April 6, 2009 News - War on Women = R.E.A.L.

April 7 Capitol Rally Against "Honor" Killings - DC Capitol Reflecting Pool 4-6 PM
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/04/april-7/

Jordanian man charged with killing sister in honor crime
-- " the man confessed to repeatedly stabbing his 22-year-old sister
to cleanse the family honor because she left the house too often"
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562920327&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Pakistan) Study Finds Honor Killings a Major Portion of Pakistan's Homicides
-- "One in every five homicides in Pakistan is a so-called 'honor killing,'
according to a new epidemiological study published in the European Journal of Public Health."
-- Dr. Muazzam Nasrullah: "this is often conducted by brothers or fathers"
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/health/jan-june09/pakistan_0406.html

(Pakistan) Sindh's Sukkur: Husband chops off wife’s nose on alleged infidelity
http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=73899

Pakistan Supreme Court seeks detailed report on girl's flogging in Swat
-- Attorney General Latif Khosa "said the flogging incident was bogus
and presented Chand Bibi's statement before a magistrate, in which she denied that she had been lashed."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\04\07\story_7-4-2009_pg1_4

(Pakistan) NWFP: Pakistani Teen Purportedly Shown in Flogging Video Now Says It Never Happened
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512785,00.html
-- "She requested the judge and the commissioner to spare her from appearing in the court in Islamabad"
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Now-Pak-girl-denies-being-flogged-by-Taliban/articleshow/4364713.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/opinions/4364713.cms#top2
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=21357

(Pakistan) NWFP: The Pakistani Spectator states "Don't Criticize Islamic Punishments" - by Haris Hashmi
-- regarding Taliban whipping of 17 year old girl
-- The Pakistani Spectator: "Flogging and canning the males and females
according to the Shariah Law is very much right and we cannot call it 'barbaric'
or such thing. That is equivalent to insult the Islam and to negate its teachings."
http://www.pakspectator.com/dont-critcize-islamic-punishments/
-- TPS can be contacted at ghazala.khi@gmail.com

(Afghanistan) Taleban-style law for women in Afghanistan is dropped after outcry
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6047263.ece
-- Afghanistan 'rape' law puts women's rights front and center
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/afghanistan.law/index.html?section=cnn_latest
-- President Obama Calls New Women-Oppressing Afghan Law "Abhorrent" -- But Suggests It Won't Change US Mission
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/04/president-oba-4.html

Do We Justify the Most Brutal Murders by Calling Them 'Honor Killings'? by Margaret Calhoun Hemenway
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2926/pub_detail.asp

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