Honor Killing Essay

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"Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person. Men and women of full age without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry or to have a family. They entitled to equal rights as to marriage and its dissolution. Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the attending spouses. The family is the natural and fundamental group, unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and state." Honour killing, in some societies, means the executing of a relative, particularly a young lady or a lady, who is seen to have brought shame to the family. Honour Killing, is the murder of a part of a family or social gathering by different parts, because of the culprits' conviction, that the victimized person has brought disgrace or shame upon the family or group, typically for reasons like declining to enter a masterminded marriage, having intercourse outside marriage, turning into the casualty of assault, dressing in ways which are considered improper, or participating in gay person relations. Honour killings are particularly focused against ladies and gay people. The ideas of honour and disgrace and their utilization as legitimization for brutality and murdering are not remarkable to any one society or religion. Surely, respect and honour-based roughness are reflected in recorded occasions in numerous nations, and in numerous works of writing. For example, dueling was a key practice through which claims of manly respect were made, administered and saw in Western social orders. In France, Le Cid recounted the story of a man offended by a slap over the face, which asked his child to safeguard his honour in a duel. In Canada, dueling proceeded into the l... ... middle of paper ... ... a number of steps to ensure the eradication of this atrocity, some of which include the making of new up to date laws in this particular areas, starting awareness programs and finally setting up of support services such as women protection shelters. Such changes are a sign that things need to change at least with respect to countries like Pakistan. People living in areas where honour has ultimate importance, can accept to stand at the justification of this atrocity. The practice itself is not one which is more concerned with the actions of the women rather it is concerned with the publicity of her actions. Such is the very nature of humans, who take life just in name of honour without realizing that the reason for which a life was taken still lives on in the general public, and the death of the alleged affairee does not change a thing.

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