A short webinar on how 'honour'-based violence fits into the broader category of violence against women/

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Questions of
‘honour’
HBV as a form of violence
against women
Joanne Payton. HBVA, IKWRO and Cardiff University

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Violence against women
Violence against women is defined as
‘violence that is directed against a woman
because she is a woman or that affects
women disproportionately. It includes acts
that inflict physical, mental or sexual harm or
suffering, threats of such acts, coercion and
other deprivations of liberty.’
Convention to End Discrimination Against Women, General recom. 19(a)

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Variance in intimate partner violence
Women physically  The rate of intimate partner
attacked by spouses (%) violence against American females
60 declined 53% between 1993 and
2008, from 9.4 victimizations per
50 1,000 females age 12 or older to
40 4.3 per 1,000.
30  Against males, the rate declined
20 54%, from 1.8 victimizations per
1,000 males age 12 or older to 0.8
10 per 1,000.
0
 Similar declines for Canada and
Europe
Kishor, S. and K. Johnson. 2004. Profiling Domestic Bureau of Justice Statistics
Violence: A Multi-country http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=971
Study, Calverton, Maryland.

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Violence against women across the
life cycle
Stage Form of violence
Infancy Infanticide/sex selective abortion; psychological and physical abuse;
differential access to food and medical care
Childhood Female genital cutting; incest and sexual abuse; psychological abuse;
differential access to food, medical care, and education; prostitution;
trafficking; school-related gender-based violence
Adolescence Dating and courtship violence; economically coerced sex; sexual abuse
in the workplace; rape; sexual harassment; forced prostitution;
trafficking; psychological abuse; forced marriage; dowry abuse;
retribution for the crimes of others
Reproductive Intimate partner abuse; marital rape; dowry abuse; honour killings;
age partner homicide; psychological abuse; sexual abuse in the workplace;
abuse of women with disabilities; forced prostitution; trafficking
Old age Widow abuse; elderly abuse; rape; neglect
Heise, L. 1994. Violence Against Women: The Hidden Health Burden. World Bank Discussion Paper, Washington, DC.

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Violence against women by
perpetrator group
Female
Family
infanticide/
sex-selective
abortion Differential
Intimate partner
Differential access to
access to food/medical
food/medical care State violence
Others
care Violence in Sexual trafficking
Female genital pregnancy
Street
mutilation Psychological harassment
Forced/child abuse by
Workplace
marriage intimate partner
harassment
Coerced Physical & sexual
Stranger rape
sex/rape violence (current
or former
Child abuse partner)
Psychological
abuse by family
members
Dowry murders
Honour killings
Adapted from Watts, C & Zimmerman, C. 2002. Violence against women: global
scope and magnitude The Lancet. Vol 359

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Honour-based violence: distinctive
features
Victims Perpetrators Community
Young women
Victim’s own Pressure to
and teenage
family act/approval
girls
May have no Lack of co-
Collectivity/
history of operation with
Collaboration
physical abuse CCJ system
Premeditation

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Building strategies;
planning protection
Efforts to combat HBV, and to protect
potential victims, must be based in an
understanding of its nature as a distinctive
category of violence against women.

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Joanne Payton
Information and Research Officer
Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation
www.ikwro.org.uk
www.stophonourkillings.com
joanne.payton@gmail.com
paytonjl@cf.ac.uk
07892 679472