{"id":564,"date":"2014-05-12T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2014-05-12T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:48:51","slug":"confused-by-honour-killings-find-out-what-its-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/confused-by-honour-killings-find-out-what-its-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused by honour killings? Find out what it’s all about"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you\u2019ve been exposed to it, honour-based violence can be quite a complicated issue to understand. Maybe you\u2019ve read about the victims in the newspapers or seen something about it on TV, so you know a bit about what\u2019s involved. But by its nature, honour-based violence is something that happens behind closed doors and isn\u2019t openly spoken about. Here\u2019s\u00a0Cosmo<\/em>\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0guide to the facts \u2013 what it is, why it\u2019s happening, and why something needs to be done to stop it.<\/p>\n

So what exactly is honour<\/strong>–<\/strong>based violence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honour-based violence (HBV) is the name given to horrific acts of violence on women carried out by their own families in the name of protecting the family\u2019s \u2018honour\u2019. For doing things most of us take for granted \u2013 like having a boyfriend your family doesn\u2019t necessarily approve of, asking for a divorce or dressing in a Western style \u2013 some women are murdered, beaten, and subjected to acid attacks, all at the hands of their parents, siblings, and husbands.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s awful \u2013 why would their families do this?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s all to do with the idea of honour. Honour is connected to the women in a family – they\u2019re told that it is their job to protect it. The only way a woman can protect it, though, is to do exactly what others expect of her, which means dressing in a certain way, only hanging out with the \u2018right\u2019 people and marrying the \u2018right\u2019 man \u2013 regardless of what the woman herself wants. If she veers at all from this strict path, she is said to have dishonoured her family and it is \u2018honourable\u2019 for them to kill her. In these families, death is often considered preferable to divorce.<\/p>\n

While honour can bind families together, it can also be used as a tool to oppress women and keep them in line. Mothers are just as likely to perpetrate honour-based crimes if they have been brought up in this culture. Often, the people who carry out these terrible crimes show no remorse \u2013 this is because they genuinely believe what they have done is good and right.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.co.uk\/lifestyle\/big-issue\/cosmo-reports\/honour-killings-the-facts#ixzz31Wq6jHNP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless you\u2019ve been exposed to it, honour-based violence can be quite a complicated issue to understand. Maybe you\u2019ve read about the victims in the newspapers or seen something about it on TV, so you know a bit about what\u2019s involved. But by its nature, honour-based violence is something that happens behind closed doors and isn\u2019t […]<\/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":[34,7,4,8,10,31],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-abusive","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-honour","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-victims"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}