{"id":1077,"date":"2016-03-01T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:04:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T15:04:06","slug":"oscars-2016-winning-filmmaker-gives-powerful-speech-about-honour-killings-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/oscars-2016-winning-filmmaker-gives-powerful-speech-about-honour-killings-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2016: Winning filmmaker gives powerful speech about honour killings in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_first-letter\">F<\/span>ilmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy made a powerful speech at the #Oscars last night, after winning the award for best documentary short.\u00a0But rather than using the platform to gush thanks,\u00a0Obaid-Chinoy took the chance to speak out about the topic of her film: #honourkillings.<\/p>\n<p>The practice\u00a0&#8211; where men kill their own female family members for \u2018dishonouring\u2019 them, typically by having relationships they disapprove of\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0is particularly common in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Obaid-Chinoy\u2019s film<em> A Girl In The River: The Price of Forgiveness\u00a0<\/em>shines a light on such killings. It tells\u00a0the story of Saba Qaiser, a real young woman in Pakistan who survived attempted murder by her father and uncle after she married someone they felt &#8216;dishonoured&#8217; the family.<\/p>\n<p>Her film has garnered international attention, leading officials in Pakistan to promise they will work to end the illegal practice.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/life\/oscars-2016-winning-filmmaker-gives-powerful-speech-about-honour\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/life\/oscars-2016-winning-filmmaker-gives-powerful-speech-about-honour\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy made a powerful speech at the #Oscars last night, after winning the award for best documentary short.\u00a0But rather than using the platform to gush thanks,\u00a0Obaid-Chinoy took the chance to speak out about the topic of her film: #honourkillings. The practice\u00a0&#8211; where men kill their own female family members for \u2018dishonouring\u2019 them, typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[388,7,3,8,10,386,389,387],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-a-girl-in-the-river","tag-forced-marriage","tag-haloproject","tag-honour","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-oscar","tag-saba-qaiser","tag-sharmeen-obaid-chinoy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1905,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}