"'Honour' brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. The authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against women, focusing largely on 'honour killings' and interference with the right to choice in marriage, and the related use and legal treatment of the defence of 'honour' and 'provocation' in different countries of Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. This timely book is distinctive in approach and content, highlighting activist and practice-orientated academic perspectives from both the South and the North." "The authors give voice to the struggle to locate 'crimes of honour' firmly within the international framework of violence against women and human rights, rather than positioning these abuses as specific to particular cultures or communities. The first of its kind, this book serves as a resource in addressing 'honour crimes' and, more broadly, violence against women, and will be of interest to a multi-disciplinary academic audience as well as to lawyers, policy-makers and activists."--BOOK JACKET.

United Nations, approaches to 'crimes of honour' / Jane Connors -- 'Crimes of honour', value and meaning / Purna Sen -- The role of 'community discourse' in combating 'crimes of honour' : preliminary assessment and prospects / Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im -- 'Honour killings' and the law in Pakistan / Sohail Akbar Warraich -- Murders of women in Lebanon : 'crimes of honour' between reality and the law / Danielle Hoyek, Rafif Rida Sidawi, and Amira Abou Mrad -- 'Crimes of honour' as violence against women in Egypt / Centre for Egyptian Women's Legal Assistance -- Researching women's victimisation in Palestine : a socio-legal analysis / Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian -- Culture, national minority, and the state : working against the 'crime of family honour' within the Palestinian community in Israel / Aida Touma-Sliman -- Changing the rules? Developments on 'crimes of honour' in Jordan / Reem Abu Hassan and Lynn Welchman -- Honour-based violence among the Kurds : the case of Iraqi Kurdistan / Nazand Begikhani -- 'Crimes of honour' in the Italian penal code : an analysis of history and reform / Maria Gabriella Bettiga-Boukerbout -- The 'legitimate defence of honour', or murder with impunity? A critical study of legislation and case law in Latin America / Silvia Pimentel, Valeŕia Pandjiarjian, and Juliana Belloque -- 'There is no "honour" in domestic violence, only shame!" Women's struggles against 'honour' crimes in the UK / Hannana Siddiqui -- Of consent and contradiction : forced marriages in Bangladesh / Dina M. Siddiqi -- From fathers to husbands : of love, death, and marriage in North India / Uma Chakravarti -- Tackling forced marriages in the Nordic countries : between women's rights and immigration control / Anja Bredal

Includes bibliographical references and index.