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    Human Rights Watch Seeks Law Against Honour Killings

    Human Rights Watch seeks law against honour killings IANS, Jul 19, 2010, 03.47pm IST <!-- google_ad_section_start -->NEW DELHI: A global human rights organisation on Monday appealed to the central government to enact strict laws to check honour killings and ensure prosecution of those...
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    In India, Castes, Honor And Killings Intertwine

    In India, Castes, Honor and Killings Intertwine KODERMA, India — When Nirupama Pathak left this remote mining region for graduate school in New Delhi, she seemed to be leaving the old India for the new. Her parents paid her tuition and did not resist when she wanted to choose her own career...
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    Legal Govt Gets Cold Feet On Honour Killings Bill

    Govt gets cold feet on honour killings Bill - India News - IBNLive New Delhi: With the Union Cabinet divided over stricter punishment to honour killers, the decision to introduce a bill in the Parliament in the monsoon session for amending the IPC was deferred on Thursday. The Cabinet...
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    Honour Cast Away ("There Would Be No Honor Killings. " TEHELKA)

    Honour cast away There would be no honour killings if India were a casteless society, says UDIT RAJ Khushboo and Shobha, two sisters from Wazirpur in Delhi, were shot dead by their own brother. Monika Chaudhary, from the same village, also married a boy from another caste – and though both...
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    Honour Killings: Young Indians Defy Outdated Taboos

    Honour killings: Young Indians defy outdated taboos IANS Tuesday, 06 July 2010 By Shilpa Raina NEW DELHI: Sixty-five-year-old Suhkdev Singh Darswal, a Rajput, is a happy man. His four daughters have settled down with men of their choice, making their family as diverse as India is as a...
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    India Caste Killings: The Role Of Property

    Caste killings: The role of property New Delhi: Gaurav Saini has been running from pillar to post for the past one year in desperate search for the woman he loves, and married, against her family's wishes. Just days after their secret wedding in July last year, Gaurav - who belongs to a...
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    More Than 1000 Honour Killings In India Every Year: Experts

    More than 1000 honour killings in India every year: Experts PTI, Jul 4, 2010, 02.20pm IST LONDON: More than 1,000 young people in India have been done to death every year owing to 'Honour Killings' linked to forced marriages and the country needs to introduce stringent legislation to deal...
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    General International Campaign To Stop Honour Killings In India

    TAKE ACTION : CAMPAIGN AGAINST HONOUR KILLINGS IN INDIA - KADYAN KHAP INTERNATIONAL... Targeting: Hon'ble Sardar Manmohan Singh (Prime Minister of India, New Delhi) Started by: Abhishek Kadyan International...
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    Canada Dosangh Speaks The Truth About Honour Killings (National Post Editorial)

    In April, Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh said Sikh extremism is on the rise in some parts of Canada, and blamed it on “politically correct” Canadians who let it happen. It sounded incredible to hear the words at the time, but then again his comments were tempered by the fact that he was beaten...
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    Honour Killings Have Become Commonplace In Punjab

    source: http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/honour-killing-claims-two-lives-punjab Honour killings have become commonplace in Punjab. Wednesday, 12 May 2010 AMRITSAR: In another case of 'honour killing', a woman was murdered Wednesday in Punjab's Tarn Taran district by her family for...
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    Controversial Judge Calls For New Law To Deal With Honour Killings

    Judge calls for new law to deal with honour killings Judge calls for new law to deal with honour killings - India - The Times of India CHANDIGARH: The woman judge who awarded death penalty to five for the brutal murder of Manoj and Babli, a young couple who had married in breach of...
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    Arts/Society Shining A Light On Honour Killings' Dark Corner

    source: TheStar.com - Canada - Shining a light on honour killings' dark corner Shining a light on honour killings' dark corner HANDOUT, VANCOUVER PROVINCE/THE CANADIAN PRESS PICTURE ARCHIVE (left), FACEBOOK Amandeep Atwal, left, was killed by her father; Aqsa Parvez's father and brother...
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    Honour Killings

    Summary "Honour" killings of women can be defined as acts of murder in which "a woman is killed for her actual or perceived immoral behavior." (Yasmeen Hassan, "The Fate of Pakistani Women," International Herald Tribune, May 25, 1999.) Such "immoral behavior" may take the form of marital...
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    Sikh News BJP Invokes Punjab 'killings' To Counter Fake Encounter Issue (Hindustan Times)

    In an apparent move to counter Congress on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh issue, posters have surfaced at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi talking about the alleged extra-judicial killing of Sikhs in Congress-ruled Punjab two decades ago. More...
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    Sikh News BJP Invokes Punjab Killings To Counter Sohrabuddin Issue (rediff.com)

    Posters talking about the alleged extra-judicial killing of Sikhs in Congress-ruled Punjab two decades ago have surfaced at the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi. More...
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    Sikh News BJP Invokes Punjab 'killings' To Counter Fake Encounter Issue (Outlook India)

    In an apparent move to counter Congress on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh issue, posters have surfaced at the BJP headquarters here talking about the alleged extra-judicial killing of Sikhs in Congress-ruled Punjab two decades ago. More...
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    Sikh News Life Term For Honour Killings (The Telegraph)

    New Delhi, Oct. 9 : The Supreme Court today condemned honour killings but stopped short of handing out the death penalty to the relatives of a Sikh girl who wiped out the family of her lower-caste husband in 1999. More...
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    Sikh News Over 1,700 Honour Killings In 5 Years Reported In Pak's Punjab (ANI Via Yahoo! India

    Islamabad, Aug 12 (ANI): Over 1, 707 honour killings have been reported in Punjab Province of Pakistan from 1997 to 2003, making the province a leader in regard to gender-related violence. It was reported in 'The Concept of Justice in Islam- Qisas and Diayt Laww', prepared by the National...
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    State-sponsored Terrorism, Extra Judicial Killings! Is Police Above Prosecution

    The government itself has revealed that it has been involved in human rights violations by rehabiltaion of police cats. First of all, let’s define what are police cats? There was a war like situation in 80’s in Punjab. The police used the infilteration of their own agents into the militant...
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    State-sponsored Terrorism, Extra Judicial Killings! Is Police Above Prosecution

    The government itself has revealed that it has been involved in human rights violations by rehabiltaion of police cats. First of all, let’s define what are police cats? There was a war like situation in 80’s in Punjab. The police used the infilteration of their own agents into the militant...
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