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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 45 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Honour killings take many forms, including direct murder; stoning; women and young girls being forced to commit suicide after public denunciations of their behaviour; and women being disfigured by acid burns, leading to death. Honour crimes are also linked to other forms of family violence, and are usually committed by male family members as a means of controlling women's sexual choices and limiting their freedom of movement. Punishment usually has a collective dimension, with the family as a whole believing it to be injured by a woman's actual or perceived behaviour, and is often public in character. The visibility of the issue and the punishment also serves a social objective, namely, influencing the conduct of other women. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 43 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | As noted by the Secretary-General, certain cultural norms and beliefs are the causal factors of harmful practices resulting in violence against women, such as crimes committed in the name of "honour". Honour killings have been characterized as being among the most severe manifestations of harmful practices. Murder to cleanse family honour is committed with high levels of impunity in many parts of the world. Although honour crimes have mainly occurred in the vast zone spreading from the Sahara to the Himalayas, it also occurs in other regions and countries with migrant communities. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress 2011, para. 25 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | The mandate has identified two main categories of violence against women in the family sphere: domestic violence and harmful and degrading practices that are violent to and/or subordinate women, whether justified on the basis of religious, customary or other societal laws and practices. The mandate has adopted a broad definition of the family that encompasses intimate-partner and interpersonal relationships, including non-cohabitating partners, previous partners and domestic workers. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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Continuum of violence against women from the home to the transnational sphere: the challenges of effective redress 2011, para. 31 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Many women are subjected to violence by their husbands, but also by their husbands' families. For examples, in countries where "bride price/dowry" is still practised, spouses and in-law family members believe they have purchased the bride and are therefore entitled to subject their "property" to violence and other forms of ill-treatment. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 38 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | A study in Zimbabwe found that of the 42 cases of femicide involving women older than 50, most of the women had been accused of witchcraft by male relatives prior to the killing. A study conducted in Ghana found that many poor, often elderly, women were accused of witchcraft and subsequently murdered by male relatives, or subjected to a range of physical, sexual and economic abuses. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 44 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Honour killings remain underreported and underdocumented globally. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has estimated that 5,000 women globally are murdered by family members each year in honour killings. With widespread urbanization, the proliferation of media and the changing roles of women, it has become difficult for such crimes to go unnoticed, and such killings are becoming more visible. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 74 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | Stigmatization, social alienation and feelings of shame and guilt may also contribute to hindering reintegration. Stigma and the loss of certain rights are a challenge to re-establishing relationships and social ties. Family and community support is critical to successful reintegration, and also to decreasing the chance of recidivism. | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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Gender-related killings of women 2012, para. 56 | Aug 19, 2019 | Paragraph | In some South Asian countries, a widespread practice is that of dowry-related murders. This term covers the deaths of young brides who are murdered, or driven to suicide by continuous harassment and torture perpetrated by the groom's family in an effort to extort dowry payment or an increased dowry of cash or goods. The most common manifestation of this practice is the burning of the bride. These incidents are often presented as, and accepted to be, accidents, such as death as a result of an "exploding stove". | Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences | Special Procedures' report |
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