Honour Killing2

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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



ONOURKILLING

:RESENTED BY

ALAJ SAXENA

YOTIKATARIA

EENU

CHABBRA

ANJANA JHA



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



EASONS FOR HONOUR

KILLINGS• uspicions of infidelity

•Promiscuity•Flirting

• esire for divorce

• arrying someone of their wn choice



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



NDIAN ASPECTS

• ’ndia s social ystem is based on

aste hierarchy• he problem in the

illages is the trong presence of



HAT IS KHAP

PANCHAYAT



• 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



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



ISCONCEPTION ABOUT

ONOUR KILLING• his is a practice that

s limited to the ruralareas

• t has religious roots

• nvolves the killing ofwomen only



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



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



OLITICAL

PRESSURE•Ideology

•Brotherhood• ote bank



…EALITY CHECK

• ,round 5 000 women die very year worldwide

• ,ajority in Pakistan ndia and Bangladesh

• revalent in all

– ,ommunities Hindus uslims and Sikhs

•

•



…ONTINUED

• ,t least 900 honour illings take place

n three Indian– ,tates Punjab

aryana and Uttar

–radesh every year

• are in south and east



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





…EFERENCE• . .ww opendemocracy com

• . .ww allacronyms com

• . .ww stophonourkilling com

•

. .ww wikipedia com

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OUR CHOICE



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