http://www.stophonourkillings.com/ International Campaign Against Honour Killings en-us Le ministre de la Justice Jo Vandeurzen va charger un groupe de travail d'étudier la problématique des crimes d'honneur en vue d'élaborer un projet pilote, à l'image des Pays-Bas, a-t-il indiqué jeudi à la sénatrice Sabine de Bethune (CD&V). Coïncidence ou pas, le père de Sadia, la jeune pakistanaise abattue par son frère, a été remis en liberté jeudi. Le motif du meurtre résidait, selon des proches de la jeune victime, dans le fait que Sadia avait une liaison amoureuse à Charleroi, où elle poursuivait ses études, tandis que sa famille avait eu l'intention de la contraindre à un mariage avec un proche, au Pakistan. La semaine dernière, le comité consultatif de l'égalité des chances entre les femmes et les hommes a adopté une résolution relative aux crimes d'honneur, à l'initiative de Sabine de Bethune. Cette résolution plaide notamment pour une politique appropriée à la prévention des crimes d'honneur. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2806 Men should not be overlooked when it comes to investigating honour related crimes. That’s according to a debate article written in Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter, today. The government investigation found feminist views that see women as the main victims of honour related violence, have lead to male victims being forgotten about and male suspects being judged in advance. Many male victims are members of the homosexual, bi-sexual and transgender, or HBT, community. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2805 AMMAN: A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murdering his 23-year-old sister in an apparent "honour killing", a judicial official said. The unnamed suspect reportedly stabbed his sister 10 times in the heart on Wednesday in a village in the north-eastern governorate of Mafraq, said the official. "He has confessed to murdering his sister because she disappeared from home for a month with a boyfriend," the official said. It was the seventh reported so-called "honour" killing this year, according to security officials. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2804 Morsal Obeidi was born amid civil war in Afghanistan but it was in Hamburg, a peaceful German city, that she was murdered. The killer was her own brother, Ahmad, 23. He stabbed her 20 times to "protect the family's honour". He felt no regret. The incident happened in May but Hamburg's Afghan community is still in shock. Hamburg has the largest population of Afghans in Europe, but so far they have lived inconspicuously. Afghans are among Germany's better-integrated ethnic minorities. Some 40% are German citizens and the community values education. So what went wrong? Why did Ahmad feel compelled to kill his sister when in Afghanistan men like Perwez Kambakhsh risk death by challenging traditional perceptions of Afghan women? http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2803 LAHORE -- A man in a small Pakistani town killed his Danish sister-in-law because he suspected her of having a "bad character", police Tuesday said. Faisal Bashir shot dead 31-year-old Tahira Bibi, who was of Pakistani origin, local police official Mohammad Shahbaz Cheema told Agence France-Presse. "It's a case of honor killing as Faisal suspected his brother's wife had bad character," Cheema said. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2802 ‘Murder in the name of honour”: that was the headline under which the Jordan Times ran the first investigative report on honour killing in Jordan in the mid 1990s. Until then, honour killing was a taboo subject rarely addressed by the media. But the newspaper challenged the taboo and exposed the injustice to which women have been subjected. The report provoked severe criticism from conservative forces in society. But the newspaper’s extensive coverage of the subject triggered a campaign to fight the killings. The royal family threw its weight behind efforts to fight the practice. The religious establishment issued fatwas prohibiting the killing of women by male members of their families for allegedly violating the honour system. But a conservative parliament was not convinced. It aborted a government initiative to amend laws that were lenient to the perpetrators of these crimes. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2801 CPS lawyer Nazir Afzal today topped a Daily Mirror readers' poll, to win the People's Award, for his work in highlighting the issue of so-called honour crimes, where Asian women have been killed by members of their own families if they are judged to have brought shame by not marrying the man chosen for them. Nazir was one of five finalists the Daily Mirror described as showing 'the courage and determination of the people who try to make a difference'. Readers have been asked to submit votes for the past week and all MGN net profits from the poll will be donated to Women's Aid, a charity working to end domestic violence. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2800 http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2799 Die beiden internationalen Frauenfilmfestivals Flying Broom, Ankara und das Internationale Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund / Köln haben gemeinsam einen Treatment-Wettbewerb für Kurzfilme zum Thema Zwangsheirat und Kinderehe ausgeschrieben. Heute reisen die Gewinner des Wettbewerbs - fünf türkische und fünf deutsche TeilnehmerInnen - nach Ankara und beginnen unter der Anleitung von Drehbuchautorinnen und Regisseurinnen aus Deutschland und der Türkei mit der Realisation von zwei Kurzfilmen. Zwangsheirat und Kinderehe sind in vielen Teilen der Welt ein schwerwiegendes soziales wie kulturelles Problem. Viele Betroffene geraten in eine Situation, in der ihre Rechte auf Ausbildung, Gesundheit, Meinungsfreiheit sowie die Einhaltung ihrer sozialen Rechte nicht mehr gewährleistet sind. Flying Broom und das IFFF Dortmund / Köln haben daher gemeinsam mit der Unterstützung durch die Europäische Union dieses Kurzfilmprojekt initiiert, dessen Ziel es ist, das öffentliche Bewußtsein für dieses wichtige Thema zu schärfen. Die deutschen und türkischen GewinnerInnen des Wettbewerbs werden zunächst in Ankara der Presse vorgestellt: Leyla Özalp, Aylin Eren, Metin Akdemir, Sibel Ceren Sahin, Dogacan Onaran aus der Türkei und Maximilian Schach, Anne Kunze, Susan Gordanshekan, Janine Dittmann und Dennis Todorovich aus Deutschland. Als Workshoptrainerinnen fungieren von deutscher Seite die Kölner Drehbuchautorin Bernadette Richter und die Berliner Regisseurin Maren-Kea Freese. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2798 Les militants de Droits de l’homme ont invité vendredi l’Egypte, pays hôte du sommet de l’Union Africaine (UA), à ratifier, sans tarder, le protocole de la Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples, dans son volet genre. Des activistes de plusieurs organisations de la société civile ont estimé que le sommet de Sharm El Sheikh, devrait être une bonne opportunité pour l’Egypte, de ratifier la Charte adoptée, depuis 5 ans, par la Commission de l’UA. Parmi ces organisations, on note le « Centre pour la participation des citoyens de l’Union Africaine » (CPC-UA), « Sauver le Darfour » et le « Réseau des femmes du Liberia, pour la paix » (WOLPNET). Una Kumba Thompson, dirigeante du WOLPNET a confié à APA que les organisations faisaient pression pour que la question des droits de l’homme soit abordée au sommet de l’UA, à Sharm el Sheikh. http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2797