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KWRW NEWS:

Roundup of reports on honour-based violence in Kurdistan Region - 08/07/2007

KWRW calls on police to investigate circumstances led to Banaz’s murder - 15/06/2007

Updates on current cases in Iraqi Kurdistan Region - 12/06/2007

After Do’a, another woman beaten and murdered - 24/05/2007

Report on London open forum discussing honour-crime - 10/05/2007

An Open Forum: ‘Honour’-based Violence and Women’s Rights in Kurdistan - 04/05/2007

KWRW condemns the stoning of teenage Yezidi girl in Kurdistan - 27/04/2007

Kurdish Women’s Rights Watch (KWRW) launches its website - 08/03/2007

 

Welcome to KWRW (Kurdish Women's Rights Watch), an organisation dedicated to supporting and promoting women's rights in the Kurdish community, whether in Kurdistan or in the diaspora. KWRW also incorporates KWAHK (Kurdish Women: Action against Honour Killing), an honour-based violence campaign within the organisation. We are a UK-based network, with members and supporters in many different countries.

This site provides information about our current activities and plans, and monitors news and other items for material relevant to our campaigns. We hope you find it useful, and we welcome feedback and support.

Latest Artilces


’These brutal, pre-meditated acts of violence are anything but honourable
18/12/2009  Aisha Gill: Commentary
Honour killings are anything but honourable. They are brutal, premeditated acts of violence perpetrated by the very people who are supposed to protect the victim from harm. The United Nations Populati

Tell us where she’s buried, honour killing sister pleads
18/12/2009  The Times, Helen Nugent
Tulay Goren was 15 when she disappeared The sister of a teenage girl who was murdered by her father to protect his family’s “honour” pleaded with him to reveal the whereabouts of her body after he wa

Tell us where she’s buried, honour killing sister pleads
18/12/2009  The Times, Helen Nugent
Tulay Goren was 15 when she disappeared The sister of a teenage girl who was murdered by her father to protect his family’s “honour” pleaded with him to reveal the whereabouts of her body after he wa

Father guilty of Tulay Goren ’honour killing’
17/12/2009  BBC
father has been found guilty of murdering his 15-year-old daughter in a so-called honour killing. Schoolgirl Tulay Goren disappeared in 1999 after having a relationship with a man who her family d

Honour case man’s ’death threat’
02/11/2009  BBC
The father of an alleged "honour killing" victim threatened to kill her the day before she disappeared, the girl’s sister has told a court. Tulay Goren, 15, went missing in Woodford Green, n

Honour case man’s ’death threat’
02/11/2009  BBC
Tulay Goren, 15, disappeared in January 1999 The father of an alleged "honour killing" victim threatened to kill her the day before she disappeared, the girl’s sister has told a court.

’Be a man and tell the truth’: Mother pleads with husband to ’admit honour killing’ of daughter
22/10/2009  Lucy Ballinger - MailOnline
A woman demanded her husband ’be a man’ and admit to the murder of their teenage daughter ten years ago in an alleged honour killing. Tulay Goren, 15, went missing in 1999 after falling in love wit

’Honour killing’ mother’s court outburst
21/10/2009  By Channel 4 News
The mother of alleged "honour killing" victim, Tulay Goren, faced her husband in court and asks him to explain her daughter’s disappearance. Mehmet Goren denies murdering his 15-year

Father ’tied up’ honour case girl
20/10/2009  BBC
The mother of an alleged "honour killing" victim has told a court her husband tied the girl up a day before she is said to have been murdered. Mehmet Goren, 49, denies murdering Tulay Gore

Honour case man ’beat daughter’
19/10/2009  BBC
A father accused of murdering his daughter in a so-called "honour killing" beat her up badly, his wife has told the Old Bailey. Mehmet Goren, 49, denies killing Tulay Goren, 15, from Woodf
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