{"id":1176,"date":"2017-01-31T22:26:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2017-01-31T22:26:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:26:36","slug":"mp-nusrat-ghani-bids-to-ban-honour-killing-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/mp-nusrat-ghani-bids-to-ban-honour-killing-term\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Nusrat Ghani bids to ban &#8216;honour killing&#8217; term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">An MP is attempting to ban authorities from describing murders as &#8220;honour killings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Nusrat Ghani said the term was used by abusers as a &#8220;pathetic self-justification&#8221; for their violence.<\/p>\n<p>She proposed a bill in the House of Commons that would ban the use of the description in official publications.<\/p>\n<p>The move would make it clear that &#8220;cultural and religious sensitivities are not a barrier to justice&#8221;, the MP for Wealden in East Sussex said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-38813589\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-38813589<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An MP is attempting to ban authorities from describing murders as &#8220;honour killings&#8221;. Conservative Nusrat Ghani said the term was used by abusers as a &#8220;pathetic self-justification&#8221; for their violence. She proposed a bill in the House of Commons that would ban the use of the description in official publications. The move would make it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","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=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}