Kurdish Women Action Against Honour Killing (KWAHK) is a network of Kurdish and non-Kurdish
activists, lawyers and academic researchers.
It was established in March 2000 in London. Its formation coincided with the first international
Women’s Day in the third millennium. It started with an important gathering of the Kurdish community
in London; more than 500 women and men came together to celebrate the launch of this organization,
with its slogan
“No Honour in Murder”.
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Female Genital Mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan
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27/03/2006 Wadi e. V.
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Presentation to the conference: 1ère Journée Humanitaire sur la Santé des Femmes dans le Monde organized by Gynécologie sans Frontières, Paris May 8th 2006
By: Sandra Strobel and Thomas v. der Ost More..
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Was Banaz ’killed for honour’?
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11/02/2006 KurdishMedia.com
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Police are searching for the body of a Mitcham woman who they believe may have been the victim of an honour killing.
Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha, 20, was last seen at 5.50pm on January 23, in Cricket More..
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Kurdish man charged in Sweden with honour killing
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19/01/2006 KurdishMedia.com
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A 59 year old man has appeared at Norrköping district court accused of the 'honour killing' of a 13 year old girl in Iraq in 2001.
The man has been the subject of an international arrest warrant s More..
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Turks sentence 2 in ’honor killing’
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01/11/2005 Associated Press - By SUZAN FRASER
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ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish court on Friday convicted two brothers for the "honor killing" of their sister and sentenced one to life in prison and the other to more than 11 years behind bars.
Guldunya More..
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Specail Report: For family honor, she had to die
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18/10/2005 Chicago Tribune
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For family honor, she had to die
European police weren't looking for this kind of violence steeped in tradition. They are now.
By Christine Spolar
Tribune foreign correspondent
LONDON -- They More..
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Turks to fight ’honor killings’ of women
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17/05/2005 The New York Times - By Sebnem Arsu
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ISTANBUL, May 15 - In a nondescript building in a remote part of Istanbul, a young woman sat in front of a television on a recent day watching a chilling scene unfold. Panning across the dank walls of More..
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