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ahida's brother brutally ttacked her because he alleged
he had been unfaithful and
.rought shame to the family He, ,ut off her ears tongue and
, ,ose gouged out her eyes and
.eft her for dead
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ONOURKILLING
:RESENTED BY
ALAJ SAXENA
YOTIKATARIA
EENU
CHABBRA
ANJANA JHA
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HAT IS HONOUR
KILLING• onor crimes are acts of, ,iolence usually murder ommitted by male family
( )embers mostly against,emale family members who
re held to have brought
.ishonor upon the family
:y Human Rights Watch
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EASONS FOR HONOUR
KILLINGS• uspicions of infidelity
•Promiscuity•Flirting
• esire for divorce
• arrying someone of their wn choice
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ONOUR KILLINGS AS A LOBAL PROBLEM
• arge number of cases are eported mostly in parts of the
iddle East and South Asia
• ,onetheless the issue is a lobal one where other cases
ave been reported in
, ,angladesh Great Britain, , , ,razil Ecuador Egypt India, , , ,srael Italy Jordan Pakistan, , ,orocco Sweden Turkey and
.ganda
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NDIAN ASPECTS
• ’ndia s social ystem is based on
aste hierarchy• he problem in the
illages is the trong presence of
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• luster of villages united by
aste and geography
• ll boys and girls within a HAP are considered siblings
•
, ,revalent in HARYANA PUNJAB
TTAR PRADESH and RAJASTHAN
• hose living in HAP re not llowed to marry in same
OTRA or even in any GOTRA rom the same village
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ULTURAL DEFENSE
• dea of tradition and keeping p with the tribal beliefs f the role of women in
society• he strong emphasis on familyrelationships
• elief that the demands of“ ”esterners deny the ifferent cultural
raditions of those
racticing honor killings
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ISCONCEPTION ABOUT
ONOUR KILLING• his is a practice that
s limited to the ruralareas
• t has religious roots
• nvolves the killing ofwomen only
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ARIOUS
LOOPHOLES• amilies try to pass off the urder as natural deaths
•
nder the table deals of olice department with the illers of innocent young ouples
• uthless following of caste ystem
• -O CALLED family honour in
society
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HAT HAS BEEN DONE
• ,embers of Khap panchayat who rder the killing of the
,ouples will be treated as
ccomplices in the crime• ases would be tried by fast
rack courts to provide
peedy justice to thevictims
• pecial laws are made to
afeguard the victims
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OLITICAL
PRESSURE•Ideology
•Brotherhood• ote bank
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…EALITY CHECK
• ,round 5 000 women die very year worldwide
• ,ajority in Pakistan ndia and Bangladesh
• revalent in all
– ,ommunities Hindus uslims and Sikhs
•
•
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…ONTINUED
• ,t least 900 honour illings take place
n three Indian– ,tates Punjab
aryana and Uttar
–radesh every year
• are in south and east
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SUMMARY•
-ooking at India two differentworlds
• ,ne progressing economically,echnologically in terms of
heir ideas and outlook towards heir lives
• ,ther still bound by rigid eliefs of the caste system that
xisted hundred of years ago and efuse to move ahead
• HERE WILL THESE TWO
ORLDS MEET
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…EFERENCE• . .ww opendemocracy com
• . .ww allacronyms com
• . .ww stophonourkilling com
•
. .ww wikipedia com
•
•
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ET THEM
…….EET PLEASE
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UESTION ???
HONOUR KILLING
OR
KILLING HONOUR