Mohammed, who co-founded and directed the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was rushed to hospital where she perished ...

Honor killings in Pakistan constitute an ongoing human rights crisis rooted in entrenched patriarchal traditions, impunity of perpetrators, and weak law enforcement mechanisms. While reported numbers ...

A Bakersfield man who was serving a life sentence in prison for killing his daughter-in-law in a self-described "honor ...

In the West, “an institutional reluctance to name the motive” in honor killings yields disaster, warns Kevin Cohen at The Wall Street Journal. In the Netherlands, a Syrian refugee father and two ...

A Jordanian immigrant on death row lodged complaints against the seasoned Houston lawyers who handled his 2018 capital murder trial for their role in eliminating nearly all prospective jurors who were ...

Islamabad - Pakistan passed long-awaited legislation Thursday closing a loophole that allowed people who killed for "honor" to walk free, three months after the murder of a social media star by her ...

Fattu Shah is a remote village in the north of Pakistan's Sindh province. The drive from the nearest city, Ghotki, takes over an hour. The road narrows as it cuts through cotton fields and winds ...

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Long-awaited legislation was finally passed three months later in a move cautiously hailed by women's rights activists. The shocking murder of Pakistani social media star Qandeel Baloch by her brother ...