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Thanks for your note and I'm
sure that your work on honor
killings will go a long way
toward educating your classmates
about the realities of how this
is one way women continue to
be discriminated against. The
basic premise behind honor killings
is that a woman has done something
to cause her family shame--that
is--ask for a divorce, be thirty
and single, have an affair.
Basically, anything the family
deems "inproper"--even if all
of it was brought on by her
husband's inproper activities.
The family then kills the woman--and
it feels it is justified in
this killing because she has
caused her family "shame."
Many of these crimes happen
in the Middle East and in parts
of Asia famously in Jordan,
where a young journalist Rafit
Hussan (I think), has worked
to expose these crimes for what
they are. She was honored with
a Reebok Human Rights Award
for this work.
There is also a special airing
on Cinemax soon called "Crimes
of Honor," which focuses on
such killings. There are also
groups working to combat this
reality--such as Equality
NOW, and Sisterhood
Is Global. I hope that helps
-- good luck.
—Amy
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