimes > Banaz Mahmod        UK

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/21/
honour-crime-domestic-abuse

'Honour' crimes: six cases        UK

Tulay Goren, 15,

from Woodford Green in north London,

was killed in January 1999

for running away from home

to live with her boyfriend.

Surjit Athwal,

a 27-year-old Sikh,

disappeared

after going to a family wedding

in India in December 1998.

Her mother-in-law Bachan Athwal,

a mother of six and grandmother of 16,

ordered Surjit's death at a family meeting

after discovering that her daughter-in-law,

a customs officer at Heathrow airport,

had been having an affair

and wanted a divorce

from her son Sukhdave.

Awais Akram

was left severely disfigured

after being attacked

because of a liaison

with a married businesswoman

whom he had met on Facebook.

Samaira Nazir,

a 25-year-old graduate

and recruitment consultant,

died after she tried

to escape her family home

following a row with her family

over her plans to marry

an Afghan asylum seeker.

Ahmed Bashir

died after he was attacked

with a sword and a machete

in the garden

of his own west London home.

Waseem Afsar, 32,

and Nisar Khan, 31,

both of Slough,

stabbed and slashed

the 21-year-old Afghan 43 times in 1996

for being in a relationship

with Afsar's younger sister Nighat.

Abdullah Mohammed, 41,

and his wife, Aysha, 39,

died after they were overcome

by smoke and fumes

at their home in Blackburn, Lancashire

in a bungled "honour" killing.

Four men

firebombed their house

in an attempt to kill

a Muslim man who was having

an affair with a married woman,

but poured petrol

through the wrong letterbox.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/03/
honour-crimes-cases 

arranged / forced marriage > UK

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/16/
forced-marriage-outlawed-ministers-curb-practice

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/21/
shafilea-ahmed-killing-chester-crown-court

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/21/
shafilea-ahmed-murdered-parents-court

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/11/
forced-marriage-pakistan-matrimony-laws

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/14/
forced-marriage-illegal-uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/mar/08/
religion

forcing someone into marriage in England and Wales

will carry a maximum seven-year jail sentence

under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014        UK

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/16/
forced-marriage-outlawed-ministers-curb-practice

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