Pakistan: Cultural Cruelties: Confronting honour killings

Submitted by wluml on Thu, 10/28/2004 - 23:00

Pakistan
Violence against women
[violence] honour crimes

Source:

Asian Centre for Human Rights - ACHR

The Pakistan government bulldozed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2004 against “honour killings” in the National Assembly and adopted it on 26 October 2004 without any debate amidst opposition walkout.

Website Link:

http://www.achrweb.org/Review/44-04.htm